Thread: Model Engineer Magazine missing Articles

To any Model Engineer Mag collector or Digital subscribers, I'm chasing some missing articles to a series I'm gathering. I have the start from the 70's the first 5 Parts and a few of the later 80's.

However there were more updates in the 80's, 90's, & 2000's that I'm looking for.

Year

Volume

Issue

Page

Author

Title

1980	146	3647	1504	Geo. H.Thomas	The Mini Drill. A Small-hole Drilling Accessory for the Tapping & Staking Tool
1981	147	3657	613	Geo. H.Thomas	The Mini Drill. A Small-hole Drilling Accessory for the Tapping & Staking Tool
1981	147	3657	613	Geo. H.Thomas	The Mini Drill. A Small-hole Drilling Accessory for the Tapping & Staking Tool

1981

147

3650

143

Geo. H.Thomas

The Mini Drill. A Small-hole Drilling Accessory for the Tapping & Staking Tool

1993

170

3946

640

Tim Bard

Useful hints (Drill chuck keys; pillar or staking tool)

These were all later published as a book, "Building The Universal Pillartool". Then later again included as chapters in a larger book "Workshop Techniques". These books look really good to me but postage on a new book is 2-3 times the cost of the book and just to expensive. Hence I'm gathering all the original articles as PDFs for the Pillar Tool. Which starts out in 1970 as a Tapping Machine and Staking tool.


















If anyone has access to these last few articles it be appreciated.

A snazzy version or the original machine without the table in place and a few extra castings



The finished project with the later additions added.

Dale,

Save up your play money and buy George's Model Engineer's Workshop Manual. It is a trove of beautiful work and useful information and in my mind the best book of its type.

Bob.

Bob, I'm on the lookout for a local used copy of both his books, should be a lot cheaper that way. In the interim still want to get PDFs if I can. also I can print the pdfs to get dirty in the shed and keep the book clean in the house.

Which of his books do you have?

I have already scanned the relevant G.H. Thomas articles from 1990 & 91.

I have saved them as .tif format - each file is ~2Mb. If you want them, I will convert them to smaller files then send you a PM with a dropbox link.

Let me know if this will do.

I should have the article from Model Engineer 1993 - will take a look in my archives.

You might find this interesting:

http://www.haythornthwaite.com/pillar%20tool.html

Cheers,

Findlay.

Originally Posted by DSEL74

Bob, I'm on the lookout for a local used copy of both his books, should be a lot cheaper that way. In the interim still want to get PDFs if I can. also I can print the pdfs to get dirty in the shed and keep the book clean in the house.

Which of his books do you have?

Both books and the set of castings for the sensitive drill / pillar tool. In reality I'll probably never build the kit because the 13 came with one of these -

http://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...10#post1251710

Originally Posted by MacPuddock

I have already scanned the relevant G.H. Thomas articles from 1990 & 91.

I have saved them as .tif format - each file is ~2Mb. If you want them, I will convert them to smaller files then send you a PM with a dropbox link.

Let me know if this will do.

I should have the article from Model Engineer 1993 - will take a look in my archives.

You might find this interesting:

http://www.haythornthwaite.com/pillar%20tool.html

Cheers,

Findlay.

If you could do that it be appreciated. I don't mind large download sizes if you don't want to resize. The '93 article would be handy.




Bob,

Sorry which two books?

• Building the Universal Pillar Tool
• Workshop Techniques
• The Model Engineers Workshop Manual

or some of his other works?


Is there much difference between Building the Universal Pillar Tool book and the section regarding it in Workshop Techniques?

In regard to the castings do you remember which supplier they came from? There has been a few companies selling them over time but they are not all the same in form. I like the original ones where the arms are more organic and dogbone shaped. I was intending to make my own patterns and get them cast, or go the fabrication route if cost becomes too much issue.

With the schubalin I don't think you need one of these UPTs. I think I would find one useful, but I mostly want to make it for the learning exercise.

These Dale,






I think "Building the Universal Pillar Tool" was incorporated into "Workshop Techniques". My castings were purchased from Hobby Mechanics.

I'm now only missing

1981	147	3657	613	Geo. H.Thomas	The Mini Drill. A Small-hole Drilling Accessory for the Tapping & Staking Tool
1981	147	3657	613	Geo. H.Thomas	The Mini Drill. A Small-hole Drilling Accessory for the Tapping & Staking Tool

1981

147

3669

1379

Editor

George Thomas's Tapping and Staking Machine and Mini Drill Attachment

Here you go Dale,

Castings as supplied by Hobby Mechanics.

I did buy some PG 4140 for the column but it has long gone and I never got around to looking for belt material.

Bob .

DSC_4719 (Large).jpg DSC_4718 (Large).jpg

There are quite a number of variations in the interpretation of the plans for the castings.

These are the same as used by Geo.H. Thomas. Note the roundness of the arm section. I think these are the nicest looking ones.
The faceplate is blank and has a separate stub. The green drill in my earlier post uses these castings.


And these are the ugliest IMHO. They have gone for ease of making the patterns, rather than look of finished item.
This set includes long & short arms and drill head.

It appears that Hemingway have adhered to the original. http://www.hemingwaykits.com/acatalo...llar_Tool.html

These components would probably appear on eBay from time to time. A bit like un or half done Quorns.

BT

A finished Quorn in rusted state recently sold on ebay starting price was $750.