http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/ O Scale Two Footers Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:17:10 GMT Brian Millar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1166 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1166 David, I'm referring to the cane trains I drive, hauling 250x4 wheeled 4t. bins, average bin weight is approx. 5.5t., each bins is about 9'6" over buffers, and Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:11:44 GMT David Woodcock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1165 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1165 Brian Millar wrote: <The reason the face of buffers are flat or at least some of the surface flat is to keep the couplings aligned to one and other, when Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:07:25 GMT daniel caso http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1164 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1164 George:             Great! Thank you!!!  Very good pictures. The chopper couplings in your photos looks much smaller than the ones from the Hudson Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:36:49 GMT drcassiar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1163 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1163 Hi All Just added a few more n.g coupling types to Daniel's photo album. The first 2, ÖSlJ 1 & 2 show a central buffer coupling with a kind of instanser 3 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:35:50 GMT Brian Millar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1162 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1162 John, The reason the face of buffers are flat or at least some of the surface flat is to keep the couplings aligned to one and other, when handling large rakes Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:29:49 GMT Daniel Osvaldo Caso http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1161 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1161 Hello: Under the name "Couplings" I've just uploaded 6 files showing three different couplings in the Netherlands for narrow gauge material. Daniel Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:42:32 GMT David Woodcock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1160 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1160 Further to my previous posts on this subject, I have now looked through Bill Davies' "The Vicinal Story" about the Belgian SNCV/NMBS secondary (and largely Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:15:17 GMT David Hughes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1159 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1159 John, Re "Apart from being a fascinating insight into the L&B at just over 5 mins in it shows automatic chopper coupling." Strictly speaking it just shows the Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:44:38 GMT John Clutterbuck http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1158 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1158 Someone (cross) posted this link: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fjZgpqeMJA4 onto the exmoorNG group. Apart from being a fascinating insight into the L&B at Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:14:32 GMT Daniel Osvaldo Caso http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1157 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1157 Hi all: In the hoe that it will encourage the practice we started with the tipplers album, I've created a new one under the name "COUPLERS" and uploaded a few Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:10:10 GMT John Dennis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1156 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1156 David, Thanks for providing those drawings - very useful indeed. Your drawing shows the coupler to be straight across the face. I have uploaded to photo to my Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:21:45 GMT David Woodcock http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1155 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1155 Before I produced the AJ coupling plus centre-buffer drawings, I spent a long while looking at photographs of a wide range of prototypes. Broadly speaking, Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:57:57 GMT David Hughes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1154 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1154 I like your style! To: O-14@...: jclutterbuck2001@...: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:20:59 +0000Subject: [O-14] Re: Hand of God - was Alex Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:47:07 GMT Brian Millar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1153 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1153 David & All, The chopper couplings for which I posted a link for see:- <http://www.barcourt.com/sugarcane.htm> after a fair amount of testing, I can say for Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:22:30 GMT Frank Sharp http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1152 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/O-14/message/1152 John, David et al As I understand it, Alex Jackson couplings, like the real thing on standard gauge, PULL, they don't push, that's down to the buffers. That's