{"id":5610,"date":"2022-07-10T21:28:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T20:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2022-07-10T21:29:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T20:29:19","slug":"gladiator-j6-3d-printed-brak-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5610","title":{"rendered":"Gladiator J6 3D Printed Brake shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t really happy with how far away from the wheels the brake shoes needed to be to ensure that they didn&#8217;t short. I rew up some brake shoes in Fusion and a friend\u00a0kindly printed them off for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I had the chance to test fit one of them. After checking that I hadn&#8217;t messed up and that the etched hanger would go between the flanges. I bit the bullet, unsoldered the etched overlay and cut of the brake shoe from the hanger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next question was how to attach the printed brake shoes to the hangers. I hoped to have the shoes free to move and after considering and discounting&nbsp;various options which involved superglue I settled on a dressmakers pin and short length of microbore tube soldered to the pin and then filed down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0001-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0001-1-1024x1007.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5611\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0001-1-1024x1007.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0001-1-300x295.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0001-1-768x755.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0001-1-305x300.jpg 305w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0001-1.jpg 1042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gladiator J6 3D printed brake shoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0002-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"981\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0002-1-1024x981.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5612\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0002-1-1024x981.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0002-1-300x288.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0002-1-768x736.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0002-1-313x300.jpg 313w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_0002-1.jpg 1155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gladiator J6 3D printed brake shoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t really happy with how far away from the wheels the brake shoes needed to be to ensure that they didn&#8217;t short. I rew up some brake shoes in Fusion and a friend\u00a0kindly printed them off for me. Today &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5610\">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-5610","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\/5610","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=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5614,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}