Help Identifying These Couplers Please

No answer, I'm afraid - but I hope you find out and share.

I wound up with 2 similar couplers some years back, and I do not recall from where. Mine are die-cast, as I recall. Doesn't matter - these are supremely handy couplers for just the kind of project you did (I used mine on an old Rivarossi dummy FM diesel) - putting tidy 3RO couplers where they were never intended to be, yet not getting involved with the trucks or pivots.

Someone needs to offer them in 6-packs. I'll take a handful. 

@rattler21 posted:

Does anyone in the Forum have an early Williams passenger car?  That is one possibility.  John

Sorry, it does not resemble an early Williams coupler.

I've never seen that configuration, so I don't know where they came from.  Pretty cool design, hopefully they're still around.

Thanks guys for the replies......let's keep our fingers crossed and hope someone recognizes them.

The comments Gunrunner made on a similar current thread about 3D printing them is worth some serious thought. I know a guy who 3D printed some side frames for me last year (ZINC PEST!!!) so I will give him a call and see if he can do it.

Watch this space!!!

Peter.....Buco Australia

This is the closest I could find with a similar mounting bracket. It's from Thomas the Tank engine.

Yours must be from a similar short engine of some type. I'd guess it was from a low-end, short starter set engine since it's non-operating and has limited swing.

Jim

Update:

I finally remembered where I got the 4 dummy couplers pictured in my original post. I received them when I ordered 2 sets of MTH solid freight car wheels and axles from my Buco spare parts store (Amiba Lokschuppen) in Switzerland.

Erich, the store owner sells European MTH O Gauge trains and parts (in limited numbers), and he had a set of wheels and axles I was after to change the spoke wheels on one of my Dastard bogie axle petrol tanker wagons. The couplers came with the wheel sets. Looks like he is out of the solid MTH wheels, but still has spoke wheels for sale, and these also come with the dummy couplers. I have attached a link to the item in his web shop.

https://www.amiba-shop.ch/mode...radsatz/kupplung-set   

The listing may appear to you guys in German, however my laptop automatically does the translation into English for me. I have since tried to search for these couplers on the MTH parts site, but they don't come up....maybe because they were only available on the European loco's and cars sold over there.

I'm not about to order more wheel sets just to get these couplers, as I don't need anymore wheels, and besides, the international postage costs are getting ridiculous.

I have been in contact with my 3D printing guy here, and he thinks he can make them, but I'm not sure about the cost at this stage. They will have to come in at under $10.00 each to be worthwhile, and then there's the cost of the fine "hair spring" to keep them centered, and if I can find this particular type of "hair spring".

Notwithstanding, I can get brand new Kadee couplers here in Australia for around $10.00 each, complete with the gear/mounting box, so why would I bother spending more to get couplers 3D printed, and then have to source the special centering springs???

Next Action........keep watching this space.

Peter......Buco Australia.