QUOTE (Sol @ 24 Jun 2007, 03:59)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Columbo, your comment
"I have fitted a pair of Kadee no. 58 "scale" couplers to an 00 Lima Syphon. These are N gauge couplers in a No.5 draft box."
Kadee do not make N scale couplers , that is Micro-trains which was a part of the Kadee group until the split up.
The No 58's are in fact "scale" HO couplers.
Ron
You are quite right. I bought my no.58s quite a while ago, perhaps before the split. When in fact did Micro-trains split off?
I see from Kadees web site that the No.58 uses type 'E' couplers. Are these not the same design as their old N gauge couplers, or perhaps these are for HOn3 stock?
It would be interesting to find a type E coupler with a longer shank, which is what Alastair is looking for.
Colombo