Hi All, Ed L and I have had lively discussions in the past about this, particularly if I had 1 of his cars here to paint. Hold your ears Ed....
As on my website, I took a turn into HO in my teen years. (I say it was teenage rebellion against what - I don't know) I was in the only Explorer group (Oldest Boy Scouts) in the country whose theme was trains. Most others were squirming through dark muddy caves, hanging off cliffs or eating tree bark well before the food channel while the 7 of us were safely and cleanly playing with our trains. They thought WE were strange.... but that is where I discovered Kadee couplers and the beginnings of finer scale model railroading. We eventually became the unofficial adopted stepchildren of the adult model railroad club we were meeting at every week anyway when our Explorer leader Mike Sharkey moved back to Boston. Mike said it was to get away from me because I drove him nuts. I never believed him. What does all this waxing nostalgic have to do with couplers? Patience grasshopper.... We had a seminar given by the adults on proper Kadee coupler installation. Since the #5 was most common they were everywhere. Of course the #1 goal was to get the height correct, and that they would work with the delay uncoupling every time. In spite of the simplicity of the #5 I rarely got them to delay well. When I first saw that old S boxcar and learned about the 802 that all but did it for me. I left HO mostly because I hated the #5! So the 802 haters now have another reason to hate it. It brought ME into S Scale! The 802 is generally more forgiving in terms of running on modules step up for 2 days, which was most of my running in the early years. My first draft gears were designed to use the 802. Newer draft gears I am designing are going to be for the SHS coupler to get rid of the slack action. I have started to design 1 for a P70/B60. The delay uncoupling is now not as important to me. I have been cutting the pins off. Did that answer the question? Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com Winner of the 2007 Josh Seltzer NASG Website Award Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Custom Train Parts Design http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! http://www.prrths.com http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
