Family folklore has it that great grandfather built a working stationary engine as a display piece for the front room. Great-grandmother was forever chiding him for it being covered in dust and looking "grubby". So he stripped it down with the intention of chrome plating it. Then at 43 years old he died suddenly of food poisoning, around 1912.
Dad has spent the last month or so sorting out his workshop and today presented me with the cylinder set from the engine and thinks he also has the conrods and governor set. The cylinder is 46mm bore and 155mm long and is complete with steam chest, cylinder end caps, glands and drain c*ck. It must have been quite a beast on the sideboard! The steam chest has been chrome plated so he was on the way to re-building it.
It has to be "rebuilt". I'd be grateful for any recommended sources that would help establish a design working back from the cylinder set dimensions. There are no drawings or even memories of what it looked like finished, but it would have been a close copy of a local contemporary mill engine. Keep me busy for a few years anyway.
Regards
Steve