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Reply to "All those PFE Reefers - with a HOW TO video"

Originally Posted by clem k:

Ive been doing a bunch of conversions also, fortunately mostly Weaver rolling stock. Sure could use pads for Atlas cars. I think each type of Atlas car is different.

 

Clem k

 

What kills me about Atlas cars are that the screw holes are for "Atlas Couplers" not Kadee couplers.   They are all in the wrong spot.   To do them properly I have to drill and tap new holes.   Wish Atlas would figure out that no one wants their couplers!   Or at least they need to accept that KD is already the accepted standard and having a pad that is off by a few cm is more annoying then helpful :-P

 

MTH - nice they have a Kadee correct pad.   Not so nice that the trucks are screwed in from the top instead of the bottom (like Atlas) so you are forced to disassemble the entire car just to get the toy couplers off the trucks.

 

Weaver - pretty spot on.  Nice job.

 

GDD/3rd rail - very spot on.  Kudos to them

 

New Lionel - KD pad is correct.   Couplers are a royal PIA to get off the trucks... not so nice.

 

I go through Dremel cutting discs like crazy cutting off toy couplers.  I've several boxes of never been used toy couplers and electro couplers from all manufactures.  They are in an unsorted heap in a box.   :-)

 

 

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