More coupler history.....
When the drawings arrived for the F3s, we saw a hugh problem. The
units with KD802 couplers were too far apart by several feet. In HO,
this problem is solved by using the KD 33 couplers that had a much
shorter coupler box. I called Larry Edwards of Kadee and begged them
to make this coupler in S scale. With the same coupler as the 802,
with a #5 style shank upgraded to be S size with the mounting holes
cored to the 802 spacing. Larry was not even a little interested. I
told him that we would order thousands of these for our series of F
units and ore cars. He said he had an S scale coupler and did not
need another. This is why we have a 01295 coupler.
Next, the problem with a 100% 1:64 coupler is once we did some
research, we did not think they would easily couple with the 802 and
the #5. For us, that was a poison pill, so we made the 01295's to
couple with the thousands of #5s and 802s on the market at that time.
Don
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