As I mentioned in the Princess Build Post in between punching out rivets which is a little tedious to say the least I have also done a bit more on the brakes for the J6

The brake hangars are single layer etches and being an older hand drawn kit the holes are a bit on the big side for lengths of wire. I also wanted to make the brakes removable so I turned up some hangar brackets cum spacers.

These are soldered to the chassis and the brakes hang off them. 

This meant temporarily re fitting the wheel, and spring hangars (so that the axles didn’t keep falling out.

Which allowed me to make up the brakes and have them removable. The GA drawing shows that there were turnbuckle type adjusters at the cab end so I knocked a couple up on the mill.

I also fitted the brake cylinders which requited yet another frame spacer to be milled out…. That seems to be a theme at the minute.