{"id":2797,"date":"2017-06-03T17:10:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2017-06-03T17:10:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T16:10:26","slug":"more-gladiator-b161-tender-detailing-but-its-almost-there-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2797","title":{"rendered":"More Gladiator B16\/1 Tender detailing, but it&#8217;s almost there now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been a good one at the bench seeing the tender almost complete.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2798\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2798\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2798\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2798\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2798\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4482.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4482-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4482-768x556.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4482-415x300.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator B16-1 Tender Details<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2799\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2799\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2799\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2799\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2799\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4489.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4489.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4489-300x271.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4489-768x694.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4489-332x300.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator B16-1 Tender Details<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2800\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2800\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4497.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4497.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4497-300x289.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4497-768x740.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4497-311x300.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator B16-1 Tender Details<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The brake\/water scoop standards rotate and you now need to unscrew them to get the chassis from the body.<\/p>\n<p>When refitting the chassis during testing the cranks on the bottom of the shafts of the standards I realised that the brake rods were catching on the outer frame and had held one end of the chassi from fitting flat to the underside of the body. There is a plate with a slot in it in which two slots in the front ends of the inner chassis engage this was about 1.5 too high. To cure it I adjusted the offending brake spreaders and the rods inwards and then with the chassis upside down and engaged in the slots I used the microflame to run around the etches of the plate while pressing on the underside of the chassis with a block of wood. After a few moments the plate eased slowly downwards into the correct position and when the solder set again it was as it should have been.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2801\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2801\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2801\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2801\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4505.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4505-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4505-768x549.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4505-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator B16-1 Tender Details<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As far as I can tell there is just the vacuum pipe and the axleboxes\/spring castings to fit. I may also make the central &#8216;buffer&#8217; from styrene but I will see how it goes when I test the running to see if it needs it.<\/p>\n<p>Next it&#8217;s on to detailing the chassis before tackling the body details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been a good one at the bench seeing the tender almost complete. The brake\/water scoop standards rotate and you now need to unscrew them to get the chassis from the body. When refitting the chassis during testing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2797\">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-2797","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\/2797","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=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}