I emailed Frank some pics of a Bowser C630 with the type F fitted. I don't know if he got them. I'll post them here for the group as well, who knows they might help someone else. I've cropped them

Frank, I've been asking for a longer shank Type F coupler now for a while. This would be in the compatible shank range and the equivalent of the Kadee #156, which is ~.100" long shank. This is for a

Frank and Group, I have fitted Sergent couplers to two Bowser Centuries(1-C630 and 2- C636). While none had plows on them I keep running into the problem of the coupler top plate hitting the top of

I don't really want to speak for Frank but no it would not be difficult, it's basically a drawing adjustment, not something serious like a tooling adjustment or a whole new tool. What it would really

For that matter having F couplers in a few different lengths would be really cool. Is it hard to do couplers that are custom in terms of different shank lengths? This is my favorite part of my hobby

Hi Frank, Hard to say exactly as I don't have the proper plows that they'll need yet but with the stock standard plows the models come with I think +0.100" would be about right. There is enough meat

Hey Tim, How much longer would the shank need to be for your application? Frank

Just wondering what folks usually do in the situation of installing Sergents (type F) on diesels with plows on them. Everything I've ever installed onto before hasn't had plows and has only had type

That's really good news to hear Mike. I would never have thought of the fumes from wood to cause problems like that. Tim

Hello, all, Some of you (Frank in particular) will remember last year when I had all the trouble with the Sergent Couplers becoming corroded. Frank helped me out, considerably, and I rebuild all 200

Cool! That works, we should file that to the collective deep memort. Nathan Rich

Well it seems I have come up with a solution to myproblem with the Sergent coupler height on the Intermountain 19,600 gallon cornsyrup tank cars. Seeing as the coupler was sitting to high and the

I don't think the Athearn model is badly tooled, they just don't expect any of us to expect such tight tolerances as is nee ded when we use Sergent couplers. Nathan Rich

I've found that cleaning the shank, top and bottom, with a mill file usually does the trick, until you get to to Walthers cars, then you need to file the inside of the coupler box lids. Another choice

I used the SE coupler, not a kit, when Frank was still selling assembled couplers & the coupler swing was fine. My worst problem so far in height is with the 5161 cvd hoppers. I had to file the

Try smoothing the upper and lower parts of the shank with a bastard file. That should free it up a bit Take the same file to the top of the bolster on the truck one pass at a time to lower the

Has anyone tried installing the SEC87K compatible shank double shelf coupler on the Intermountain 19,600 gallon corn syrup tank cars? On the cars I have the long coupler box is held on by two screws.

Good deal! Remember, there are a bunch of assembly tips in the message archives. One of my favorites is using poster putty (aka blue tack) on the end of a stick to place the ball into the

Mike, Yes! Got that on the order form also. Thanks. Cheers, Bill Keene Irvine, CA

Dale did. The jig is extremely useful. You can see Sergent couplers on the Mohegan Pequot layout at the NTS this weekend (my equipment is equipped with them). Andrew Porter