Kato N Scale Coupler Centering Spring Question

Brad, You probably would get more responses to your inquiry on "trainboard.com". There seems to be a large group of of N scalers over there.

Good Luck,

Steve

I use to play around with the "N" and Mirco-Trains Couplers (made by Kadee but branded Micro-Trains).

The Spring brings the coupler back to Center after a Magnetic Uncoupler Strip pulls it off center to allow un-coupling.

Mostly a reliability thing.

Thanks Yendor, thats what I was thinking. The spring was jammed to one side so it was making it uncouple periodically. It has worked great since I removed it. I would replace it but not worth paying shipping for a bag of springs that cost a buck.

I am mainly an O gauge guy but picked up a Kato N scale set to put inside of my O gauge track for something else to play with (I didn't go with HO scale because it would not fit with larger curves). I was blown away by the quality in some of these N scale trains, track etc. Just a fun, quality, cheaper option that you can run anything on.

Anything I want in O gauge but will not run on my o31 curves than I get in N scale to run inside my O layout. I just picked up a Union Pacific 7 car excursion set along with water tenders and a FEF steam locomotive. I could not have anything like that in O gauge due to tight curves. I love how the Kato items are in cases and nice foam book cases. Plus it takes up less room so I can hoard more trains 😄.

I run DC only on N scale and use my O gauge trains on the outside loop for sound. Not proto typical by any means but fun to see running.

Anyway I'm off topic but will keep a closer eye on the HONGZ posts.

Brad