08-02-2014, 11:07 AM
I bought enough for 4 locomotives and 8 cars just to test them out and i switched them back to kadees. Unless I did something wrong, they didn't couple nearly as easy as the videos I saw online. Kadees couple more smoothly at slower (more realistic) speeds, where sergent seems to need an extra "oomph". Also if you're dealing with a switching layout and has an interior loading/unloading siding you basically cant use them. I do like sergent uncoupling much more than kadees. I see videos where people use a scewer to uncouple kadees and to me is much more of pain than the sergent magnetic wand. I have a magnet underneath my track for a siding for the kadees and when you drive over it at low speeds going forward sometimes my cars uncople which is also annoying. I'm going to give the sergents another go only because I saw that if you rub the inside of the pocket where the ball bearing is with graphite from a pencil it acts as lubricant for the knuckle to react more smoothly. But as of now kadees for coupling and sergents for uncoupling.