I Need a screw for a Lionel H10 tender....

It's a metric screw, I had to replace a couple in my tender because they buggered them up when they assembled it.  I'll take one out tomorrow and match it up with my hardware stash.

Believe it no, True Value hardware has such things. Take the screw with you to gauge it.

I had to clean some bad threads with a 3mm tap and  attach part of the superheater assembly on my Lionel NKP 765 (the parts were floating around in the box when delivered as well as the infamous pilot truck wheels). I found that allen head bolts worked best in tight spots .  

Go around your layout with a good magnet.  I usually find a collection of them!   One of them might work.  Unfortunately it's true.

 Rick, whenever I order parts. I usually buy extra screws and things I really don't need just for the fact they are cheap enough and I'm already paying for shipping. Plus I may need them someday. I have 2 that may work. Just double check the thread, pitch and length on Lionel's site. They are a little longer than what you are showing. 8mm versus 6.  Often times there's a few extra threads in the body post. I can send them out in the mail. No charge. Just e mail me your address if you can use them.

Jim Sandman is right! Every time we take down our modular layout we find assorted screws and no one ever figures our who's missing them.  I've learned to  run my torpedo level (it has a long magnet on the bottom) over the tracks. 

Looks like a 6-32 thread.

Like Earl says these can be had at just about any hardware store these days. MTH uses a mix of english and metric fasteners but pretty sure modern Lionel is all metric.

It used to be precision  measuring tools cost three figures. Nowadays you can find digital calipers capable of measuring english and metric for about 10 bucks on the auction sites. Worth having in the tool box for times like this.

Pete

Jim Sandman posted:

Go around your layout with a good magnet.  I usually find a collection of them!   One of them might work.  Unfortunately it's true.

Save those old blown auto speakers they have great magnets. You can knock the magnet off the frame with a hammer and chisel.   A roofer once left a zillion roofing nails in my yard and whenever I cut the grass the lawnmower got another flat. I glued ten of those old auto speaker magnets to a 2x4 and put lawnmower wheels on each end, drilled a hole in the center of the 2x4 and glued an old mop stick in the hole. Pulled that rig all over the area where the old roofing had been. No more flats.   j

When I need a few screws, I'll go to a computer repair shop and talk to them about it. They'll bring out a coffee can full of them and I'll pour a little out at a time on the counter and sort though them. The best part is they have so many of them. They don't even charge me.

I get my screws from Micro fasteners at a good price. I have a stash of different ones for my work on MTH engines and others.

Last week I was playing with some old equipment and a VCR burned up. I had already torn apart a cordless phone set and got plenty of usable hardware from that so I tore the old VCR apart. I got a nice stash of metric screws, gears, and electric stuff.

My point is if you are throwing away anything, see what screws are in there. I think they were using metric screws for decades now.

Steelie posted:

When I need a few screws, I'll go to a computer repair shop and talk to them about it. They'll bring out a coffee can full of them and I'll pour a little out at a time on the counter and sort though them. The best part is they have so many of them. They don't even charge me.

Chuck Sartor posted:

Looks like a 6-32 thread.

It's not a 6-32 screw, that's the first one I pulled out.  The threads on a 6-32 are too coarse.

OK, I see from the parts breakdown it is a 2.5 x 6mm screw.

That sounds right.  I just took out my metric screw jar and looked for a couple matches to the existing screw.  I knew it was in the 2.5-3.0 range, and it wasn't an SAE screw.

For issues that small that come with a new product, I have had Lionel send me free of charge and free of shipping. It saves them a warranty cost. Of course, I don't know if they are still doing that.

Norton posted:

Like Earl says these can be had at just about any hardware store these days. MTH uses a mix of english and metric fasteners but pretty sure modern Lionel is all metric.

No luck at the local hardware store. Yes, they have metric, even the correct diameter and length but the thread pitch is incorrect. The local Ace Hardware only offers these screws in .50 pitch. the Lionel screws are .45.

I thought the whole point of the metric system was so things were more standardized.

Dave_C posted:

 Rick, whenever I order parts. I usually buy extra screws and things I really don't need just for the fact they are cheap enough and I'm already paying for shipping. Plus I may need them someday. I have 2 that may work. Just double check the thread, pitch and length on Lionel's site. They are a little longer than what you are showing. 8mm versus 6. 

I appreciate the offer Dave, but looking at the posts those screws may dead head before being flush. This screw is just above the truck so it must be flush so as not to impede the rotation.

Chuck Sartor posted:

OK, I see from the parts breakdown it is a 2.5 x 6mm screw.

2.5 mm x 6.0 mm x .45 thd

OK guys...I had to delete the filthy minded responses from what appears the same folks that think they are funny.  Keep those thoughts to yourself....this is a public forum!

If you have a local Home Depot try them, that's where I go for small screws such as 4-40 and small sheet metal screws

If you don't mind these have a silver head instead of black ( you can touch up with some paint if it bothers you), I can throw a couple in a envelope at no charge if interested, drop a email.

cjack posted:

For issues that small that come with a new product, I have had Lionel send me free of charge and free of shipping. It saves them a warranty cost. Of course, I don't know if they are still doing that.

3 years ago I would have emailed Lionel and the screw would have already been in the mail. They no longer answer emails and I've already spent an hour on hold....wondering there theres even anyone in the service dept to take ever my call.

A .30 cent screw is not worth an hour of my time on hold.

I pray I never have to obtain any warranty service. The warranty may expire before someone picks up the phone.

I don't know. Maybe the Lionels customer service folks are off to rest up for the post holiday overload of defective items.

http://www.microfasteners.com/...etric-stainless.html

$1.80 for 50

I have a black one I can mail, but it has a washer head. If there are four screws on that tender, I could just send the four so they’ll match. No charge, I feel your pain 😳

FWIW, the screws in my H10 tender were round head screws.

Are these screws on the underneath? Just curious. I couldn’t find the engine on the Lionel site.

Screws are on the bottom corners of the tender.

OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:

OK guys...I had to delete the filthy minded responses from what appears the same folks that think they are funny.  Keep those thoughts to yourself....this is a public forum!

Just so you know, I was quoting a running joke from the NBC sitcom "The Office."