Thread: anyone have old "Model Engineer" mags

I am on the search for some articles from ME 1985-6 (vols 155,156,157) by J Bertinat regarding a triple expansion steam engine.

Does anyone have a cache from that era? (the Tas state library does, but they are 450km away and want $13 per article!! X17 articles!!!)

Might pay you to check out the Model Engineer website, I am fairly sure they now have electonic format (pdf) back issues on their site and they have an online subscription.

I probably have them. If you tell me which particular articles you need I might be able to scan them.

Reeves in Britain have a casting set for a lot of money and a set of drawings for around 30 pounds.

https://vault1.secured-url.com/reeve...sub_cat_id=189

Cheers,

Findlay.

I actually have the castings (from EJ Winter in Newcastle) and the drawings.

I found the list of articles on the ME index (Model Engineer Magazine Index of Published Articles, search input "bertinat triple") but cannot get the results in a form that I can upload.

The ME pdf archive doesnt go back that far so if you can scan them I would be thrilled!

Russ

I have one that I can find, it is part XVI from 21-30 November1986 that has, to be continued.
Might give you an idea of the other dates.

Dave

Thanks Dave,

I actually have the list of dates from the index website but cannot upload them for MacPuddock.

Russ

Colin Usher's website offers indices for most British model engineering magazines.

index

Take a look - then tell me which parts of the series you need.

Findlay.

Thanks MacPuddock

vol 155
issue 3759 pg 207
3761,311
3763, 450
3765,570
3767,692
vol156
3769,90
3771,212
3773,308
3775,448
3777,550
3779,678
vol 157
3781,84
3783,203
3785,326
3787,430
3789,547

thanks again!

Russ,

I didn't realize that you wanted ALL of then - I thought that you were just missing a few.

I haven't checked yet but I think that will amount to between 60 ~ 80 pages.

That might take more time than I am prepared to put into it and result in a fairly large file.

If you could enroll another couple of people to share the load, I could do say 4 or 5.


Regards,

Findlay.

Findlay

I did THINK it was over generous of you to offer.
I have had an message from the local hobby engineering soc president who thinks that he has some of them.
I will chase up that lead and perhaps if there are some missing will then ask if you can help!

Russ

Russ,

That sounds better. Let me know, I am reasonably sure that I would have all of the articles.

I recently had to "scan" some pages for my wife - trouble is they were much too large for an A4 scanner, so I photographed them and cropped the resulting pics. Worked out OK but largish file sizes.
After the fact, I did a little exploring on the web and found an interesting piece of software, Snapter, which apparently splits 2 page documents and fixes page curvature etc. I have set up a Windows XP machine to play with this.
If it works OK it would speed up magazine scanning enormously.

Cheers,

Findlay

Dear Findlay

I had to pop over to Adelaide this week and used the opp to go to the state lib.
I now have all the articles copied

thanks for your offer to help!

Russ

Excellent!

I am still investigating a faster method using a digital camera to photograph the pages then using software to remove curvature of pages etc.

I am looking at something less involved than this but this is the general idea;

DIY Book Scanning | A forum dedicated to book scanning, open source, DIY digitization.

Cheers,

Findlay.