Darned those steam locomotive pilot couplers!

[nachoman]

thanks Wayne, the whisker coupler is a good idea.

I wound up taking an old #4 which already has a hole in the shank that only needed slight enlarging for an 00-80 screw. I cut off the shank behind the hole, and used a screw to attach it. This is for an HOn3 pilot - and the Kadee HOn3 coupler pretty much needs a coupler box for the knuckle to open, so mounting that kind of coupler without a box wasn't an option. I wish I could use a "scale" head Kadee in it's place, but the shank is not wide enough for my 00-80 screw, and the shank is too long otherwise. The HOn3 couplers will couple to the standard size couplers just fine, it just looks a little large.