Fitting Kadee's to Hornby lighted Pullmans.
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#451 - extended swing gearbox with medium centerset coupler.
Alternatively, Parkside Dundas NEM mounting blocks at the ends, BachmannNEM pockets from their NEM couplers, and Kadee #20 NEM couplers.
My hobby shop has some old stock for things like Rivarossi passenger cars and logging trucks that are quite long and pivot, I'll check them out if you want.
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Or just get rid of the mechanism and put a regular Kadee #5 at the end. Adjust height with styrene. The coupler head middle needs to be level with or slightly ahead of the buffer heads.
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Are these with an NEM pocket? If so #19-20 should be a straight slot in. My hobby shop has 506-508 in stock, these are meant to attach to the truck/bogie frame of 4-6 wheel passenger stock. Illustrated on the Kadee website under Conversion Kits. Nice long arms that would negate chopping the body up. $4.25-$5.45 + 15.7% tax, PM me if you can't get them in the UK. Having said that, it's easy enough to attach a strip of styrene or brass to the bogie and attach a #5 on the other end. Put the swing mechanism in the storage box.
The only couplers a #5 do not like are the fine scale ones, everything else is compatible. Even then it's only an issue if magnetic uncoupling is used. I prefer whisker types, no messing around with brass spring boxes. A whisker Kadee (14x series) is quite happy in a #5 box.
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I posted on this some time ago.
This what it looks like on a wagon. The Parkside Dundas block often needs a bit of fettling to get the height right.
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Yes, I've discovered the blocks need a bit of trimming to get the height right. I'd not used Parkside Dundas before, but they were quick with my order, so I was able to get on with sorting the coaches. Having removed the mechanism, it still didn't leave an awful lot of room for the block to fit, and cut down as much as possible, even a Kadee 17 still protrudes in front of the buffer faces, meaning that there is a greater than normal gap between each coach, but at least they will negotiate curves without buffer lock or derailing. I may look at alternative coupling types to see if I can close the gap a bit more but still avoid buffer locking.
Thanks for your help,
Keith.
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I did contact Kadee direct but they couldn't do anything about either the postage or the lack of stock levels. A very helpful guy nevertheless but he wasn't the "man at the top" ………….
I'll have to get a few bits from here and a few bits from there - additional handling costs but I can't find an alternative.
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I suppose you pays your money and takes your choice ……….;-)
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I have no idea why Kadee have such ridiculous shipping charges - maybe they don't want to be bothered with "furriners" ……….:roll:
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Kadee #17-#20 are $3.76 a packet from the supplier I use (Modeltrainstuff.com), bulk pack of #5's (no draft box) 20 pairs $19.99.
They ship international, have an automatic USPS calculator at checkout, you have to register.
I'm quite happy to source and ship the odd 2-3 packets at cost, especially if I am going to a show, which avoids mailing costs to me. Next one is in August. PM me.
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Just been on the "Modeltrainstuff" website, and worked out a price for 4x No11 Kadee's (20 pairs of No5's) and 8x No 242 Kadee's (10 pairs of 'gearbox's), giving me enough complete coupling assemblies for the rest of my rolling stock. Total including post worked out at $151.03, which equates to £96.69. Our wonderful Post Office charges us £8 for the privilege of 'handling' our overseas mail, and then our equally wonderful UK Revenue and Customs adds almost 25% onto that total in import duty and VAT, so a grand total of around £130.85.
If I buy the same amount of No5's from Hattons, it's 4x £16.50 + £4 delivery, the No 242's I can get from P & H Models, 8x £2.50 + £3.50 post
(Hattons don't list the 242's). A grand total of £93.50, so you can see that despite Kadee's high shipping cost, it still doesn't make financial sense to import direct unfortunately.
Up until 4 years ago, I had a Cruiser motorcycle, many accessories for which I sourced direct from the US at very advantageous prices, but at that time, Sterling was very high against the US dollar, postage and also import duty was much less…….would that it were the same now!
Keith.
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