Mike, I noticed that the later Lionel AF had redesigned the weights to be an upside down tee. This may lower the center of gravity of the weight and help to prevent uncoupling.
Lionel also used springs wrapped around the stem that holds the weight down. There is obviously a design flaw in the original AF because I read in CTT that when AF folks set up and ran displays, they couplers were always glued shut. I saw in the latest issue of CTT that Lionel has introduced a new milk box car with slides designed into the couplers instead of weights. Wonder if they are preparing for a massive switch over and dumping of the weight oriented system? Scott Dee Maybe trying putting in a spring would work. Has anyone in the group tried spring weight solution. -----Original Message----- From: traindoctor2003 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 8:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [S-Trains] Keeping knuckle couplers from uncoupling? This is a big problem for me, that is, keeping the train cars coupled to prevent train wrecks on the multi-loop layout I have. I tried using small "o" rings from the hardware store and slipping them over the knuckle weights to act as a 'damper'. But some of these cars still uncouple themselves. Anybody have any better ideas I could use to keep these knuckle couplers tight and connected..............short of 'crazy glue' that is! Thanks, Mikey. S-Trains list sponsor: http://www.americanflyertrains.com All the Flyer you desire...books and accessories too! To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ S-Trains list sponsor: http://www.americanflyertrains.com All the Flyer you desire...books and accessories too! To UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send a note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
