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Which model engineering magazine?
PekkaNF:
--- Quote from: Mike K on November 26, 2013, 08:24:17 PM ---Model Engine Builder is now digital only, so the yearly sub price is quite reasonable.
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Looks interesting.
I checkked the site. How does it actually works? You pay and get a subscription number that allows you
* to download magazine that you can use indefinately, or does it expires?
* Is it open PDF or do you need a dedicated viewer?
* Do you have only one shot for one (or two) issues when they are published, or can you dowload earlier nubers too?
* Can you download earlier designs or articles with this subscription or is it a separate fee?
Pekka
Fergus OMore:
I belong to a category which seems to have 'read it all before' and because there is so little which is new, I have given up paying money for someone else churning out what somebody did better- then.
Basically, I have what can be described as 'standard textbooks' , I have Machinery's Handbook( 1941 edn), I have Holzapfell which contains everything, I gave away Advanced Machine Toolwork by Smith( a great book) and Tubal Cain, George Thomas, Martin Cleeve and Chaddock. I have my dog eared copy of Sparey from my days when I played with 12" to the foot models- in 1948- and some are still airworthy.
Basically, that is more than enough for most people but perhaps with a double sliderule and a set of log tables!
Once you understand Euclid and the greats from a distance past- and you can stumble through these , there is little today that evokes a stifled yawn. My only wish is that I could appreciate the old stuff more than I do.
Oddly, I am not alone in this view.
Cheers
Norman
Pete49:
Pekka its open pdf files and no they don't expire. For me, in Australia, its a great way to subscribe as the postage costs don't exist. I also subscribe to another US digital magazine for my other hobby. At the subscription cost of MEM I suggest you try it and if not happy you haven't lost much....Oh yes the other thing is MEM is digitising all their back issues too and are cheap as well
Pete
PekkaNF:
Thanks Pete, I have to give it a tought!
I like books too. Some are easy reading and some are well indexed and easy to search. Some I hate, because I know that the info (or almost enough to get started...is here, but it is so hard to find and terse that it would need repeated reading.
Pekka
rotorhead:
Hi Folks.
I too started buying MEW at its beginning, I'm afraid that it has lost most of its appeal to me now.
I'm a tinkerer, bodger and general fixerupper, mainly of tooling to make tooling to make tooling, seems like ad infinitum.
I've not come across any other publication that comes close to what was originally intended with MEW, but have occasionally had inspiration from said magazine.
Sadly I'm thinking of not renewing my sub next year...
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