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Kadee couplers.
The Lima wagon - just cut the old units off & dump them. Make a new base glued to the chassis to hold the Kadee pocket just like I did on this Hornby Vangranted I also added bogies but if gives you the idea ( I hope)
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Unfortunately I had finished the conversion before I read your email.
I cut off the old coupler and mounted a #5 on top of what was left of the shaft. The light has faded so i will post a photo of the finished job later but to give everyone an idea of what I did here is the "before" photo
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Here is the promised photo of the LIMA NCB wagon with the Kadee coupling attached - again I used super glue as the screws arrived after I had completed the conversion. Not up to Sol's standard yet - but it works and to me it looks better than the original coupling.
Now I'm going to attempt to fit Kadees to an olf Hornby Railfreight wagon I have removed the moulded couplings and will work out the Kadee box height using blue tag whilst I ponder on how to permantly fit the Kadee box.
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There is no base as such with the metal weight clearly visible behind the beams.
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and this one is glued & screwed & the styrene is bigger
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Did you cut the styrene to fit in between the beams or is the styrene glued on top of them?
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246 Tap (2-56) and Drills (#50 and #43)
247 Tap (1-72) and Drills (#53 and #48)
780 Tap (0-80) and Drills (#55 and #52)
They include the tap, tap drill and clearance drill. Easy to remove and adjust with shims if needed.
Kadee also sells washers that fit inside the coupler box to correct droop on couplers with long shanks.
They also fit bogie pins for adjusting ride height on a car with a fixed draft gear.
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Staying on the thread Kevin.
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I would like to add my thanks , for all the time and effort you have spent compiling tis tutorial .
I have been contemplating converting my rolling stock to Kadee. but I must admit ,that every time I
start to read all the different combinations of couplers , I get confused , and push it to one side .
Now with your tutorial at hand , I think I will have another go .
Thanks once again Sol
Regards Ted
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Lots of very, very useful information in there. :thumbs
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Staying on the thread Kevin.
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Staying on the thread Kevin.
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