Jon - if you mean the "mechanical" gauge, with a fluid/gas filled capillary tube, it's not easily DIY repairable, although there's some instructions here and there are places around that rebuild them, or useta be .... so no, it can't be soldered, and while it's not necessarily ruined you'd prolly be better off trying to find another unmolested gauge

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature we find it attached to the rest of the world" John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics & Rust-a-holics Unanimous parking lot