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<p>[quote user="angelob6660"]</p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">BMMECNYC</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p>Cost:  Compareable or less than Kadee.  But yes you do have to assemble them or pay someone to do so.</p> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>How do you replace them? It looks difficult.</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Not sure what exactly your question is, but its pretty much a one for one swap in most cases (assuming you did not glue your coupler boxes together (have a few of those).  Some coupler boxes that are thinner than others require filing get a sergent to fit (also the kadee that was replaced needed to be filed). </p> <p>Responses to other comments:</p> <p>Yes I agree, most modelers do not photograph their models. </p> <p>Sergents, assembled per the instructions, are every bit as reliable as a kadee, in some cases more so.  I have yet to have an unintentional uncoupling on our modular layout due to couplers slipping over each other.  Have had plenty with Kadee. </p> <p>Also I can couple on a curve due to no centering spring (yes you can omit the kadee spring or cut the whiskers off).</p> <p>Double shelf couplers for modern era modelers cannot physically be uncoupled without a magnet, the shelfs are actually interlocking (this could be considered good or bad depending on if you loose your magnet, if only a few cars you can turn them upside down and they will uncouple). </p> <p>I started out by cutting my trip pins off of my Kadees.  Eventually got tired of doing that (different pins on kadee clones are made of harder metals that like to destroy lesser cutters, Rapido HO passenger cars especially).</p> <p>There is no spring that can fall out of the coupler (optional spring that goes inside the coupler box for added side to side resistance).</p> <p>But to each his own.  I prefer to count this particular rivet on my own trains and on published photographs.  To me, even with weathering and trip pin removed, a Kadee #5 just looks wrong.  The X2f by and far looks horrible; it served its purpose until something better came along.  That was the Kadee.  I beleive the Sergent is at least equal to the Kadee in cost and reliability, and is superior in appearance.  These are my opinions. </p>
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