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Reply to "'Fixing' the pilot on a recent Lionel F-unit?"

Thanks for all the tips and for sharing your hard work!  I'm not too worried about the gap between units, and I don't intend to convert the rear coupler, (or the rest of my 3R equipment) to body-mounted Kadees.  Not sure how well that would work on O42 anyway.

My concerns are overall height, excess clearance between the pilot and the railhead, and especially the "dislocated jaw" front-end appearance that comes with using a truck-mounted pilot on sharp curves.  I'm not going to switch with the front end of an A-unit.  If I run two of them back to back in an A-A configuration (unlikely), the unmolested unit will be coupled to the train.

I really wish Lionel would put a scale pilot in the box.  I'm tired of seeing dislocated jaws and gaping maws!

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