I would like to offer my thanks to Dennis Storzek for his post regarding his company's couplers. We all see lots of less than factual comments on various products including some of my own that appear here and elsewhere, so when ANY manufacturer shares detailed information about a product available we all benefit. It would be beneficial if we had the input of more manufacturers and it should be encouraged.
I use the Accurail close to scale couplers and I am delighted to have a better understanding of their construction and capabilities. They work pretty well with the many other couplers that I have installed over the years. I hope to standardize at some point. I uncouple manually and the Accurail couplers allow easy omission of the bottom "lever" or whatever you call it. What got me interested in them was the close to scale size of the coupler and pocket.
One previous comment made was regarding the durability of the resin Accurail couplers vs. metal. Although I've not had it happen I'm sure they WILL BREAK during rough handling on long trains. Isn't that supposed to happen? We are modeling the real railroads, right?
