A short answer is yes; I've built a number of sheet-brass locomotives and cars
with only a soldering gun (the higher wattage one works
better) before I finally bought a resistance soldering unit. A longer answer
is complicated by your statement that your soldering skills
are not yet where you would like them. Or to put it another way, the cab can
be resoldered pretty straightforwardly, just not by you.
Do you have some friends (in whatever scale) nearby who would do it for you?
An even longer answer would involve the often-rehearsed hints on soldering
brass: clean surfaces, non-acidic flux, high-content tin solder,
and plenty of heat localized on the joint.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> With all of the talk on working with brass, I have a question. The cab on my
> OMI
> SW1500 brass switcher came apart from the hood while I was installing a sound
> system. Can the two pieces be joined together using a soldering iron? I don't
> have a resistance soldering system or a torch. Too expensive right now. The
> two
> pieces will fit together easily because they came apart at the old solder
> joint.
> I've tried to solder some brass before with little or no success. Any advice
> will be appreciated.
>
> Ed Davis
> Stockton
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