| Message | As a kid, my first trains were Lionel, with operating knuckle couplers. Uncoupling ramps (electro-magnetic) were expensive. I only had two. So my dad made me a tool to reach under the coupler to pull down the lever that opened the 'hand', letting me uncouple anywhere I could reach. Later years, when I converted to HO the thing I missed most about the Lionel was the couplers. They were bulky and overscale, but they worked like the real thing. X2-F's at best, were horrible. I didn't discover KD's until many years latter. A big improvment, but I always wished someone would make an operating 'scale knuckle coupler' in HO. I had about decided it was beyond the realm of practicality, until . . . About a year ago I found your site, and ordered a 5 pack of EC87A-125's. These days I'm playing with On30 and Gn15 and I just got through installing your couplers on some of that equipment. I love these things. I had a friend over looking at my test track with the On30 gear on it and he said something about how good dummy couplers looked. I smiled, grabbed the magnet wand, turned on the power and showed him how they work. His jaw just dropped.
I'm looking forward to you getting your tooling set-up, 'cause I need some more!
Thanks for a high quality product at a fair price. |