Tim O'Connor wrote:

It would be lovely to have a standard draft gear box and coupler shank design to fit it, such that every coupler would sit properly in the box and not droop! But even as practical as that would be for virtually ALL modelers, what are the chances of getting such a standard accepted?

If you don't write that standard, the chances are zero.

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