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I normally model German railways in N (and a bit of British). But at some point I could not resist the charme of an Atlas Shay. That's where the problem started: All my locos and coaches etc. so far had rapido couplers but the Shay (and a few wagons I bought to match) have mictrotrains couplers. As I use non-magnetic uncouplers (those that push a pin up), I cannot uncouple the wagons, obviously. As I do not want to put down additional magnets on top of the track (the tracks are already fixed and ballasted), I thought to convert the Microtrains to rapido couplers. While there is a lot of infos out the other way around, has anyone an idea how to do this type of conversion?
Thanks a lot
Andreas
I normally model German railways in N (and a bit of British). But at some point I could not resist the charme of an Atlas Shay. That's where the problem started: All my locos and coaches etc. so far had rapido couplers but the Shay (and a few wagons I bought to match) have mictrotrains couplers. As I use non-magnetic uncouplers (those that push a pin up), I cannot uncouple the wagons, obviously. As I do not want to put down additional magnets on top of the track (the tracks are already fixed and ballasted), I thought to convert the Microtrains to rapido couplers. While there is a lot of infos out the other way around, has anyone an idea how to do this type of conversion?
Thanks a lot
Andreas