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When you can, use the preassembled couplers. Assembling the others, trying to keep the tiny spring in place, is a real challenge. You might want to do this in or over a large box. When those tiny springs go flying off into the carpet, they're usually lost for good. I would recomend the Microtrains gadget that you can check your coupler height with. When I started out in N scale, almost everything came with Rapido couplers. Now that knuckle couplers are becoming the norm, its a whole lot easier. Back then I kept a conversion car (a car with one end Microtrains couplers and the other end Rapido couplers) or two around. I gradually converted my rolling stock, buying a few conversions with every paycheck. Ah, the good old days! NOT! Have fun!
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