Morning all as I said in my introduction I am new to steam. It was my fathers dream to putt about the inner harbour in Victoria bc and I was seeking information on a engine he had a photocopy of Saw thought it was a 6a well I found the book it came from it was in a 1985 catalogue by “Coles Power Models” model 6a.
1.5" hp & 3" lp

Well to bring you up to date I went back to Victoria from Calgary to pick up his tools, a clausing lathe and atlas 7b shaper as well as his kiln and stained glass equipment to mention a few. I also found “Verbal Notes and Sketches” 15 th edition volumes 1 &| 2 as well as 8 issues of Steamboating and Some Model Engineers Workshop magazines.
The lathe spindel was a bit loose so we tightend it up some and will look into new bearings my son and I will pull the apron off the carriage this weekend the crossfeed nut tightens by itself I think a clip has come off other than that it runs good.

the shaper runs good judging by the cuttings on the floor lol I'm working on that though and have a catcher mocked up not in this pic though.

And his fourth class engineer steam certificate dated 1948.

I also found his master drawing I guess you would call it and his patterns for the head, cores and columns so I'm a happy camper, I guess he couldn't find much info on the 6a either and was running with experience. I thought the ears on the head were too big but his design calls for pillars that I saw on utube for a triple expansion that fit them good it will give me a working distance between the head and soleplate once they are cast and in place. One thing I’m not sure about on his pillars the slider landings seem way small to me should they be bigger / wider or another one in the middle for rigidity 's sake?




first time posting like this

woohoo
