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A few years ago, my wife looked at my workshop and asked what she should do with it if she was left on her own. None of the family are interested but I am lucky enough to have a friend about the same age as my daughters. He is a fellow engineer and is the chap hired to replace me when I...

My Hafco HM 45 Mill/drill has stopped working. The switch is fine so it looks like the motor needs attention. I have removed the bolts holding the motor to the head but it seems to be hitting on something in the gearbox that stops me from lifting it off. Can anybody suggest a solution? Jim

When I did a course at the local Technical College a couple of years ago, one of the exercises was to make a rail vice from 25x25 cold rolled steel. This vice was so useful as a milling vice that I have now made a smaller one from 20x20 CRS. Here are the drawings and a video (I hope) and I...

Hello, my name is Jim. I am a retired (and very much out of date) electronics engineer living in Bywong, just outside of Australia’s capital city, Canberra. I have had a fascination with engines since boyhood and discovered model engineering around 12 years ago. Putting those two things...

G'day all, A mate and I are coming over to visit friends and to attend the Harrogate ME Exhibition (and the National Vintage Communications Show on the same weekend). It would be great to put faces to names that I see on HMEM. Anybody else going along? Jim