08-01-2014, 09:20 PM
The October 2013 issue of Model Railroader has a pretty good article by Pelle Søeborg showing how he installed the Sergent couplers on his equipment. Don't have it handy right now, but he shows some of the modifications he had to make to coupler pockets, locomotive pilots, etc. in order to install them. In some cases, he had to add shims to the pockets on some cars and other modifications.
The Sergent couplers really look great and I've thought about trying them out myself, but with over 100 cars and a dozen locomotives, the cost is just too much; not to mention I can't see myself putting them together! Have thought about installing them on one locomotive and a few cars, but for now I'll just stick with manually uncoupling the scale size couplers I already have on all my equipment.
The Sergent couplers really look great and I've thought about trying them out myself, but with over 100 cars and a dozen locomotives, the cost is just too much; not to mention I can't see myself putting them together! Have thought about installing them on one locomotive and a few cars, but for now I'll just stick with manually uncoupling the scale size couplers I already have on all my equipment.
Ed
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