On his layout he's fitting all his stock with the new coupling PECO has developed for its L&B coaches and wagons which are designed to locate in a NEM pocket.
The task for me was to work out how to fit them to my resin wagons / brass bogies and get them set at the correct height.
My bogie design has a brass tongue which extends from the stretcher and, on our rolling stock, this is where we solder on the long shaft of the brass, fold-up Greenwich couplings which we are now fitting as standard on Bron Hebog.
It works well too with the old Bemo couplings which have a long plastic shaft which can be glued on.
The PECO ones, however, have a very short shaft because they're designed to clip into the pockets and a test run gluing one of them onto the end of the brass tongue on my bogies showed it was a whisker too short and there wasn't quite enough clearance for the coupling loop to rise as high as I'd like.
So what I've decided to do is solder a small extension onto the tongue using some offcuts from old brass frets - yet again proving the value of being canny about what you throw away.
My customer also sent me a PECO RTR wagon to enable me to set the coupling heights properly.
As lucky would have it the brass tongue is in almost exactly the right position and can be easily bent up or down a bit as required.
And here is is with one of the B wagons sitting on its bogies.
There's nothing like the satisfaction of a successful adaptation.
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