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John Perkowski All Messages By This Member #12572 I’m contemplating buying some Fleischmann N scale equipment: a steam locomotive, A diesel, and several passenger cars. Fleischmann still uses Rapido couplers. ?Has anyone converted Fleischmann equipment from Rapido to microscale? How much of a process is it? as a second question, are Kato cars/couplers and Micro-scale cars/couplers compatible? I’d like to Be able to make up a city of St. Louis or a Los Angeles Limited from the cars in my coach yard. ? Thank you, all -- John Perkowski BNSF (CB&Q) MP 9.6 Along the route of the Pioneer Zephyr Parkville, MO
Charlie Vlk #12573 开云体育 John- ? Micro-Trains couplers can be fit to just about any rolling stock.? The conversion can be as simple as using (if you can find it) the Micro-Trains T-Shank coupler in the Rapido draft gear.? Even simpler is using a Fox Valley / Red Caboose / Precision Masters dummy coupler which just replaces the Rapido.? It won’t have the operational features of a M-T but then neither will the T-Shank coupler which is a loose fit and a compromise product to begin with given all the slop and variations in Rapido coupler mounts. The current issue of N Scale Railroading has an article on coupler interchangability which has some information that might be useful even though I don’t agree with all the observations and conclusions the author comes to.? ?Short answer is that Kato couplers work fine with M-T. Contact me off-list when you get the equipment, take pictures and maybe I can give you some guidance on how to convert the Fleisschmann stuff. Charlie Vlk BRHS #24 Middle Tennessee ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John Perkowski via groups.io Sent: Friday, August 26, 2022 2:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [N-scaleVarnish] Couplers ? I’m contemplating buying some Fleischmann N scale equipment: a steam locomotive, A diesel, and several passenger cars. Fleischmann still uses Rapido couplers. ?Has anyone converted Fleischmann equipment from Rapido to microscale? How much of a process is it? as a second question, are Kato cars/couplers and Micro-scale cars/couplers compatible? I’d like to Be able to make up a city of St. Louis or a Los Angeles Limited from the cars in my coach yard. ? Thank you, all -- John Perkowski BNSF (CB&Q) MP 9.6 Along the route of the Pioneer Zephyr Parkville, MO
Ken N All Messages By This Member #12574 开云体育 John, You might wait to see what these N-Possible couplers look like when they’re available: Ken N Oxnard, CA toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Aug 27, 2022, at 6:04 AM, [email protected] wrote: 1a. Couplers ??From: John Perkowski <johnwperkowski@...> ??Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 12:14:49 PDT I’m contemplating buying some Fleischmann N scale equipment: a steam locomotive, A diesel, and several passenger cars. Fleischmann still uses Rapido couplers. ?Has anyone converted Fleischmann equipment from Rapido to microscale? How much of a process is it? as a second question, are Kato cars/couplers and Micro-scale cars/couplers compatible? I’d like to Be able to make up a city of St. Louis or a Los Angeles Limited from the cars in my coach yard. Thank you, all -- John Perkowski BNSF (CB&Q) MP 9.6 Along the route of the Pioneer Zephyr Parkville, MO
Randy Leclair All Messages By This Member #12576 Those are very cool. Any idea on when? -Randy
Ken N All Messages By This Member #12577 Randy, I emailed the only person I know in the area that might have gone to th Nscale convention, but he couldn’t make it due to work. So, unless someone knows anyone else to ask, I have no clue when they’ll start sales. Ken N Oxnard, CA toggle quoted message Show quoted text Re: Couplers From: Randy Leclair <> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 17:47:14 PDT Those are very cool. Any idea on when? -Randy
Randy Leclair All Messages By This Member #12578 Thanks Ken. Tired of the herky-jerky mts... -R

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