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The issue spotlights an indexing fixture concept, including renewed drawings and supporting 3D renders for clarity, and explains practical options such as sprung-arm indexing, chuck/collet adaptation, and 3D-printed gearing. Additional coverage spans steam and mechanism build topics, heat-treat colouring, drive and valvetrain gear, workshop techniques, and training history, alongside regular magazine content and community updates.","MAKE A LAP FOR OVERSIZE REAMERS  \n[www.model-engineer.co.uk](www.model-engineer.co.uk)  \nVolume: 235, Issue: 4779, August 2026  \nBolton Steam Museum  \nGETTING THE BR CLASS 1500 READY TO RUN  \n• •   \nA TOOL POST INDEXING DEVICE  \nFINAL DRAWINGS FOR PAUL  \nINSIDE this packed issue:  \nLOUSICK’S GRINDER • FOURUNNER MK2 – BUILD A V4 STEAM ENGINE WITH PETER STUART’S PLANS • USING OXIDATION COLOURS TO HEAT TREAT STEEL • THE CRANKSHAFT FOR SAMSON • GRATE AND DAMPER OPERATING GEAR IN 5” GAUGE • CITY AND GUILDS – HOW ENGINEERING USED TO BE TAUGHT • WOODEN BODYWORK FOR A STEAM TRAM • EARLY HYDROSTATIC POWER TRANSMISSION • 3D PRINTED TOOL STORAGE • ECCENTRIC MOTIONS AND SETUPS  \nPLUS ALL YOUR REGULAR FAVOURITES!  \nTHE MAGAZINE FOR HOBBY ENGINEERS, MODELLERSAND MAKERS.  \nAUGUST 2026  \n| EDITORIAL\u003Cbr>Editor: Neil Wyatt\u003Cbr>Designer: Druck Media\u003Cbr>Illustrator: Grahame Chambers\u003Cbr>Publisher: Tim Hartley\u003Cbr>By post: Model Engineer & Workshop, Kelsey Media Ltd, Media Centre, Morton Way, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6JR. 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Items we cannot use will be returned if accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope, and recorded delivery must clearly state so and enclose sufficient postage.\u003Cbr>In common with practice in other periodicals, all material is sent or returned at the contributor’s own risk, and neither Model Engineer & Workshop Magazine, the editor, the staff, nor Kelsey Media Ltd can be held responsible for loss or damage, howsoever caused.\u003Cbr>The opinions expressed in ME&W are not necessarily those of the editor or staff. This periodical must not, without the written consent of the publishers, be given, lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise disposed of in a mutilated condition or in any unauthorized cover, by way of trade, or annexed to or as part of any publication or advertising, literary or pictorial matter whatsoever. |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  | This issue was published on 17 July 2026\u003Cbr>The next issue will be on sale 21 August 2026 |  |\n|  KELSEY media |  |  |\n\nBACK TO THE FUTURE  \nAs Editor, I am regularly contacted  \nby readers seeking informa  \ntion on past articles and in this  \nmonth’s postbag, Ian Fisher lists several past tooling designs that he has made. Reflecting this interest, this issue reproduces an article by Edgar T. Westbury about a simple indexing fixture. Ina break with previous‘reprints’ we have had the figures redrawn to make them easier to interpret, and also produced some 3D renders, as the original photos are not very clear. 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