Whats the best way to remove the silver light bracket from the Athearn powered locomotive KITS?
Pliers.
David B
2 pound hammer. [:D]
A little thermal persuasion…
or a can of WD40 and a match, either one.
[:D]
I cannot presume to improve upon the superb advice given above [swg] but it might help to look at the standard Athearn parts assembly drawing if you do not have one. The wonderful HO Seeker website reproduces drawings and I picked the GP35 at random.
http://www.hoseeker.net/assemblyexplosionAthearn/athearngp351973.jpg
At one time a basement operator in Illinois offered a wire with two clips to replace the steel band, which always was the weak link in the Athearn assembly. While that is a little project anybody can make for themself, , he priced them low enough that I now regret not buying more while they were still available because it was the work of about 30 seconds if you had the part ready to go.
Dave Nelson
ROFL!!! Now, THAT’S funny!! [:D]
I use my Dremel to cut it off just short of the frame. This gives me something to solder one of the pickup wires of the decoder to instead of having to drill and tap a hole for a screw.
What Jeff said. Althought for me the frame served as the rivet that held that piece on. More often than not that joint would weeken, corode and cause a lack of electrical contact. My recomendation is to drill out the rivet(or even nip it off as it is just part of the frame) and drill and tap a hole. And for me those frames are soft enought that if you just drill the hole deep enought and screw in a screw you are good enough. Besides how likely are you remove the screw?
…or you could do it properly and solder wires directly to the brass rivets on the trucks to fix one of Athearn’s electrical issues.
David B
I agree david but my sw switcher had the metal side frames and did not have any brass rivets to solder to. I have done another sw switcher and various gps that I have soldered to the brass rivet and it worked great.
Mike