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I haven't tried the recent McHenry offerings with real knuckle springs, but I had problems with their older plastic finger model. When I started in model railroading (again), I bought a quantity of the McHenrys and installed them in any model that came with the horn-hook type.They were cheap. <br /> <br />My worst complaint was unwanted uncoupling, particularly of a caboose or any other car with little coupler strain, when running over an uncoupling magnet at scale speed. I replaced them with Kadees and the problems disappeared. In my limited experience a few cars with shallow draft gear boxes (like some from MDC Roundhouse) are better with the thinner plastic Accumates.
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