Weaver couplers

Glue, zipties or rubber bands.

I find their couplers to be very hit or miss. Sometimes the knuckle is so tight that they wont couple to anything, and sometimes they're so weak they dont stay shut at all. Every once in a while, you get one thats just right.

I have a New York Central RPO by Weaver and I had to rubber band both couplers shut after they kept opening.

~Jeffrey

Hmm... must be a problem with that whole run, because I had to do that to mine too.

some issues but since I like to run long trains I use small black ruberbands

The ties off of bread bags or thin wire works fine.

I use small wire cable ties.  They're permanent, but you can snip them off.  Never have yet.

Alan

This.   

I had a source for small black rubberbands but I can't remember where it was.

Have half a dozen B60 baggage cars, two of which had a problematic couplers.

Used the rubber band fix.

Have a dozen of the new TOFC, have had no problems with these couplers.

Maybe weaver found the solution.

Most anyplace that sells hair care products will have packs of little rubber bands intended for hair braiding. Double one of these up around the coupler shank, and adjust its distance from the coupler head to allow for operation (but only when you want them to open)

---PCJ 

I pulled the thumbtacks off my passenger cars. I don't expect to switch them. The armature is wimpy and the added weight of the thumbtack will open the coupler if the car runs over a rough spot. Looks better without it or with a rubber band. YMMV

Pete

I've whined about it more than once, but the old Weaver plastic couplers and the

current die-cast ones are both problematic, but for different reasons. The problem

with the plastic ones was not the plastic (the plastic trucks were fine, and Lionel

has produced a very decent plastic coupler in recent years), it was the "spring"

(brief lifespan) and the improper movement range of the knuckle (wouldn't couple,

wouldn't uncouple).

The current DC couplers' thumbtack hangs down way too far; shorts out on some cars.

(No, it's not my track work; everybody else's work fine.)

This actually affects my Weaver purchases - I stick with MTH (best) or Lionel typically;

Atlas? Often too delicate.

But, Weaver has great locos, great brass, great service - good people.

Couplers can be maddening.