richhotrainI just ordered enough Kadee #148 whisker couplers to replace the factory equipped couplers on all 16 tank cars.
Smart move. Our club runs long trains, and we mandate metal knuckle couplers,. Say what you want about competing products, but in our experience, you rarely go wrong using Kadees.
Only inside a gondola as a scrap load, never on the ends.
maxman BRAKIEThe Walthers all metal Protomax II couper works as well as the KD after all its a exact duplicate of KD's #5 including the brass centering spring. It might be my imagination, but I seem to think that the Protomax is slightly larger. But maybe the water around here is bad.
BRAKIEThe Walthers all metal Protomax II couper works as well as the KD after all its a exact duplicate of KD's #5 including the brass centering spring.
It might be my imagination, but I seem to think that the Protomax is slightly larger. But maybe the water around here is bad.
If they are larger I can't see the difference when the Protomax II coupled to a KD #5 or 148.
Of course I don't own calipers either so,the Protomax II might be one or two thousandths of a inch bigger.(shruggs)
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
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steemtrayn18,000+ posts and you're just finding out plastic couplers suck? I find that hard to believe.
Oh, wait. You're from New Jersey!!!
Rich
Alton Junction
richhotrain steemtrayn 18,000+ posts and you're just finding out plastic couplers suck? I find that hard to believe. Here's what I find hard to believe, Dave. I started this thread 3 weeks ago, and it took you this long to find it??? Oh, wait. You're from New Jersey!!! Rich
steemtrayn 18,000+ posts and you're just finding out plastic couplers suck? I find that hard to believe.
Here's what I find hard to believe, Dave. I started this thread 3 weeks ago, and it took you this long to find it???
Did you know that in New Jersey you are not allowed to pump your own gas?
What is with that? What exactly does that say about the government? or the people?
Living here in northern/central Maryland all my life, I know New Jersey reasonably well, it's not far, and we travel to the south Jersey beaches with some regularity, Cape May in particular being old house people.
But they do some strange stuff up there........
Sheldon
Kadee offers plastic couplers, too...they seem to work fine.
I've used Bachmann's EZMATE plastic couplers and McHenry's plastic couplers on rolling stock and locomotives bought on the "used" market, and while I'm slowly converting many of my locos and rolling stock to various versions of Kadee's "scale" couplers, I've never had any problems with the aforementioned brands equipped with metal knuckle springs. The McHenry's with the "finger-type" plastic knuckle springs, however, were nothing but trouble right from the start.
I've been using Kadees right from when I started in HO in the mid-'50s.
Wayne