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AF Kid
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Does any company sell a socket to remove the screws on the Locomotive's drive wheel linkage...???
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I don't know if anyone's actually made a tool for that but I have seen people use plyers
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Needle nose pliers. Yeah. Socket would be nice.
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I know mantua included a special screwdriver in their kits for it, I need to get my hands on one one of these days.
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Bowser kits used to come with a screw with a head made to be turned with a 3/32" Allen wrench. That works as a socket to drive both the Bowser and Mantua crank pins.
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I had the Mantua Socket but I can't find it now....
I was working on a Rivarossi Cab Forward. The Mantua Linkage Screw is smaller than the Rivarossi one.
Using Needle nose pliers is guaranteed to jazz up the screw head. I ended up using a small adjustable wrench to loosen it.
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These work well, you can find them cheeper if ya look.
https://www.micromark.com/Nut-Driver-Set-set-of-4

Hope this helps?
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The Rivarossi crank pin heads are 3mm across the hex head faces, so you're either looking for a 3mm nut driver or a cylindrical inside socket head screw that takes a 3mm Allen type drive. That would be an M4-0.7 size screw.

For example:
https://www.menards.com/main/hardware/fasteners-connectors/screws/socket-cap-screws/midwest-fastener-reg-4mm-0-70-x-16mm-zinc-hex-drive-coarse-thread-socket-cap-screw-1-count/81663/p-1444440048757-c-8937.htm?tid=-6842997411967478037&ipos=19

A little work with a file might be needed to fit that head into smaller spaces.
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AF Kid
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These work well, you can find them cheeper if ya look.
https://www.micromark.com/Nut-Driver-Set-set-of-4

Hope this helps?
T.C.

Originally posted by TMC - December 21 2020 :  12:41:06 PM



Absolutely... They are about 8 miles from me. But they don't have walk-in sales.
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