How can you enable close coupling?
Just added something on the topic on page 3 here:
Mount the couplers closer together?
Jim
There are options: you can buy short-shank couplers, or you can fill in the threaded hole and drill and tap a little further in, making sure the draft gear box doesn’t interfer with the axel of the closest wheel set. I used the short shank couplers on my diesel units to bring them to the proper distance apart which in the case of 'F’s is 3 feet. But don’t expect to run on 18" radius curves, eh? jc 5729 John Colley, Port Townsend, WA
I’m completely lost on this forum, short-shank? draft gear? ‘F’=3 feet? what language is this? The title “Realistic coupling” I interpreted as coupling without the use of the giant hand and the bamboo skewer, was I wrong.
tatans,
look at http://kadee.com/
There’re all those different couplers and their meanings.
Wolfgang
The OP says “close coupling” in the body of his post.
Didn’t McHenry come out with a close coupling setup for F units? I thought it was a complete kit to do 2 F units??
‘Close coupling’ is simple. Buy Kadee #43, #33, (or #23) couplers. (Stewart F Diesels #450); (Genesis Fs #38+#33s).
CAVEAT: They require more generous curves than many modelers have. I have 27" min. + #4s, #6s.
Get the Kadee #TH23, tiny hand, and reach in and lift the cut levers.[8D]
…but the title of thethread is something different.
I was expecting a thread about Sergent Engineering Couplers, not close coupling.
David B