Re: (erielack) Couplers and draft gear

[Mark Kerlick <kerlick_@_worldnet.att.net>]

In the interim, one might use the new Accu mate Scale coupler.  Rather
inexpensive, and if Kadee decides to change, it would be an easy
retrofit  Mark

MDelvec952_@_aol.com wrote:
> 
> Was at Paul Tup's the other night and he showed me Kadee's Susquehanna PS-1,
> which had the oversize No.5 coupler but correct draft gear.  It looked
> wonderful.  My cheif beef with the new scale-ish No.58 couplers is that they
> require the grossely oversized Kadee draft gear, which looks even bigger with
> the smaller No.58 coupler.
> 
> The following is a note from Railway Prototype Cyclopedia-publisher Ed
> Hawkins from the freightcars list about getting Kadee to produce the scale
> No.58 to fit the scale draft gear on the PS-1s, and perhaps making scale
> draft gear boxes to retrofit other models.  There enough modelers on this
> list who might make a dent in Kadee's production plans.  Drop 'em an e-mail,
> please.
> 
> Back to your regularly schedule programming.
> 
>                         ....Mike
> 
> >>The Kadee #58 couplers have the same shank as the #5 and was designed as a
> "plug-in" for their conventional #5 coupler boxes. The #58s will not fit
> inside the narrower scale-size draft gear box used on their PS-1 models.
> However, I wouldn't be at all surprised if (sometime in the future) Kadee
> makes a coupler that marries the coupler head of the #58 and the narrow shank
> of their PS-1 coupler. This coupler would likely be offered in a package with
> scale-width draft gear boxes like those supplied with the PS-1 models. I make
> no guarantees that this will occur. May I suggest that Kadee will be more
> likely to produce such a coupler if they hear requests for them from
> potential customers like yourself. Their e-mail address is: mail_@_kadee.com.
> Regards,  Ed Hawkins  <<

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