{"id":4688,"date":"2021-06-07T17:57:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2021-06-07T17:57:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:57:30","slug":"gladiator-j6-boiler-back-plate-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4688","title":{"rendered":"Gladiator J6 &#8211; Boiler Back plate dressing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I am distracted with outside jobs during the good\nweather, I have been working on another of the key outstanding jobs that is\nsimple to pick up and put down. The back head\/plate, is as I mentioned earlier\nin the build, a GNR Boiler Back Plate set from LG Miniatures. It wasn\u2019t quite\ndeep enough so I added a strip of thick brass along the bottom. Also missing\nfrom the set as delivered, were the injectors. Laurie includes a layout drawing\nin the set and it showed the missing injectors. An enquiry to Laurie had an apology\nand a pair of injectors in the post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am not sure if they were from the GNR set or another more\ngeneric pair but a little bit of scratch building had them looking the part. I\nhad to fabricate one of the levers for the right hand injector from a .9mm rod\nwith one end squashed and drilled out for the pin and then tapered with a file\nin the mini drill (too small to old securely in the lathe).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the end I only used one of the hand wheels from the set\nbecause they came with cast stems on them and I wanted to fit them to the stem\nalready present on the castings so I used some cast hand wheels from the spares\nbox which had holes in the centres. Had I not had them to hand I would have cut\nthe stems of the castings and drilled them for the ones with the cast stems but\nit would have been a bit tedious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"849\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_00012-1-849x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4687\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_00012-1-849x1024.jpg 849w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_00012-1-249x300.jpg 249w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_00012-1-768x927.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_00012-1.jpg 1061w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><figcaption>J6 Backhead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"542\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0001-1-1024x542.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4685\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0001-1-1024x542.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0001-1-300x159.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0001-1-768x407.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0001-1-500x265.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0001-1.jpg 1090w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>J6 Backhead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GA showed some kind of inline valve down the right hand\nside of the cab at the side of the back plate so I knocked one up from a couple\nof bits of tube and a cast handwheel from the set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"513\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0004-1-1024x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4686\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0004-1-1024x513.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0004-1-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0004-1-768x385.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0004-1-500x250.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_0004-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>J6 backhead &#8211; scratchbuilt inline valve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My apologies for the greenish tinge it\u2019s reflections from\nthe green storage box that I propped it against for the photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I am distracted with outside jobs during the good weather, I have been working on another of the key outstanding jobs that is simple to pick up and put down. 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