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Originally Posted by Unsullied_Spy
What I was trying was a hot soldering iron pressed directly onto the grub screw while trying to pry it off with a pair of pliers and could not get it to move at all. I must not have gotten it hot enough fast enough though. I don't like to keep the soldering iron on for too long, maybe a minute, because that heat will go right down the shaft and start to heat the magnets up and I don't want to ruin a motor over a pinion. I have a Butane casette lighter that I could try next time I use red loctite on a pinion.
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Yeah, I wouldn't think that a soldering iron could get it hot enough quickly. Most irons are fairly low wattage (below 60 watts) so they can't heat up a large volume of steel very quickly. (we have to use special 270 watt irons to solder to boards like the MMM -- just because of the amount of copper in the board...)