{"id":2803,"date":"2017-06-05T17:17:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T16:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2017-06-05T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T16:17:24","slug":"gladiator-b161-loco-brakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2803","title":{"rendered":"Gladiator B16\/1 Loco Brakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the tender virtually complete my return from Doncaster saw a start made on detailing the loco chassis. I add the springs to the drivers and then looked at the brake gear.<br \/>\nThe instructions are along the lines of fit parts&#8230;. with a couple of build photos to assist with the general positioning.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully looking at prototype pictures helped answer most questions. the first being how the hanger mounts fit<br \/>\nThere is a better view in Yeadon but I found this and it saved me scanning the book.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2804\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2804\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2804\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/B16-1-Brake-hangers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/B16-1-Brake-hangers.jpg 327w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/B16-1-Brake-hangers-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As with some older kits, the forks in the etches for the rods connecting the brake spreaders are a little over etched so needed bushing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2807\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2807\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2807\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2807\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2807\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4520.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4520-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4520-768x548.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4520-420x300.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator B16-1 Loco Brakes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By accident or design some scrap from the chassis etches folded over the spreader was just the right thickness to fill the gap.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2805\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=2805\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2805\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2805\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2805\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4512.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4512-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4512-768x426.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_4512-500x278.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator B16-1 Loco Brakes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They just need soldering together once fitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the tender virtually complete my return from Doncaster saw a start made on detailing the loco chassis. I add the springs to the drivers and then looked at the brake gear. The instructions are along the lines of fit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2803\">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-2803","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\/2803","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=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2808,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}