A.F. 21158 Front Coupler

Ty Port lines hobbie supply.  Doug Peck has lots of flyer parts. They are located in MA

I tried to find their contact information on Google to no avail.  Do you have any further information?  City, phone or e-mail, or web site.

 

Thanks,

 

Bum

Port Lines Hobby Supplies portlines.com

thank you very much Dandeo, I will get in touch with them today.

 

Bum

Port Line is a great source for AF parts. He will have what your looking for.

Thanks everyone, I just sent him a e-mail, I figure his phone will be busy today as he was closed yesterday.

 

Bum

Doug is on vacation until 8/16 however he did get back to me with the part number etc.  I'll be ordering them when he returns.

 

Thank you for your help.

 

Bum

That loco never came with a front coupler. It was a base model. 

 

You can install one, you'll need a valve gear screw, centering spring, and a coupler.

 

Gandy

 

PS: Doug is away for several weeks. 

Gandy, thank you.  As I noted in my original post I am not real familiar with AF.  Most of the photos that I saw of this have the coupler but in researching further this morning I see that a lot of the sites show it with no coupler.  Why would they have drilled the hole for it but not put one on?

 

Thanks,

 

Bum

Gilbert was the king of standardization in manufacturing. Why make several versions of the frame just to make small changes. They made one frame to fit all versions of this loco and just left off the parts on the lesser models.

 

BTW you'll need

 

1X 12A355A Leaf Spring

1X XA12A047Knuckle Coupler with Hole only.

1X PA13A791 Rivet or PA9288 Shouldered screw

 

You can rivet the coupler on by using the PA13A791 above or tap the hole and use the PA9288 shouldered screw.

 

Gandy