{"id":5624,"date":"2022-07-14T17:22:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T16:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2022-07-14T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T16:22:31","slug":"gladiator-j6-brakes-refitted-with-3d-printed-shoes-plus-the-back-head-fitted-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5624","title":{"rendered":"Gladiator J6 &#8211; Brakes refitted with 3d Printed shoes Plus the back head fitted too."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got to fitting the rest of the 3D printed brake shoes to the J6 brake hangers today and then refitted them onto the pull rods. I don&#8217;t think I have shown the loco sat on the body since it&#8217;s pretty much complete. Just a few final bits like wiring it up and testing it before painting the chassis and weathering the whole thing<\/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\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-2-1-1024x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5625\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-2-1-1024x550.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-2-1-300x161.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-2-1-768x412.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-2-1-500x268.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-2-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gladiator J6 Brakes fitted<\/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\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-1-1024x589.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5626\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-1-1024x589.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-1-300x173.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-1-768x442.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-1-500x288.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gladiator J6 Brakes fitted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;also fitted the back head a couple of weeks ago but didn&#8217;t take any photos<\/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\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-3-1-725x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5627\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-3-1-725x1024.jpg 725w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-3-1-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-3-1-768x1085.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Gladiator-J6-Brakes-fitted-3-1.jpg 906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gladiator J6 Brakes fitted<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The rear view shows that making up the brake cylinders was worth it as they are quite visible when the loco is separated from it&#8217;s tender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to fitting the rest of the 3D printed brake shoes to the J6 brake hangers today and then refitted them onto the pull rods. I don&#8217;t think I have shown the loco sat on the body since it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5624\">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-5624","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\/5624","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=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5628,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/5628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}