Please excuse the two posts at once - I'm not building anything yet so the research is being done by the shed load and I keep coming up against things I can't find a good answer for.
I'm very keen to have fully automatic coupling and uncoupling on my new layout - and keep coming across the Micro-trains couplers. They seem to be what I'm after, but having found a supplier (MG Sharp) I'm extremely confused as to which couplers I'll actually need.
95% of my stock is Farish, I also have a few dapol models as well. Everything at the moment has the standard rapido couplers and these just don't fit what I'm after. To my eye, it seems that I'll need a combination of 1015 and 1128 to convert my Farish stock, am I barking completely up the wrong tree?
MG Sharp
Can Micro-train couplers be operated by electromagnets that can be deactivated, or do they have to be operated by their own magnets? I don't like the idea of everything uncoupling when I forget a magnet is there!
I think a couple of cheap wagons, coaches and maybe a loco may have to be purchased to experiment on - I've never converted couplings before so any advice is very welcome!
I'm very keen to have fully automatic coupling and uncoupling on my new layout - and keep coming across the Micro-trains couplers. They seem to be what I'm after, but having found a supplier (MG Sharp) I'm extremely confused as to which couplers I'll actually need.
95% of my stock is Farish, I also have a few dapol models as well. Everything at the moment has the standard rapido couplers and these just don't fit what I'm after. To my eye, it seems that I'll need a combination of 1015 and 1128 to convert my Farish stock, am I barking completely up the wrong tree?
MG Sharp
Can Micro-train couplers be operated by electromagnets that can be deactivated, or do they have to be operated by their own magnets? I don't like the idea of everything uncoupling when I forget a magnet is there!
I think a couple of cheap wagons, coaches and maybe a loco may have to be purchased to experiment on - I've never converted couplings before so any advice is very welcome!