Tanglewood49 posted:I'm planning on getting a Robert Grossman wheel puller for $20 plus shpg from eBay. It was originally advertised as being for Marx locos (Grossman is a Marx parts source). Is there any reason it wouldn't work on Lionel as well?
Probably it will work, as long as the pin is not too large. The Scout axles I have seen are .150" (not quite 5/32"). Not being a Marx guy, I don't know how that compares to Marx.
A problem I ran into with this puller is that, when the jaws are closed, the angle on the outside of the jaw can prevent you from getting the jaw all the way under the wheel. I tried pulling a wheel anyway and broke the wheel flange. You can probably rectify this by doing some grinding on the puller to knock down those "elbows". By the same token, you will want to make sure that the inside of the jaws is flat, so the wheel is not resting on a single point when you pull. I like the $50 Portline puller because it comes to you with jaws that are already thin, flat, and very strong. Also, because of the way it is made, the jaw geometry does not change when the diameter of the wheel you are pulling changes. But if you have a grinder, or at least a dremel, you can probably make the Grossman puller do what you need it to do.
