Kadee Whisker Couplers

[Gary S]

Was at the LHS today, they had some of the whisker couplers there, so I bought some. I have always been using the #5 couplers with the brass centering spring plate before. Well, for those of us using magnetic uncoupling, I gotta tell you, the whisker couplers and draft boxes are first rate. The old style centering spring was a pain, both in installation and in getting 100% satisfactory operation. I'd put them together, put them on the test track with the magnet, and would have about a 20% failure rate, then I would squirt some graphitie in, that helped some of them, but the rest would have to be taken apart, a new spring put in, then back on the car, and tested again. Not fun. But what little I have played with the whisker couplers, wow, 100% flawless. I'm feeling much better about the uncoupling now. These things snap over to the uncoupled position when over the magnet, and snap right back to center when off the magnet. Couldn't say that about all the #5s.



Er.... but the bad thing is, Kadee is fixing to get a bunch more of my money