See attachment for some HO scale samples of cushion draft gear from Details West. Would something like these be of interest to any S scalers?
----- Original Message ----- From: ctxmf74 To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 06:21 PM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Cold or Understandable...?? --- In [email protected], "John Degnan" <Scaler164@...> wrote: > A longer box is no design challenge... just lengthen the front of >the gear box and add a second 'post' for the coupler's shank inside >the gear box ahead of the normal post. Simple. > Actually it's even simpler than that. Des Planes provides extended draft gear with their Evans boxcars and they just lengthen the coupler body on the rear to get the extension. I don't think they offer them as a separate coupler product though? If Kadee came up with a similar box made of metal and stocked it as an 802 extended version it would be handy.....DaveBranum
