Issue 218 will be a bit special...

The next issue of MEW, number 218, is coming together really nicely. We've got a great range of content, mixing plenty of short articles and simple builds with some longer or more advanced topics.

Just to whet your appetites - I hope you enjoy it when it hits the doormat/ipod/shelves etc!

Neil

You can now preview the contents of issue 218 here;

**LINK**

Neil

Page 34 on the contents page: what's a cabinmet?

LOL

Neil,

Just an observation, is Alan Jackson's article on the locking topslide a re-run of what was in MEW 119 -121 or an update?

ALSO, looking at the preview index, their is a spelling mistake in the title for the cabinets article, CabinMets rather than cabinets

That said, I must commend you on what promises to be another excellent selection of articles, keep up the good work.

Graeme

Hi Graeme,

Just goes to show, you can read something half a dozen times or more and still miss the obvious

The Stepperhead series did not conclude in MEW 210. Although the lever locking topslide has been described, this is an update of the article from 2006 and needed to properly cover stepperhead. there is also a milling head to come and then Alan's experiences of using the machine. We will also put some additional support files on this website. I couldn't see the point of covering such a machine in detail and then leaving out two key elements of the build. We are printing the drawings at a reduced size so as to allow space for other content.

Neil

Thanks for the info Neil, I was wondering when stepper head was going to be continued, although a long and complex series, it is one I have thoroughly enjoyed and having seen the machine in the flesh, it needed comprehensive coverage. As the drawings are being printed at reduced size, could larger ones be made available as a download maybe?

Graeme

> Renowned expert Ken Sprayson gives advice on motorcycle frame building

Why?

Because I want to widen the range of workshop techniques we cover.

Neil

No one can proof read their own work. I think they tried it here with the news papers when they went electronic, spelling, grammar, and punctuation was all over the place. Things are not too bad these days with the papers.

Ian S C

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It's relevant, transferable information,

so ... Why not ?

... Keep up the initiative, Neil.

MichaelG.

While I'm prepared to accept that motorbike frame building is related I think it is a bit of a waste of a cover picture opportunity. Is it an attempt to get bikers confused about the contents and buy the issue and see if they are then hooked?

Another issue recently had a car on the front - same reaction from me.

It is in the hope that more people who restore or modify vehicles will take a look at the magazine. The article was written in response to interest expressed by readers in this area before I became editor.

Though specific content will always be thin on the ground, the machining content of MEW appeals to such people. Restoration and motorcycle customisation are a significant interests in our readership, which extends beyond hobby engineers to commercial light engineers.

Covers have the job of attracting new and occasional readers - regular readers don't need a cover picture to tell them what is inside. I need to rove across the whole range our content.

Without wishing to be too provocative, very few of the photos I receive with articles make suitable cover material, just as ME has been looking at a much wider range of cover shots over the last year or so. I will always try and use one of the more attention-grabbing shots from within the contents.

Neil

And really fits the magazine title ..... yes, I see.

"Transferable information" seems to be the old self-serving chestnut that there may be the odd paragraph buried among the irrelevance that might be of some interest to some model engineers somewhere. That could be said about virtually any topic one can think of. Slippery slope seems to me.

What the hey. I've bailed anyway.

Many members of my local model engineering clubs have motorbikes, some very old bikes, a friend of mine has a very old car and a very old motorbike, he now makes Stuart Turner engines for an interest. I think the bike frame photo is okay and I'm looking forward to reading the article. It's all engineering.

Regards

Hi

If the magazine is heading that way, perhaps we should drop the word MODEL!

Bending and welding is part of engineering, but relevant to model makers?

Best regards

Keith

Leeds UK

Suppose it depends what models you make, This part for one of my beam engines needs similar bending and welding/brazing

Gentlemen,

Surely Abraham Lincoln's quote “You can please some of the people some of the time all of the people some of the time some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.” comes into play here, whatever the Editor puts in the magazine will not please everyone, there are articles that I dont like but I read them to see if there is anything I could use but I dont complain as I know that there will be in other issues stuff that is of interest to me.

Martin P

I wonder how many bikers take the mag and never complain about anything that gets published? In addition I will support the premise that all of it is engineering like wot we do and if I find the odd paragraph containing usefull information somewhere in an article that on the whole holds no interest for me, then that is something else which I would not have had if the "uninteresting" article had not been published. Keep it up Neil! As for you lot moaning about an article thats not come from the printers yet, just wait and see. Some of you may find at least some of it useful. Those of you that take a blinkered view of what Neil should publish maybe should get a different mag. CSB (common sense brigade) 1. Luddites 0.

Rick