new kadee boxes

[jim currie]

has anyone else found that the new engineered plastic boxes are harder to install? they are harder to glue together I have resorted to touching the edges with a hot soldering iron.
Jim

[Charlie B]

has anyone else found that the new engineered plastic boxes are harder to install? they are harder to glue together I have resorted to touching the edges with a hot soldering iron.
Jim

Jim I don't glue them most of the time but I have discovered that styrene glue no longer works, in fact I am beginning to think CA won't work like it used to. I only have about 25 cars left to assemble and most of them have the coupler pockets that take a screw. If they keep making things better in the hobby we will all be playing solitaire with a deck of 51 
Charlie

[jim currie]

has anyone else found that the new engineered plastic boxes are harder to install? they are harder to glue together I have resorted to touching the edges with a hot soldering iron.
Jim

Jim I don't glue them most of the time but I have discovered that styrene glue no longer works, in fact I am beginning to think CA won't work like it used to. I only have about 25 cars left to assemble and most of them have the coupler pockets that take a screw. If they keep making things better in the hobby we will all be playing solitaire with a deck of 51 
Charlie

your right about ca not working . what i needed them glued for was changing couplers in Walther's track cleaning car found out you can't remove trucks so I needed the boxes in one piece.
Jim

[cnrglen]

Sorry I didn't notice this until now. I've had to use the soldering iron trick for HOn3 couplers in the past which are derived from N scale couplers. I guess the HO ones are made from the same material now.
On the other hand, I have a life time supply of the old styrene ones for #5 sets that went into stock kit coupler boxes

[jim currie]

Sorry I didn't notice this until now. I've had to use the soldering iron trick for HOn3 couplers in the past which are derived from N scale couplers. I guess the HO ones are made from the same material now.
On the other hand, I have a life time supply of the old styrene ones for #5 sets that went into stock kit coupler boxes

you know i thought i did too, so I pinched some and now I regret that.
Jim