Interesting thread. Just last week, I was wondering if I could buy an assortment kit of the most common machine screws used in locomotives.
In the gun repair world, there are dozens of different types of machine screws used, going back for more than a century. And yet, you can just buy a kit with a hundred or more of them, all black, in a very very wide assortment, for around $35. And, if you need a really odd-ball machine screw, for a rare firearm, most good gunsmith shops have a screw-making machine and will just make if for you right there.
You guys mean to tell me that after 100 years of Lionel and other model train engines being mass produced, there are not readily available screw kits? Really hard to believe. Plainly, the repair experts are not buying the screws one by one.
Mannyrock
