Reply to "Help Needed with American Flyer Repair"

Craig DonathOGR Forum Member

Originally Posted by repair technician:

Craig Donath as far as your question it is very common on American Flyer s gauge engines the the 2 or 4 wire s between the tender and locomotive do break and you can buy those harness's from ebay already made up. a lot of the original harness's are a carbon based wire and are very flexible but break easily from flexing on the curves. just buy the 2 or 4 wires harness's off ebay they are already cut and made to install on the engine in the back of the cab and inside the tender, as long as you know how to solder you'll have no problem,. if you can find then let me know and I'll post the address on ebay for the harness's

Good luck

Alan

I actually didn't post a question. My post was in response to the question posted by markjs about (I assume) simply reattaching the wires to a late style 2-prong plug. The note in the Portlines link mentions how to make such a repair.

7/6/1510:23 PM

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