06-18-2009, 08:56 AM
BR60103 Wrote:I just checkd with the micrometer again. The Kadees (148 and 158) are .056" thick while the Bachmanns are just under .050". The Kadee packet says thy are .056, so that's right.
I must think. Maybe the McHenrys will fit.
Are you talking about a problem on the locomotive tender only or every car in the train as well? .006" is not really very much to take off. Even if you need to do every coupler on every car in the train, you are probably only talking about a dozen or so couplers. I think if it were me I would just glue a piece of wet or dry paper to a block and sand off .003 top and bottom of the coupler shank at least as far as they go into the coupler box. The other option that is even less work is to buy one of those sanding sponges from your local home improvement store and use that to sand off a bit from the couplers.