{"id":2709,"date":"2017-04-20T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T09:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2017-04-20T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T09:05:22","slug":"gladiator-b16-1-slidebars-crossheads-and-motion-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2709","title":{"rendered":"Gladiator B16-1  Slidebars Crossheads and Motion Bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work continued yesterday (after spending far too much time on the internet!!!).<\/p>\n<p>I the slide bars installed on the motion bracket after slowly working my way backwards with the filing until the cylinders were in the right place.<\/p>\n<p>you can see from the inset photo in this image how much I had to take it back. I did it in three stages checking the fit after each stage.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2711\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2711\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2711\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2711\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3925-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3925-001.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3925-001-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3925-001-768x549.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3925-001-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator B16-1 Slidebars Crossheads and Motion Bracket<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I shortened the piston rods a bit so that they fit inside the slide bars with approx. 2mm protruding from the gland on the inside of the cylinder. Now that I have it all assembled I will fit the connecting rods and cut the piston rods to final length.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2714\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2714\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2714\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2714\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3942.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3942.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3942-300x241.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3942-768x617.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3942-373x300.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator B16-1 Slidebars Crossheads and Motion Bracket<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2713\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2713\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2713\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2713\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3936.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3936.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3936-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3936-768x597.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3936-386x300.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator B16-1 Slidebars Crossheads and Motion Bracket<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2712\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2712\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2712\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2712\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2712\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3930.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3930.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3930-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3930-768x549.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3930-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator B16-1 Slidebars Crossheads and Motion Bracket<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2710\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2710\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2710\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2710\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2710\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3924.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3924.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3924-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3924-768x548.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_3924-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator B16-1 Slidebars Crossheads and Motion Bracket<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The close ups show that I still have a bit of cleaning up to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work continued yesterday (after spending far too much time on the internet!!!). I the slide bars installed on the motion bracket after slowly working my way backwards with the filing until the cylinders were in the right place. you can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gladiator-b161"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2715,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions\/2715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}