Lionel 1666 Contact shoes replacement?

You do not need to remove the contact board. Just use a small flat blade screwdriver and thru the end lift the copper contact strip enough so the old shoe pops out of the retaining hole. To put new shoe in just reverse.

Here is a link from Olson's toy train parts that shows how to lift spring to remove sliding shoe.

http://pictures.olsenstoy.com/cd/locos/loc2026c.pdf 

franktrain

If you ever do need to remove the contact board Jeff Kane at Train Tender sells a very cool tool for that. If your wires are rotted or broken you will have to remove it in most cases.

Rob

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If you ever do need to remove the contact board Jeff Kane at Train Tender sells a very cool tool for that. If your wires are rotted or broken you will have to remove it in most cases.

Have you tried using it?

I ask because I didn't have much luck with mine.

If the insulation is damaged, I find it a whole lot easier to remove what is left of the insulation, take a piece of new insulation, and slide it over the bare wire.

You got me there. I have the tool but have not yet used it. I have removed contact boards by other methods in the past and thought the tool would be better. I wasn't lucky enough to be able to just re-sleeve the wire. They were broken off. Hope I didn't pay that much for the tool and it not work.

Ronb

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Hope I didn't pay that much for the tool and it not work.

The problem could have been the user, and not the tool

I have not had occasion to give it a second try.

I think I paid around twenty dollars for mine.

I was just confused about the service manual pages showing the board removed (obviously for illustration purposes) . I just removed the pilot and trailing trucks to give a bit more room for the jeweler's screwdriver I was using and quickly swapped them out.

Thanks!

Peter