[HO] coupler poll

Back in the daze, Mantua hook and loop. Cheap, simple, and they worked well with the appropriate low-priced uncoupling ramp.

Now daze, I use Kadees. Lots pricier, not so functional, and lotta times a giant tree comes down out'n the sky to perform the uncoupling rite.

What HO folks need is something like Lionel (un)couplers, eh. Push a button and it's done.

Tejas Pedro

"Klaus D. Mikkelsen" wrote

This is going to come as quite a surprise to the British, Scots, Welch, and Irish.

"Greg Procter" wrote

And apparently you're no good at those either, Harvy.

Accumate Scale Coupler. for the smaller size and narrow pocket.

Howard Garner

"Random Excess" wrote

(A) In case you've been pulling a Rip Van Winkle for the last 20 years,

(B) "Not so functional"? In what way? Having used both, I'd give the edge to Kaydee's functionality; hands down.

(C) Uncoupling via ramps/magnets or any electronic method is even *more* unprototypical than using a probe: real trains are almost always uncoupled by hand. (And "giant trees" in HO scale would be roughly 41" long by 1.3" wide at the base, which seems more than a little bit oversized for an uncoupling probe.)

"Flying saplings" would be more like it.

Just a *bit* impractical from a cost and complexity standpoint.

-Pete

"P. Roehling" skriver:

No - because most of them has never left the "Empire".

I'm going there next week............Huntingdon - Cambridgeshire

Klaus

Because of my eyesight, legaly blind, its the only coupler I can manage to instal without losing all the parts! ;) Besides almost all entry level train sets and rolling stock have these. Again being on disability one has to make do with what they have.

They work fine for me as well. although I have had my share of problems when backing up a cut of cars, they do what they were intended to. couple cars.

Check out DCCuncoupling.com They make a decoder/solenoid set up that works very well.

"Welch"? :-)

Anyway, the worst thing the UK ever did was join Europe. Now the UK is inundated by stupid regulations eminating from Brussels.

-- Cheers

Roger T. Home of the Great Eastern Railway at:-

Once again it's "Kadee", "Kadee", "Kadee", "Kadee", "Kadee", "Kadee", "Kadee", "Kadee".

The most common spelling mistake on model railway groups is peoples' inability to spell K A D E E.

Followed by "Advice" and "Advise".

-- Cheers

Roger T. Home of the Great Eastern Railway at:-

"Roger T." wrote

But are you *sure*?

"Roger T." wrote

Typos happen. (So you'd prefer "Cymraeg"?)

Oh, come on. For *real* authenticity, you need to shrink your operating crew down to the appropriate scale and put *them* on the layout.

mark

They're just Americans....

mark, a US citizen who can read a map....

That's 'Eh?'.

mark "why, one of my best friends is a Canuck"*

• Ca-NOOK. Said friend corrected my pronunciation. Only a Canadian will correct the pronunciation of a national slur....

But it's true... their economy is more like the US's back then....

mark

Yes!

mark (my mother-in-law is one)

--- Snip, Snip

That's only a good solution if you have a federally funded layout.

Regards

You mean in the sense that Wolf is loigically equal to Kirchmeir? Equivalent in value but not in meaning.