Removing The Shell - GMC Rapido F9B Operating Manual

books anyway. Secondly, in order to have functional diaphragms we would have
had to make large cuts into the rear of the unit, which would have looked extremely
silly once you took the diaphragms off. If you are displaying your F9B locomotive or
you have 96" radius curves, you can attach the diaphragms with white glue or CA.
If your locomotive has a ladder in the parts bag, it's because they were installed on
some F7B and F9B locomotives and tended to migrate. Refer to prototype photos
for placement.
And finally, you'll also find a couple of speed recorder cables in the parts bag too.
Some roads typically installed these on their locomotives, but CP and CN typically
did not. That said, the parts are all in the same mould as ones actually on the
locomotive, so we've included them anyway. Feel free to add them to whatever you
feel like. Consider them freebies (and who doesn't like freebies?).

REMOVING THE SHELL

Removing the shell can be a real production. Here's how to do it. Oh, and if you
damage, destroy or immolate your engine in the process, it is unfortunately not
covered under warranty; once you open it up, you are on your own. If you break
some bits and we have them available, we will of course be happy to send you
replacements.
Go back to your workbench. You have to use the CP hand towel for this. Everything
else is not allowed. Lay the F9B on its roof, on the towel. If you have a "Pac Man"
Multimark logo towel, it should be just to the right of the logo. If you have any other
CP logo towel, please send it to us. In fact, we want the Pac Man Multimark towel
too. Do you have any CN ones? We need more towels.
Remove both coupler boxes and slide them out from your locomotive. Then remove
the four shell retention screws – they are located just inside of the trucks. Once the
screws are out, just start wiggling the shell off. It will eventually pop off.
If any parts go flying in this process, pick the parts up off of the floor/table/chair/
your lap/ceiling/air vent/bookshelf and place them on the other side of the Pac Man
logo. The parts are easily reinstalled using a bit of glue.
Normally we'd have told you about a transporter lock on the molecular pattern of
the part that flew away. That allows us to lock on to any little part that falls off your
locomotive and beam it directly into the heart of the sun. Unfortunately, due to a
failed software update (ok, someone dropped it on the floor), the transporter lock
has been retired. We are currently attempting to replace it with Jason's vintage 1998
Power Macintosh All-in-One computer. It's currently stuck on the Happy Mac face.
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