Excellent! I used a pair of curved tweezers, as you suggested, Don, and leveraged against the axle. That made the front of the plastic cover snap off without any problem and with no damage. Really easy now that I know how to do it.
Thanks Don, - Peter. At 09:23 pm 12/29/2008, you wrote: >Dear Peter, >You do not need to cut the cross member as this holds the >sideframes/gearbox cover on to the gearbox. We take these off all of >the time with the engine upsidedown in a foam cradle (available from >Port Lines). Using the axel as a fulcrum, you can either use two >small screw driver shafts or a pair of curved tweezers (pickups) as >levers. Insert the levers between the axle and the crossmember By >pushing up on the bottom edge of the crossmember, you can distort it >enough so that it pops off of the gearbox. >Let me know how you do. >Don ------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Vanvliet ([email protected]) http://www.fourthray.com/ http://www.fourthray.com/Peter/ Houston, Texas ------------------------------------------------------------ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
