anyone have old "Model Engineer" mags

[rfurzer]

I am on the search for some articles from ME 1985-6 (vols 155,156,157) by J Bertinat regarding a triple expansion steam engine.

Does anyone have a cache from that era? (the Tas state library does, but they are 450km away and want $13 per article!! X17 articles!!!)

[Big Shed]

Might pay you to check out the Model Engineer website, I am fairly sure they now have electonic format (pdf) back issues on their site and they have an online subscription.

[MacPuddock]

I probably have them. If you tell me which particular articles you need I might be able to scan them.

Reeves in Britain have a casting set for a lot of money and a set of drawings for around 30 pounds.

https://vault1.secured-url.com/reeves2000/shop_item.asp?sub_cat_id=189

Cheers,

Findlay.

[rfurzer]

I actually have the castings (from EJ Winter in Newcastle) and the drawings.

I found the list of articles on the ME index (Model Engineer Magazine Index of Published Articles (http://www.itech.net.au/modelengineer/index.asp), search input "bertinat triple") but cannot get the results in a form that I can upload.

The ME pdf archive doesnt go back that far so if you can scan them I would be thrilled!

Russ

[Dave J]

I have one that I can find, it is part XVI from 21-30 November1986 that has, to be continued.
Might give you an idea of the other dates.

Dave

[rfurzer]

Thanks Dave,

I actually have the list of dates from the index website but cannot upload them for MacPuddock.

Russ

[MacPuddock]

Colin Usher's website offers indices for most British model engineering magazines.

index (http://www.colinusher.info/Indexes/index.html)

Take a look - then tell me which parts of the series you need.

Findlay.

[rfurzer]

Thanks MacPuddock

vol 155
issue 3759 pg 207
3761,311
3763, 450
3765,570
3767,692
vol156
3769,90
3771,212
3773,308
3775,448
3777,550
3779,678
vol 157
3781,84
3783,203
3785,326
3787,430
3789,547

thanks again!

[MacPuddock]

Russ,

I didn't realize that you wanted ALL of then - I thought that you were just missing a few.

I haven't checked yet but I think that will amount to between 60 ~ 80 pages.

That might take more time than I am prepared to put into it and result in a fairly large file.

If you could enroll another couple of people to share the load, I could do say 4 or 5.


Regards,

Findlay.

[rfurzer]

Findlay

I did THINK it was over generous of you to offer.
I have had an message from the local hobby engineering soc president who thinks that he has some of them.
I will chase up that lead and perhaps if there are some missing will then ask if you can help!

Russ

[MacPuddock]

Russ,

That sounds better. Let me know, I am reasonably sure that I would have all of the articles.

I recently had to "scan" some pages for my wife - trouble is they were much too large for an A4 scanner, so I photographed them and cropped the resulting pics. Worked out OK but largish file sizes.
After the fact, I did a little exploring on the web and found an interesting piece of software, Snapter, which apparently splits 2 page documents and fixes page curvature etc. I have set up a Windows XP machine to play with this.
If it works OK it would speed up magazine scanning enormously.

Cheers,

Findlay

[rfurzer]

Dear Findlay

I had to pop over to Adelaide this week and used the opp to go to the state lib.
I now have all the articles copied

thanks for your offer to help!

Russ

[MacPuddock]

Excellent!

I am still investigating a faster method using a digital camera to photograph the pages then using software to remove curvature of pages etc.

I am looking at something less involved than this but this is the general idea;

DIY Book Scanning | A forum dedicated to book scanning, open source, DIY digitization. (http://www.diybookscanner.org/)

Cheers,

Findlay.