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WHAT KADEE COUPLER TO USE
Posted by dwbeckett on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:41 AM

As always if you look till your eyes bleed you will find so good info. I found this link very helpfull since I am converting all of my trains to Kadee's 

 www.wholesaletrains.com/GProducts2.asp?Scale=G&Item=KADEE&offset=50

The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 6:45 PM

If you can not see the page that well I think the OS still has a "increase size" but I can not remember were. Here is some more helpful links.

http://www.kadee.com/conv/g1list.pdf

http://www.kadee.com/conv/page-c3.htm

http://www.kadee.com/htmbord/Gplc.htm

Enjoy...

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:40 AM

Why use Kadee at all, the ones i have seen are nothing but trouble.

Rgds Ian

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 25, 2007 8:50 AM
 iandor wrote:

Why use Kadee at all, the ones i have seen are nothing but trouble.

Rgds Ian

 

Dear Ian,

 

Our experience has been that most experienced modelers in any scale sooner or later end up with Kadee couplers or one of the look-a-like copies.

The reasons are very simple: they are very reliable, offer a wide assortment of different styles in most of the scales, look good and, if properly installed in the first instance, need practically no maintenance to give years and years and years of flawless service.

However if one has substandard trackwork, doesn't know how to install them properly, doesn't adhere to what Kadee recommends or knows how to adapt the recommendations to one's own situation.........then there could be problems. But in our experience that is the same with any product! The best product in the hands of slip-shod users can be a disaster .. by no fault of the product!

 

Best regards

 

ER 

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Posted by RR Redneck on Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:03 AM
Kadee is good............FOR INDOORS. I use only Aristo and USA couplers (course i mostly run Aristo and USA).

Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.

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Posted by kstrong on Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:53 AM
The merits of whose coupler is the "best" has been flogged on this and other forums ad infinitum. Dave merely posted a link to assist those who do choose Kadee couplers. Can we leave it at that, and not rehash that which cannot be answered?

Later,

K
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:19 AM
 iandor wrote:

Why use Kadee at all, the ones i have seen are nothing but trouble.

Rgds Ian

If you only seen them, why not try one or two with a small train and couple of cars? Before blasting them?!

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