OK, now I am really, really steamed at Kato Parts Dept.! - Model Railroader Magazine

bogp40

I would reccomend the use of Loctite (red) to set the axles into the Kato gear. I have used this for all my NW Shortline replacements. Get a feel for the depth of the axle w/ a dry run before using the loctite. You don't have that much time to set the guage once done. The Kato drive is still one of the smoothest and most reliable that I have found. I would try to keep the origional gears in the truck that has broken in, providing the gear isn't damaged.  

Thanks for the tip.  I had in the back of my mind that there was some other product that I hadn't thought of when I was trying to think of adhesives.

With the loctite, is it not possible to apply this to the axle once inside the gear hub and set to the right gauge....is it not supposed to run down or be drawn in like the other thin adhesives?.or is it best to drop a little in the hole?......because I find that it does take a moment to get the wheels pushed in to the correct depth.  I would not want to have to start cutting off incorrectly set gears.

I am surprised at this problem with these locos, because, as we know, they run very nicely.  Maybe just a aging thing with these which are the older Atlas/Kato jobs.