{"id":3179,"date":"2017-12-11T18:25:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:25:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T17:25:10","slug":"gladiator-j6-off-the-starting-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3179","title":{"rendered":"Gladiator J6 off the starting blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-redactor=\"1\">The J6 is is officially underway,<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">I decided to build the tender first to get a feel for things and the plan is to use the tender for the pickups so hornblocks were fitted. The good news for this plan is that there were etched cut outs for fitting them with certainly simplified things.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">All the wheels are blackened but I need to stock up on steel 10ba csk screws because I haven&#8217;t enough to do the drivers.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">The horn guides are Finney but I seem to have misplaced the strips for retaining the hornblocks so I used a trick borrowed from Warren Haywood and used surplus 12ba nuts and bolts from Slaters crank pins to create retainers. In fairness I could have probably just soldered strips of scrap etch across the bottom because the Slaters wheels are easy to remove.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">At the minute there is a lot of side play. I plan to leave this for the moment because the finished model has to negotiate 5&#8242; radius curves.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3174\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3174\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3174\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3174\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3174\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7023.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7023-300x185.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7023-768x473.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7023-488x300.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator J6 &#8211; Tender Chassis<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3175\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3175\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3175\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3175\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7030.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7030.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7030-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7030-768x466.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7030-495x300.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator J6 &#8211; Tender Chassis<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3176\" style=\"width: 858px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3176\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3176\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3176\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7037.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7037.jpg 848w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7037-248x300.jpg 248w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7037-768x927.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator J6 &#8211; Tender Chassis<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3177\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=3177\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3177\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3177\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3177\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7043.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7043.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7043-300x177.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7043-768x453.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_7043-500x295.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiator J6 &#8211; Tender Chassis<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">You will note in the last photo that I shimmed the spacers with some scrap etch I am not sure whether I really needed to but it helped to level the space with the top of the frames and to get a tighter fit with the rear spacer that goes through the frames mid way. I suspect that if I had tested it without removing the etching cusp I may not have needed it.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The J6 is is officially underway, I decided to build the tender first to get a feel for things and the plan is to use the tender for the pickups so hornblocks were fitted. 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