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I got this mail today & heres a list of their hobby mags that are part
of their blackFriday Magazine sale , some of ya may be interested
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I tried Home Shop Machinist again last year and am letting it drop.? Not a lot in it and what is there often isn't well written.? I used to subscribe and it was pretty good back then.? I see Model Engineer's Workshop in this list.? Anyone have any experience with it?? Looking for something with small lathe/mill projects.
Dave
I got this mail today & heres a list of their hobby mags that are part
of their blackFriday Magazine sale , some of ya may be interested
|
If you're looking for a specific project, or type of project, none of the magazines are really that good unless you just uck out. If you want to learn about new or different techniques, any of them are good. For newbies, anyway.?
If you've been a tool and die maker for 50 years they may not have anything for you. I haven't renewed my subscriptions this year because I'm currently too broke. When I get that taken care of, I will be renewing both HSM & MW. When I can find them, I buy the English publications, too.
Model Engineer & Model Engineers Workshop are different. ME is mostly specifically about model trains. MEW is? closer to MW in that it's more general machining. Still slanted to model trains, but a goodly bunch of techniques that can also be used elsewhere, and machines to help you do all the machining you want.?
I had formal training as a machinist, but have not worked in the field. Did because I wanted to be able to make anything that I want. Still have a great deal to learn. YMMV!
Bill in OKC?
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY!
Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Monday, November 25, 2024 at 04:50:53 PM CST, David Matthews via groups.io <n36078@...> wrote:
I tried Home Shop Machinist again last year and am letting it drop.? Not a lot in it and what is there often isn't well written.? I used to subscribe and it was pretty good back then.? I see Model Engineer's Workshop in this list.? Anyone have any experience with it?? Looking for something with small lathe/mill projects.
Dave
I got this mail today & heres a list of their hobby mags that are part
of their blackFriday Magazine sale , some of ya may be interested
|
Thanks, Mike! I needed to see that right now!?
One more thing. Maybe I need to buy a lottery ticke after all...
:)
Bill in OKC?
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY!
Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Monday, November 25, 2024 at 04:27:02 PM CST, mike allen <animal@...> wrote:
I got this mail today & heres a list of their hobby mags that are part
of their blackFriday Magazine sale , some of ya may be interested
|
I bought both those mags from the same publisher for a while
& out of the 35-40 I have in a stack I never found anything
that even remotely interested me . I subscribe to Model Engineer's
Workshop , I get teh digital copy . I just renewed my script last
again nite? . The English mag got to me cause there seems to be a
lot more machining articles & not things like how to build a
yard cart cause their out of things to write about .? There's a
lot more good articles in the 2-3 years that I've subscribed then
all the years I bought the other 2 mags . The English blokes? seem
to take the hobby machining hobby pretty serious . They have their
own? forum with probably at least a couple thousand hours of
experience between members . I just looked at the October issue
& it has I believe 11or 12 articles & that's without the
regular columns . The Barns & Noble in Reno carries it so I
imagine the the other Barns would too . I've been real happy with
my $$ spent on this mag .
YMMV
animal
On 11/25/24 2:50 PM, David Matthews via
groups.io wrote:
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Show quoted text
I tried Home Shop Machinist again last year and am letting
it drop.? Not a lot in it and what is there often isn't well
written.? I used to subscribe and it was pretty good back
then.? I see Model Engineer's Workshop in this list.? Anyone
have any experience with it?? Looking for something with small
lathe/mill projects.
Dave
I
got this mail today & heres a list of their hobby mags
that are part
of their blackFriday Magazine sale , some of ya may be
interested
|
Looking for general techniques and projects.? Mostly to use as starting points for my own designs.? I decided that learning by YouTube wasn't the best way to go so I took a couple manual machining courses at a community college.? It is free to audit public college courses in NY if you are over 60.? It was taught by two retired machinists and I learned a ton.? I also ended up with a bunch of tooling and fixtures that I made in class.
Dave
If you're looking for a specific project, or type of project, none of the magazines are really that good unless you just uck out. If you want to learn about new or different techniques, any of them are good. For newbies, anyway.?
If you've been a tool and die maker for 50 years they may not have anything for you. I haven't renewed my subscriptions this year because I'm currently too broke. When I get that taken care of, I will be renewing both HSM & MW. When I can find them, I buy the English publications, too.
Model Engineer & Model Engineers Workshop are different. ME is mostly specifically about model trains. MEW is? closer to MW in that it's more general machining. Still slanted to model trains, but a goodly bunch of techniques that can also be used elsewhere, and machines to help you do all the machining you want.?
I had formal training as a machinist, but have not worked in the field. Did because I wanted to be able to make anything that I want. Still have a great deal to learn. YMMV!
Bill in OKC?
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY!
Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Monday, November 25, 2024 at 04:50:53 PM CST, David Matthews via <n36078= [email protected]> wrote:
I tried Home Shop Machinist again last year and am letting it drop.? Not a lot in it and what is there often isn't well written.? I used to subscribe and it was pretty good back then.? I see Model Engineer's Workshop in this list.? Anyone have any experience with it?? Looking for something with small lathe/mill projects.
Dave
I got this mail today & heres a list of their hobby mags that are part
of their blackFriday Magazine sale , some of ya may be interested
|
Yeah, and those guys push small machines to the outer limited, too! I've got electronic copies of a bunch of the early ME. But I'm not a model train guy. Dad fixed that for me when I was young. Model Engineers Workshop still has some stuff on model trains, but it's also lot more general. Got electronic copies of the first 80 MEW, too. Want all the rest, as well. What's that about beer budget and champagne taste? Yup!
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY!
Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Monday, November 25, 2024 at 07:06:20 PM CST, mike allen <animal@...> wrote:
I bought both those mags from the same publisher for a while
& out of the 35-40 I have in a stack I never found anything
that even remotely interested me . I subscribe to Model Engineer's
Workshop , I get teh digital copy . I just renewed my script last
again nite? . The English mag got to me cause there seems to be a
lot more machining articles & not things like how to build a
yard cart cause their out of things to write about .? There's a
lot more good articles in the 2-3 years that I've subscribed then
all the years I bought the other 2 mags . The English blokes? seem
to take the hobby machining hobby pretty serious . They have their
own? forum with probably at least a couple thousand hours of
experience between members . I just looked at the October issue
& it has I believe 11or 12 articles & that's without the
regular columns . The Barns & Noble in Reno carries it so I
imagine the the other Barns would too . I've been real happy with
my $$ spent on this mag .
YMMV
animal
On 11/25/24 2:50 PM, David Matthews via
groups.io wrote:
I tried Home Shop Machinist again last year and am letting
it drop.? Not a lot in it and what is there often isn't well
written.? I used to subscribe and it was pretty good back
then.? I see Model Engineer's Workshop in this list.? Anyone
have any experience with it?? Looking for something with small
lathe/mill projects.
Dave
I
got this mail today & heres a list of their hobby mags
that are part
of their blackFriday Magazine sale , some of ya may be
interested
|
That sounds about where I was. Minor detail differences. I got a 7x10 mini-lathe first. Only thing I could lay hands on. Had what seemed like the usual troubles with them, but wasn't getting anywhere. Whined to SWMBO about it one day. She told me to take another class. Was excellent advise. Reason I wasn't getting anywhere was I wasn't getting consistent measurements.? Last class was in 1973. Got the lathe in 2008. Complained in late 2014. Started the new class in February 2015. Finally finished it in May of 2022. :) Slow learner, plus took as much advantage of the school machine as I could. Classes aren't free, but they had a tuition waiver for Desert Storm vets, and I qualified. Just had to buy the books and a 6" dial caliper. Got through the bookwork, found time to play with a set of gage blocks and my caliper & a micrometer and learned to be consistent.?
And played, and remade parts for grades until I was satisfied they were as near perfect as I could make them. Took quite a while. Happy I got the certificate,? happier I built up the skills. Though missed a few. When I started the class, we were supposed to learn to do heat treatment and surface grinding, but the older machinist retired before I got there. ? Opportunity cost. Oh well!
Bill in OKC?
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY!
Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Monday, November 25, 2024 at 08:05:57 PM CST, David Matthews via groups.io <n36078@...> wrote:
Looking for general techniques and projects.? Mostly to use as starting points for my own designs.? I decided that learning by YouTube wasn't the best way to go so I took a couple manual machining courses at a community college.? It is free to audit public college courses in NY if you are over 60.? It was taught by two retired machinists and I learned a ton.? I also ended up with a bunch of tooling and fixtures that I made in class.
Dave
If you're looking for a specific project, or type of project, none of the magazines are really that good unless you just uck out. If you want to learn about new or different techniques, any of them are good. For newbies, anyway.?
If you've been a tool and die maker for 50 years they may not have anything for you. I haven't renewed my subscriptions this year because I'm currently too broke. When I get that taken care of, I will be renewing both HSM & MW. When I can find them, I buy the English publications, too.
Model Engineer & Model Engineers Workshop are different. ME is mostly specifically about model trains. MEW is? closer to MW in that it's more general machining. Still slanted to model trains, but a goodly bunch of techniques that can also be used elsewhere, and machines to help you do all the machining you want.?
I had formal training as a machinist, but have not worked in the field. Did because I wanted to be able to make anything that I want. Still have a great deal to learn. YMMV!
Bill in OKC?
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY!
Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Monday, November 25, 2024 at 04:50:53 PM CST, David Matthews via <n36078= [email protected]> wrote:
I tried Home Shop Machinist again last year and am letting it drop.? Not a lot in it and what is there often isn't well written.? I used to subscribe and it was pretty good back then.? I see Model Engineer's Workshop in this list.? Anyone have any experience with it?? Looking for something with small lathe/mill projects.
Dave
I got this mail today & heres a list of their hobby mags that are part
of their blackFriday Magazine sale , some of ya may be interested
|
??? so how'd ya get the first 80 issues , on their website ?
??? thanks
animal
On 11/25/24 6:34 PM, Bill in OKC too
via groups.io wrote:
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Show quoted text
Yeah, and those guys push small machines to the outer
limited, too! I've got electronic copies of a bunch of the
early ME. But I'm not a model train guy. Dad fixed that for
me when I was young. Model Engineers Workshop still has some
stuff on model trains, but it's also lot more general. Got
electronic copies of the first 80 MEW, too. Want all the
rest, as well. What's that about beer budget and champagne
taste? Yup!
William
R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by:
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.?
SEMPER GUMBY!
Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome.
Physics doesn't care about your
schedule.
The only reason I know anything is
because I've done it wrong enough times to START
to know better.
Expect
in one hand, expectorate in the other. See
which one gets full first.
On Monday, November 25, 2024 at 07:06:20 PM CST, mike
allen <animal@...> wrote:
I bought both those mags from the same publisher
for a while & out of the 35-40 I have in a stack
I never found anything that even remotely interested
me . I subscribe to Model Engineer's Workshop , I
get teh digital copy . I just renewed my script last
again nite? . The English mag got to me cause there
seems to be a lot more machining articles & not
things like how to build a yard cart cause their out
of things to write about .? There's a lot more good
articles in the 2-3 years that I've subscribed then
all the years I bought the other 2 mags . The
English blokes? seem to take the hobby machining
hobby pretty serious . They have their own? forum
with probably at least a couple thousand hours of
experience between members . I just looked at the
October issue & it has I believe 11or 12
articles & that's without the regular columns .
The Barns & Noble in Reno carries it so I
imagine the the other Barns would too . I've been
real happy with my $$ spent on this mag .
YMMV
animal
On
11/25/24 2:50 PM, David Matthews via groups.io
wrote:
I tried Home Shop Machinist again last year and
am letting it drop.? Not a lot in it and what is
there often isn't well written.? I used to
subscribe and it was pretty good back then.? I see
Model Engineer's Workshop in this list.? Anyone
have any experience with it?? Looking for
something with small lathe/mill projects.
Dave
I got
this mail today & heres a list of their hobby
mags that are part
of their blackFriday Magazine sale , some of ya
may be interested
|
Bought a CD off Ebay.co.uk years ago. And I've been buying the magazines off ebay when & as I can find and afford them. Some really good stuff in them.?
Bill in?
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by: Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.? SEMPER GUMBY!
Expect in one hand, expectorate in the other. See which one gets full first.
On Monday, November 25, 2024 at 09:03:52 PM CST, mike allen <animal@...> wrote:
??? so how'd ya get the first 80 issues , on their website ?
??? thanks
animal
On 11/25/24 6:34 PM, Bill in OKC too
via groups.io wrote:
Yeah, and those guys push small machines to the outer
limited, too! I've got electronic copies of a bunch of the
early ME. But I'm not a model train guy. Dad fixed that for
me when I was young. Model Engineers Workshop still has some
stuff on model trains, but it's also lot more general. Got
electronic copies of the first 80 MEW, too. Want all the
rest, as well. What's that about beer budget and champagne
taste? Yup!
William
R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by:
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.?
SEMPER GUMBY!
Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome.
Physics doesn't care about your
schedule.
The only reason I know anything is
because I've done it wrong enough times to START
to know better.
Expect
in one hand, expectorate in the other. See
which one gets full first.
On Monday, November 25, 2024 at 07:06:20 PM CST, mike
allen <animal@...> wrote:
I bought both those mags from the same publisher
for a while & out of the 35-40 I have in a stack
I never found anything that even remotely interested
me . I subscribe to Model Engineer's Workshop , I
get teh digital copy . I just renewed my script last
again nite? . The English mag got to me cause there
seems to be a lot more machining articles & not
things like how to build a yard cart cause their out
of things to write about .? There's a lot more good
articles in the 2-3 years that I've subscribed then
all the years I bought the other 2 mags . The
English blokes? seem to take the hobby machining
hobby pretty serious . They have their own? forum
with probably at least a couple thousand hours of
experience between members . I just looked at the
October issue & it has I believe 11or 12
articles & that's without the regular columns .
The Barns & Noble in Reno carries it so I
imagine the the other Barns would too . I've been
real happy with my $$ spent on this mag .
YMMV
animal
On
11/25/24 2:50 PM, David Matthews via groups.io
wrote:
I tried Home Shop Machinist again last year and
am letting it drop.? Not a lot in it and what is
there often isn't well written.? I used to
subscribe and it was pretty good back then.? I see
Model Engineer's Workshop in this list.? Anyone
have any experience with it?? Looking for
something with small lathe/mill projects.
Dave
I got
this mail today & heres a list of their hobby
mags that are part
of their blackFriday Magazine sale , some of ya
may be interested
|
??? ??? Ok , i'll have to give that a gander . 10 bucks says that
I can't get to UK ebay even if I try , I've been there a couple
hundred times & I wasn't trying . Yea a feature , that's what
it is a feature .
thanks
animal
On 11/25/24 7:49 PM, Bill in OKC too
via groups.io wrote:
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
Bought a CD off Ebay.co.uk years ago. And I've been
buying the magazines off ebay when & as I can find and
afford them. Some really good stuff in them.?
Bill in?
William
R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by:
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.?
SEMPER GUMBY!
Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome.
Physics doesn't care about your
schedule.
The only reason I know anything is
because I've done it wrong enough times to START
to know better.
Expect
in one hand, expectorate in the other. See
which one gets full first.
On Monday, November 25, 2024 at 09:03:52 PM CST, mike
allen <animal@...> wrote:
??? so how'd ya get the first 80 issues , on their
website ?
??? thanks
animal
On
11/25/24 6:34 PM, Bill in OKC too via groups.io
wrote:
Yeah, and those guys push small machines to
the outer limited, too! I've got electronic
copies of a bunch of the early ME. But I'm not a
model train guy. Dad fixed that for me when I
was young. Model Engineers Workshop still has
some stuff on model trains, but it's also lot
more general. Got electronic copies of the first
80 MEW, too. Want all the rest, as well. What's
that about beer budget and champagne taste? Yup!
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
Aphorisms to live by:
Good judgement comes from
experience. Experience comes from
bad judgement.?
SEMPER GUMBY!
Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome.
Physics doesn't care about your
schedule.
The only reason I know anything is
because I've done it wrong enough
times to START to know better.
Expect in
one hand, expectorate in the
other. See which one gets full
first.
On Monday, November 25, 2024 at 07:06:20
PM CST, mike allen <animal@...>
wrote:
I bought both those mags from the same
publisher for a while & out of the
35-40 I have in a stack I never found
anything that even remotely interested
me . I subscribe to Model Engineer's
Workshop , I get teh digital copy . I
just renewed my script last again nite?
. The English mag got to me cause there
seems to be a lot more machining
articles & not things like how to
build a yard cart cause their out of
things to write about .? There's a lot
more good articles in the 2-3 years that
I've subscribed then all the years I
bought the other 2 mags . The English
blokes? seem to take the hobby machining
hobby pretty serious . They have their
own? forum with probably at least a
couple thousand hours of experience
between members . I just looked at the
October issue & it has I believe
11or 12 articles & that's without
the regular columns . The Barns &
Noble in Reno carries it so I imagine
the the other Barns would too . I've
been real happy with my $$ spent on this
mag .
YMMV
animal
On
11/25/24 2:50 PM, David Matthews via
groups.io wrote:
I tried Home Shop Machinist again
last year and am letting it drop.? Not
a lot in it and what is there often
isn't well written.? I used to
subscribe and it was pretty good back
then.? I see Model Engineer's Workshop
in this list.? Anyone have any
experience with it?? Looking for
something with small lathe/mill
projects.
Dave
I
got this mail today & heres a list
of their hobby mags that are part
of their blackFriday Magazine sale ,
some of ya may be interested
|
Bill in OKC too