OT: Practical Mechanics

[s--p--o--n--i--x]

Is Practical Mechanics magazine still going? If not, is there a similar publication?

sponix

[Doctor D]

Car Mechanics?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

out of a fairy liquid bottle, some sticky backed plastic and a spare gerbil.

Car Mechanics, on the other hand, still allow advertising of all the snake oil products like tin pellet 'catalysts' to replace lead in petrol - and occasionally endorse them.

[Badger]

Dunno, but I got several years worth given me from the 50s-60s to read through a month ago!

[mindwipe]

used to get this mag just to laugh at the drivel in it was very funny in its day

[jim_in_sussex]

err..umm (trying to clear away the fog enveloping memory) - ISTR a few years back - c.2000 or so - an account of GCHQ's james ellis's discovery of public key encryption which stated that he got the idea from an article in this said magazine, which reported a Bell Lab's scheme for doing something similar in analog using white noise.

Maybe not all drivel?

[s--p--o--n--i--x]

That was half the fun! I just wondered if it (Or anything similar) was still going today?

I don't want something that goes into the nitty gritty of running a home machine shop,just something full of stupid things you an build at home.

sponix

[s--p--o--n--i--x]

Unfortunately, I could never source sticky backed plastic that was sticky enough to hold the gerbil down :(

sponix

[urchaidh]

How about 'Make'?

a bit more computery and a bit less nut and bolty than you have in mind? Would have subscribed myslef but the UK rate (30ish quid for four issues) is a bit on the hefty side. Shame.