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All right Pete, let's see you design an N-scale coupler that works perfectly in one try.
They are still enormous. Anyone know if you can swap out the couplers with Accumates? I know MTL won't work but Accumates do not use the centering spring that has been the problem in the past.
If the box accepts MT 1015s, then Accumates will work. The problem going the other way is the centering nubs on the MT shanks. If the box doesn't have the slots for them, the 1015 won't work right.
The C39-8 is the same as the turbine, the boxes accept MTL. I posted about that in another thread, probably the C39-8 thread.
Pete, yeah I'm just busting your cookies, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. Hmm, cookies.
In all seriousness, how do you know Scale Trains' first coupler on the turbines wasn't even their first try, but just the best they could do before reaching their deadline to release that model and start making money? And what reason do you have to believe that model train designers, however well seasoned, would exceed the performance of all previous model train designers?
To wit, name an N-scale coupler that didn't/doesn't need improvement over its first iteration. MTL revised theirs with the RDA.
Accumates are still terrible when truck mounted but at least Atlas is body-mounting many of them now. McHenrys seemed to have improved in quality control lately although I'm not sure what they did to fix them and I generally still don't consider them reliable.
Kato has nine versions (maybe I exaggerate slightly) none of which are designed to mate with any non-Kato. As you know, Kato has made zero effort to make their couplers compatible with anyone else's, which is to say they've made slightly less effort than everyone else.
I mean, to be clear, I am amazed and impressed that the new Scale Trains coupler on the Dash-9s mates well with KATO couplers in the video. So yeah, kudos to Scale Trains. It's still not the scale size coupler I'd want to see, but they actually are improving their coupler compatibility beyond what anyone has done before, and maybe that just takes a few tries.