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A few hobby shops carry a limitrd variety of tiny metric screws.  I suggest buying a screw gauge to determine diameter, and then going on line and order a broad selection.  Shipping wouls probably be less than MTH's price.d what sizes are generally use

I would ask GRJ &GGG what they do to keep in stock a selection of needed screw sizes, and what sizes are most used.

 

 

I know these are internet sources, but Micro Fasteners may have them and I don't remember their shipping costs being too outrageous a year or so ago?  Another one would be McMaster Carr, don't know about their shipping rates? Also Ace hardware has some small screws.

 

As for MTH and their $9.50 shipping minimum, Lionel has the same policy. I ordered some tiny springs for 25 or 50 cents each from them a while back, it was just like your screws, $9 or $10 for shipping, $1 or $2 for the parts.

I had to go to Lowes this evening, so I checked.  My Lowes has metric machine bolts down to M3, in 3 lengths.  I think most MTH bolts are M2.

 

rtr12:  When you need small parts, another solution is to e-mail one of the techs, like GRJ or GGG, for their shipping might be less.  I don't know what the webmaster's reaction would be to posting requests to buy parts.  That could be a whole new forum, but then the techs would be trying to bid against each other and that probably wouldn't be healthy for them.

Unfortunately, GGG, Taylor has not yet moved beyond Tidewater.

 

Am I correct is assuming that most MTH machine bolts are M2?

 

Maybe when MTH re-issues its promised master parts catalog it will contain screw & bolt sizes. 

 

I have also had problems finding the replacement screws that go into plastic, but I have never seen metric screws in hardware stores.

Originally Posted by RJR:

I had to go to Lowes this evening, so I checked.  My Lowes has metric machine bolts down to M3, in 3 lengths.  I think most MTH bolts are M2.

 

rtr12:  When you need small parts, another solution is to e-mail one of the techs, like GRJ or GGG, for their shipping might be less.  I don't know what the webmaster's reaction would be to posting requests to buy parts.  That could be a whole new forum, but then the techs would be trying to bid against each other and that probably wouldn't be healthy for them.

Thanks RJR, will keep that in mind. Hopefully it won't be happening too often.

 

Someone mentioned DigiKey, don't know if they have screws, but their shipping rates are the cheapest I have seen (next to the free shipping from Asia offered on some ebay items). They have great packaging and I don't think they have ever charged me over a couple buck for shipping on small orders and they ship extremely fast. Great place!  Gunrunnerjohn is the one that told me about DigiKey, it was a great tip, thanks again John!

That's what I have, and a similar book for the Premier which bears the date 1999.   Unfortunately, screw sizes aren't given, just the MTH part number.  I suspect that most of the parts showsn other than electronics, are still used on similar locos made in this century.

 

Not having a list of everything MTH had made by that time, I can't check for completeness.  The R-K book is 14mm thick and bears a $5 price.  The Premier book says $2. 

 

Thanks for the lead, MRich.

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