Hello, my friend bough this Weaver Royal Locomotive from my earlier post, and it needs a screw for the front tender truck. I didn't get a chance to look inside the box for it, but I was wondering if anyone had a photo and measurements of the screw so I could reattach the truck with a new screw...
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Can you remove the screw for the rear truck and see if it will secure the front truck. If it works. Take a picture and post it. Most trucks are mounted with 3mm screws with some sort of built in shoulder. The screw will tighten till the shoulder bottoms out. The truck will pivot on the shoulder.
Precision Scale would be one source that may have what you need.
You can also make your own "shoulder" on a plain screw using a short length of metal (brass, etc) tubing.
Turns out the screw was still inside the tender, and I just had to remove the sound package to get to it. It is screwed from inside the tender into the truck. Once I fixed that, the locomotive was run for the first time in front of my friend, which he was very pleased about!
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