{"id":88,"date":"2009-01-11T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2009-01-11T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T18:50:07","slug":"mounting-dg-couplings-to-nem-sockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/archives\/88","title":{"rendered":"Mounting DG couplings to NEM sockets"},"content":{"rendered":"

So that I have something to use whilst I devise and construct my first 2mm layout I have completed the installation of DG autocouplers on a small amount of my stock to use on my small n gauge layout.\u00a0\u00a0 My German stock was converted in the normal way via the removal of the old coupling pocket and replacement with a DG coupler.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 All of the ride heights were set via a jig; simple blocks of plastic card to check the height of the mounting plate and after installation that of the buffing plate.<\/p>\n

However the locomotive I had in mind for the shunting duties would need to have the DG couplers installed in an NEM pocket which necessitated the modification\u00a0of the DG coupler to fit in the NEM socket.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The coupling needed to mount in the NEM pocket and not move within the pocket once installed.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The first step was to thin down the mounting plate at the couplings\u00a0tail so that it would fit in the pocket.\u00a0\u00a0 I then removed the lugs for the coupling loop.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A 0.85mm brass rod would provide the axle which would clip into the\u00a0clips in the\u00a0NEM socket and a short length of the same rod would be soldered along the tail of the coupling to prevent it from moving around in the socket.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0It was also provided with a 1mm offset to increase the height of the coupling in line with those heights found on my vehicles.\u00a0\u00a0 I did this in the same way you would produce a joggle in point work.\u00a0 The finished coupling ( a bit blurred ) can be seen below.<\/p>\n

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The coupling was then chemically blackened and installed.\u00a0\u00a0 Now to build my 2mm layout …..<\/p>\n

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So that I have something to use whilst I devise and construct my first 2mm layout I have completed the installation of DG autocouplers on a small amount of my stock to use on my small n gauge layout.\u00a0\u00a0 My German stock was converted in the normal way via the removal of the old coupling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wealdenareagroup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festiveroad.net\/wealden2mmblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}