woodone If real tight, a drop of very light weight oil will help. A little trick for you- when you try to take them out and you fell a lot of resistance, give them a slight turn to tighten-this some times will break them loose. proceed with care!
If real tight, a drop of very light weight oil will help. A little trick for you- when you try to take them out and you fell a lot of resistance, give them a slight turn to tighten-this some times will break them loose.
proceed with care!
Thanks for the tip Woodone!
I do have a set of Hex Head Drivers, so I will just unscrew them like all other ones, counter clockwise.
I wanted to be sure with this expensive Loco.
Thanks to all for your help!
There are hex head driver screw drivers. That are made for these. You will have to measure the head of the screw and get the correct size. But I bet they are metric.
You never know for sure, so measure them to make sure.
I'm not prepared to say that it's true for all scale steamers, but I have yet to see a sheet in any of mine, from four different suppliers/importers/brands, that cautions the user to use counter-clockwise motion to back out the bolt to, say, swap out a traction tire, or to switch to included metal tired drivers in favour of the traction tired drivers. I think you'll find it's a standard thread.
Hello,
I am still working on repairing my Athearn Genesis 4-8-4 Loco.
I want to remove the screws #175 from the drivers.
My question is do these screws just come off like any screw by using a tiny ratchet and turning counter clock wise?
Is there anything that I have to know before I do this?
I don't want to break anything, so any help would be appreciated.
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