VanderSalad
New Member
Hi there fellas. I have absolutely zero experience with model trains in pretty much any capacity, but my wife happened upon the Bachmann Merry Christmas Express N Scale train set at an Amazon Return store and picked up the used set for 8 bucks. The set looks fine from what my uninformed eye can tell, aside from one major thing. The tinderbox (I believe that's the correct name) metal circle connector is broken and I unfortunately made it worse. The engine and tinderbox were not connected and the circle connector of the tinderbox was cracked so it appeared as a "c" shape. I did not realize it was cracked as I assumed that was the normal shape of the connector and upon attempting to finagle it onto the connecting point of the Engine i ended up cold working the metal connector and snapping part of it off. I don't really the money or motivation to buy a replacement engine/tinderbox, I was wondering if it would be possible to solder it back together. Does anyone have any advice for a scenario like this? Sorry for my long winded post, I truly have zero experience in this area, please forgive me for my ignorance