I know that we don't need to use these?
I watched a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o5G5QrGKtM (Chadwick) where he is using them in 00 to swap between standard couplings and short lengths of chain.
I like the idea of that but it means modifying my rolling stock so wanted to check for horror stories before starting.
Stephen
Depending on the prototype, link and pin couplings might be more appropriate for NG. I think the instructions for Dundas Vee skips kits even suggests them, using dressmaking pins and a single link cut from fine chain. Perhaps it was 3 links, with the end ones glued to the pins. They may have suggested it in their pack of 5 skips and keeping the 5 in a permanent rake.
I also have some 009/HOe brass wagons from Yoshiya Kobayashi with optional pin and bar links that you pretty much have to time inserting the pins in between heart beats to steady your hand. I think I managed it once or twice before deciding that while it looks superb it was not for me.
Quote from: GraemeD on February 28, 2020, 20:57
I think the instructions for Dundas Vee skips kits even suggests them, using dressmaking pins and a single link cut from fine chain. Perhaps it was 3 links, with the end ones glued to the pins. They may have suggested it in their pack of 5 skips and keeping the 5 in a permanent rake.
Indeed they do and even give you the chain.
Stephen
Ah! I'd forgotten that. I wonder where it ended up?
If you are thinking of NEM pockets, the couplings in the video fit the larger H0/OO size pocket, a single one is possibly about a long as a small 009 wagon, a skip anyway.
I do have a mental image of a semi-permanent bar-like coupling with two sets of pips for fitting the smaller NEM pocket, so they may exist. Thinks... It might have been the Dapol stand at an exhibition several years back:
https://www.trovestar.com/generic/blog.php?Article=307 (https://www.trovestar.com/generic/blog.php?Article=307)
(My thread on NEM pockets in the other place came about though playing with a conversion to a Chuggington Dunbar loco as a bit of fun to get my hand and eye in after a long break from actual modelling. Being such a crude diecast model I thought it might be interesting to try adding a pair of pockets. The consequences of fouling it up are not expensive and are probably retrievable. However as all my stock is small they are not an option generally. )