{"id":3787,"date":"2018-12-05T19:34:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3787"},"modified":"2018-12-05T19:34:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T18:34:20","slug":"gladiator-j6-valencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3787","title":{"rendered":"Gladiator J6  &#8211; Valencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-redactor=\"1\">I spent 2 and 1\/2 hours last night preparing the cradle for the foot plate which contains the valances&#8230;.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">Some this was my own fault because it&#8217;s quite thick nickel silver and like David found out when he built one recently, you need to file a lot out of either side of the fold lines to allow the valances to sit vertical.\u00a0 I had attempted to fold up one side some time ago which needs a bit of brute strength but then found that it wouldn&#8217;t come to 90 degrees.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">The first job was to straighten the side already bent enough to allow me to file out the fold line. I did this by annealing with the microflame and then using the vice to squash the etch back almost flat. Once I had filed the fold lines, I bent it as far as I could with one of the sides off a set of bending bars and then used a rubber mallet to bash it to the final 90 degree fold while the middle section was firmly gripped in a second set of bending bars to ensure that it stayed flat.<\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\"><\/div>\n<div data-redactor=\"1\">Hopefully I will get the footplate shaped and soldered on tonight so I will take photos after that.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent 2 and 1\/2 hours last night preparing the cradle for the foot plate which contains the valances&#8230;. Some this was my own fault because it&#8217;s quite thick nickel silver and like David found out when he built one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3787\">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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gladiator-lner-br-j6"],"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\/3787","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=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}