06-25-2011, 02:45 PM
While I haven't brought myself to use the 'scale' size couplers, I do now use the whisker variety whenever posisble (I still have some good old #5's to use up). The whiskers are particularly handy with Athearn cars with those metal snap-on cover plates. With a regular #5 you had to manage the car, the coupler, the flat spring, and try to get the lid on. With a whisker, no more flat spring to worry about.
I do replace EVERY knockoff coupler with real kadee, they are the only ones I have found to be completely reliable.
Dunno if I will swap all of them out for the scale size, I think my next major project will be paiting all the couplers. That should help make them look a bit smaller. I just got done putting resistors on the wheels of all the cars I run on the club layout, and painting the wheels, and polishing the treads.
--Randy
I do replace EVERY knockoff coupler with real kadee, they are the only ones I have found to be completely reliable.
Dunno if I will swap all of them out for the scale size, I think my next major project will be paiting all the couplers. That should help make them look a bit smaller. I just got done putting resistors on the wheels of all the cars I run on the club layout, and painting the wheels, and polishing the treads.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad of the 1950's in HO
Visit my web site to see layout progress and other information:
http://www.readingeastpenn.com
Visit my web site to see layout progress and other information:
http://www.readingeastpenn.com