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Ok Noah - now I understand your problem. I'm not sure if the 0-80 mounting option will work for you either. Try these sugestions: I had this problem mounting a coupler on the pilot of my Athearn Genesis Mike. Here I used a #36 coupler, but no matter the principle's the same, I used a plastic 2-56 screw that Kadee supply in their 30 series coupler packs. I drilled and tapped as before but once the coupler was mounted right I trimmed the screw flush with the upper side of the pilot deck with a sharp blade. The pilot deck was checker plate, so I scored across the top of the screw in line with the rest of the grooves and touched it up with grimy black paint, you had to look fairly hard to see it. If the area where the screw is going to come through is really obvious you could try mounting the box with the plastic 0-80 screws. The ideas the same but the screws that come up through the car floor are now much much smaller. Otherwise you are into cementing the box in place and praying nothing goes wrong[}:)]
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