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Re: Food Fight
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2009, 01:21:07 PM »
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Just to torture you some more, here's what an AZL coupler looks like in N scale...



Compare to the 905:



One problem, aside from not being available on their own: there's no hole in the AZL coupler pocket, as on M-Ts, so they'd have to be glued to the frame (or some other means of attachment devised).

Is that the new auto latch coupler or one of the original style?

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Re: Food Fight
« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2009, 01:34:10 PM »
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That looks great.

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Re: Food Fight
« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2009, 01:53:10 PM »
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Is that the new auto latch coupler or one of the original style?

That's the older style. But from what I can tell, the new ones aren't much different. The older ones could function, but they were very stiff. I think all they did was change how they were sprung.

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Re: Food Fight
« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2009, 02:19:09 PM »
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Is that the new auto latch coupler or one of the original style?

That's the older style. But from what I can tell, the new ones aren't much different. The older ones could function, but they were very stiff. I think all they did was change how they were sprung.

Ok, hopefully they worked on cleaning up the flash on them as well. 

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Re: Food Fight
« Reply #19 on: January 27, 2009, 03:49:07 PM »
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"One problem, aside from not being available on their own: there's no hole in the AZL coupler pocket"

AZL does make a body mounted coupler. The couplers on the Surfliners  and snowplows are body mounted.
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Re: Food Fight
« Reply #20 on: January 27, 2009, 04:10:12 PM »
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Just to torture you some more, here's what an AZL coupler looks like in N scale...


I like that  8) clean up the part lines and It'll be a half decent looking coupler...
I think I'm gonna email AZL...
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