[modeleng] Re: Couplings Now O/T

  • From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:34:49 -0800 (PST)

Peter, is this the museum where they have the huge
pumping engines on working display??

Al Messer

--- "Peter J. Cathcart" <peter.cathcart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Alan
> 
> I will borrow one of the pins tomorrow.  We are
> running our outside track at 
> Kew Bridge Steam Museum http://www.kbsm.org/ this
> weekend (a superb museum 
> by the way).  I will be there in the morning.  I
> will take a pic as well and 
> email it to you.  I would love to find a source for
> more.  No one seems to 
> know where we got them from.
> 
> We do check the bracket as well as it was actually
> the bracket that caused 
> so much hilarity so many years ago.
> 
> Peter
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "alanjstepney"
> <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 8:03 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Couplings
> 
> 
> Peter, what size are the bars and the holes / pins
> you use?
> Both seem to vary widely between clubs.
> 
> As for accidents. I was visiting one club once when
> the coupling parted and
> the loco took off like a scalded cat.
> It managed to stay on the track until it collided
> with another train.
> Upon checking, it wasn't the coupling that had
> parted, but the bolts holding
> the bracket to which the coupling was secured. Said
> bracket was only held on
> by two 4BA brass bolts.
> 
> Luckily damage was minimal, and no one was hurt.
> alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> www.alanstepney.info
> Model Engineering, Steam Engine, and Railway
> technical pages.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Peter J. Cathcart"
> <peter.cathcart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 6:46 PM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Couplings
> 
> 
> Alan
> 
> We use bars, as probably most clubs do.  As for
> pins, we have a set of pins
> with a spring semi-circle which is quite vicious if
> you're not careful.  It
> means, however, that once the pin is in it simply
> can't bounce out.  This is
> critical.  All locos are meant to be checked by the
> loco super for the day
> to make sure the couplings are totally secure.
> 
> We have a video taken probably 20 years ago, by pure
> fluke, of a loco on the
> track with the loco parting from its driving
> carriage.  We play it
> occasionally on club nights and it brings tears to
> the eyes!  On the more
> serious side it made us realise what can happen and
> that is why we sorted
> suitable pins.
> 
> Hilarity is the mother of invention.
> 
> Peter
> 
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