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Connecting Wagon to Loco Without a Coupler
This question is from Dave:
“I want to put wagons in front of a Arnold br44 engine or run a second engine together. Any suggestions on how to do this without front couplers, or is there a product out there? Any help would be grateful.”
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Is this N gauge? If so, Dapol make a conversion kit for fitting NEM Coupler pockets to rolling stock, to allow you to fit various kinds of coupler, including the standard Rapido.
It may involve a degree of surgery to your front pony truck, and you will need to use an appropriate adhesive, e.g. ABS or polystyrene solvent. I have little faith in cyanoacrylate (superglue), except for its originally designed purpose of closing wounds on the battlefield pending surgery.
I am assuming this is in N Scale. Is this a double header issue – if so you will need to do same surgery on the front of your locos. I have done this using Micro couplers from KD.
Thanks for your comments and yes it is N scale I am working with . Living in the country I tend to buy on the internet
Could you please give me a part number for the dapol please.
What about taking the truck off a tank engine ie Br96 or something like that?
Anyway thanks for the comments
Dave
To change the pony truck for one from another loco, you would first of all need very carefully to compare the two for length & overall shape; it may prove much easier than altering the existing truck. Perhaps Arnold’s technical office can give you the necessary guidance.
The Dapol conversion kit is Part No, 2A-000-009 and includes a jig, a few magnetic couplings & some shims to help users adjust the height of the subject loco/wagon/coach drawbar to take the coupler boxes & coupler inserts which are also provided to take the actual coupling. The magnetic couplings come in 3 sizes:
Short Arm 2A-000-011
Medium Arm 2A-000-008
Long Arm 2A-000-013
The medium one and the short one are the ones I use most.
These coupling boxes & coupling arms are to NEM standards; the coupling boxes are compatible with Dapol NEM-Type Rapido Couplings and Dapol non-magnetic knuckle couplings; the latter are available under part No. “NEMCOUP.”
Bachmann/Graham Farish NEM-type Rapido Couplings are not a very good fit in these pockets.
Dapol’s NEM coupler pockets & shims are also available (without the jig) under part No. 2A-000-014.
Thanks Sheldon I now Know that to look out for thanks again Dave