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5 minutes ago, rka said:

These look really good, I'm build a rake of presflos but I'm unsure how to couple up the wagons as I'm not a fan of tension locks, how are you doing the couplings? 

 

Hi rka.  I used long shank Kadee couplers with the coupling box screwed to the coupling mounting point moulded in the Dapol chassis.

 

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The Dapol plastic is quite soft so I enlarged the mounting holes to suit the screw diameter.  If you don’t do this the plastic mounting will shear off when you tighten the screw - as I discovered the first time.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

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