I've just tried to remove the cast metal base of an early Hornby Schools tender so that I could replace the traction tyres. Despite following the instructions on the service sheet, I couldn't pop the chassis block out and landed up destroying the connecting pin and breaking some of the fine detail off the tender chassis. Has anyone ever managed to separate these two parts of the tender, or did I just have a bad one?
I'm reluctant to try and get new parts if I'm going to land up breaking something everytime I try and replace the traction tyres. :(