{"id":686,"date":"2013-11-18T19:42:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T18:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2013-12-01T11:17:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T10:17:19","slug":"686","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Cab for the A3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I decided to take the cab back out of the paint stripper &#8211; I have been checking it and to be honest I could have taken it out some time ago but I was distracted by coaches.<\/p>\n<p>First let me share with you what I used to strip it &#8211; Cheapo local Coop Dettol substitute. I got the idea from fellow Gauge O Guild member George T, I would have used proper Dettol like George does but when I went they only had their own brand. In the end it too worked fine, nice smell, easy on your hands win\/win with the household authorities!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5493-533x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-688\" alt=\"IMG_5493 (533x800)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5493-533x800.jpg\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5493-533x800.jpg 533w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5493-533x800-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So here are a few shots of the state of play now that I have taken the roof off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5494-800x743.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-689\" alt=\"IMG_5494 (800x743)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5494-800x743.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5494-800x743.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5494-800x743-300x278.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5494-800x743-323x300.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5496-800x683.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-691\" alt=\"IMG_5496 (800x683)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5496-800x683.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5496-800x683.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5496-800x683-300x256.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5496-800x683-351x300.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5495-800x509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-690\" alt=\"IMG_5495 (800x509)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5495-800x509.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5495-800x509.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5495-800x509-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5495-800x509-471x300.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5497-800x717.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-687\" alt=\"IMG_5497 (800x717)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5497-800x717.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5497-800x717.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5497-800x717-300x268.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5497-800x717-334x300.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cast roof vent came out and one of the round castings in the cab side came adrift too so I will need to remove the false floor which shouldn&#8217;t present too many problems. Now having seen the detail that Nick has added to the princesses cabs I am on the lookout for cab detail before I put it all back together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regards Rob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I decided to take the cab back out of the paint stripper &#8211; I have been checking it and to be honest I could have taken it out some time ago but I was distracted by coaches. First let &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=686\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-djh-a3"],"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\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}