{"id":4278,"date":"2020-12-05T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T10:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2020-12-05T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T10:30:54","slug":"gladiator-j6-more-work-on-the-chassis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4278","title":{"rendered":"Gladiator J6 More work on the chassis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not a great deal to show for this week\u2019s efforts on the J6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I filled in the lightening holes in the front of the frames as the photo that I am working from doesn\u2019t show any. I also cut away the bottom of the etched ashpan sides and fitted a representation of the bottom. This may need a bit of trimming to clear the gear wheel once finally fitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0001-001-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0001-001-1024x575.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0001-001-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0001-001-768x431.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0001-001-500x281.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0001-001.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Gladiator J6 Ash Pan and Lightening Holes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0002-001-1024x927.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0002-001-1024x927.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0002-001-300x272.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0002-001-768x695.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0002-001-331x300.jpg 331w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0002-001.jpg 1169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Gladiator J6 Ash Pan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rest of the time has been spent patiently filing the hornblocks, hornguides and the cranks to enable the cranks and eccentrics to fit between the centre hornguides and rotate freely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"873\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0001-1-873x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4273\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0001-1-873x1024.jpg 873w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0001-1-256x300.jpg 256w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0001-1-768x901.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0001-1.jpg 1091w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><figcaption>Gladiator J6 Cranks and eccentrics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"927\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0003-927x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4277\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0003-927x1024.jpg 927w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0003-272x300.jpg 272w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0003-768x848.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0003.jpg 1159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" \/><figcaption>Gladiator J6 Cranks and eccentrics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0002-1-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0002-1-1024x731.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0002-1-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0002-1-768x548.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0002-1-420x300.jpg 420w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/IMG_0002-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Gladiator J6 Cranks and eccentrics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to the need to get the loco around 5\u20196\u201d curves the frames are a bit narrower than they might have been if I had been building for myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far, so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a great deal to show for this week\u2019s efforts on the J6. I filled in the lightening holes in the front of the frames as the photo that I am working from doesn\u2019t show any. I also cut away &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4278\">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-4278","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\/4278","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=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4279,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/4279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}