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Experiences with the 'Profi' couplings made by Fleischmann (art.no. 6515)
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Do you want to see your little PREISER figures falling down on the tracks when they are trying to change from one carriage to the next one? We don’t. So we decided to remove the PIKO standard couplings
and replace them by ‘Profi’ couplings made by Fleischmann.
This should not be a problem thanks to the standardised coupling slots most model railway manufacturers build in their locos, carriages and wagons. On the internet you’ll have to pay between EUR 0.55 and
3.00 for two couplings which is not too much if you think of the common rolling stock prices.
Although the carriages will be connected very close together their buffers will not touch even in sharp bents (which are not realistic but often inevitable on model railway layouts…). An intelligent
mechanism pushes the vehicles apart whenever necessary!
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To remove the standard couplings we pressed the little barbed bars carefully together with a strong tweezers until they could be pulled out. Mounting the ‘Profi’ couplings was even easier: We just had to
push them slowly into the slot until they snapped in place.
And here is the amazing result:
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A few railway modellers reported that their locos sometimes lost one or more carriages equipped with the ‘Profi’ couplings but that’s not our experience; we had no such problems at all. We only got the
impression that connecting vehicles is not as smooth as with the standard couplings. Disconnecting is quite easy by lifting one of the coupling pins e.g. with a screwdriver. Or just raise the carriage
vertically from the tracks (that is not possible with standard couplings!).
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We can recommend the ‘Profi’ couplings by Fleischmann which will give your trains a much more realistic look. Time and effort is not worth mentioning.
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