I’ve got some Athearn/Genesis cars that have McHenry couplers. What is your coupler of choice? Kadee or McHenry? TIA
Dan
Dan, my self and around 90% of the people here use Kadee’s.
I’d say there’s two camps on the issue - some people change out the McHenrys for Kadees right when they first buy a new engine or car; others wait and use the McHenrys until they fail and then replace them with Kadees. The unifying factor is that eventually the car or engine gets Kadees.
I’m one of the ones that swap out the original couplers for Kadee’s before anything new see’s the layout.
Me too. Everything gets KDs before going on the layout.
Nick
I’m one of the 10 percenter’s. I use McHenry, Kadee or Accumate whichever is handy at the time I put a kit together or whatever comes with a RTR item.
No problems here with durability or compatibility.
Mark Gosdin
As long as you don’t abuse them, there’s nothing wrong with McHenry couplers. I don’t change them unless they begin to fail, which has hardly ever been necessary since McHenry started using spings in the knuckles.
Sergent Engineering Couplers…nothing else comes close to them for prototypical apperance and operation…and they are cheaper than Kadees to boot!
David B
Is pulling 50 car trains abuse? All the plastic generic knuckle couplers are inferior to Kadee couplers.
I know I’m an extremist, but in my view, either use regular head Kadee couplers or go to Sergent couplers for the full prototype effect.
Everything on my railroad gets original head Kadee couplers before it ever couples to another piece of equipment.
Sheldon
My Athearn SD40-2 came with those McHenry things. When I was shoving the couplers/boxes back into place after installing a decoder, the darn knuckles collapsed. So far as I’m concerned they should be called McJunk.
Maybe you’re just too McStrong…you’re right though, those couplers are weak.