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Reply to "The gap between engine and tender on Lionel's J3A Hudson"

When drawbars were just little pieces of steel or brass with a hole or such at each end, and tethers were wires and plugs not married to, or even dating, the drawbar, all you had to do to get better-looking gapage was to drill another hole or two, or make a new drawbar from steel/brass stock (easily available) with hand tools, swap them out, and, badda-bing, badda-boom: all was improved. 15 minutes, in most cases.

I really dislike "wireless" and circuit-board tethers. Really. It makes the ugly gap permanent (for most), or a pain to correct (for some) - and gives us something else needlessly complex to break. The world just keeps getting more and more inconvenient and less malleable.

These over-wrought tethers are not good ideas.

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