EZ Mate Steel Track Connectors

[josten]

Some of the tiny metal connectors on the end of the track came off.  I'm actually missing 3.  What are they called?  Can I order a pack of them or do I have to get new track sections?  They must have something to do with electricity or signals flowing through the track because the engine won't run now.

[THB-DAVE]

You need Atlas HO Universal Rail Joiners (Nickel Silver) (48 pcs./pk). You can pick them up ay any Model train store or from Atlas directly.

Dave

[bevernie]

 :DGREETINGS!! Yes, they definitely have something to do with it, for without them, you do not have a completed circuit! The electricity must have a complete (clean) path, and those "rail joiners" complete that circuit!!
                                                                                                 THANX!!
                                                                                                Ernie

[Joe Satnik]

Dear Josten,

I think you mean EZ-Track

EZ-Mate is Bachmann's HO knuckle coupler.

I think it takes a jack-hammer and explosives to remove the metal rail connectors from HO EZ-Track.

How did they just "come off"?  Are you sure you have Bachmann's EZ-Track?

170 is the item number for the Atlas' HO rail connector. 

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Joe Satnik

[Yampa Bob]

Perhaps "Murphy's Law Number Two"?

I tried removing a damaged joiner once and pulled the whole rail out. 

[THB-DAVE]

I have taken quite a few EZ track rail joiners off and I found the best method is to use needle nose pliers with lots of side to side and twisting motions to finese them off.

Dave