Skip Coupling Adaptor

[ianfolland]

In the files section of the FR Yahoo group there's a photograph of coupling adaptors that the FR use. I thought I'd knock one up for my skips so that they can be coupled directly to Accucraft choppers.

So, the mk 1 version looks like this, made from some scrap from an etched brass kit:




It slips over the end of a Binnie skip:





And can be coupled to a normal chopper, even those attached to bogie vehicles without derailing the skip:







The last picture shows a skip coupled to a Slaters Hudson bogie which has a modified Accucraft chopper fitted:




When I have a spare five minutes I'll make another for the other end of my raft of skips, but fitted with a chopper (my line is end to end and vehicle couplings only have a chopper at one end).

[Pendo Pilot]

Very nice indeed (& lovely pics). Really neat idea, I may have to try the same however with higher dumb buffer.

[MoelygestLR]

Again, Love the idea, have been thinking about something like that myself for a while but to fit to centre buffer stock.

[mhlr]

Fantastic, very neat! I'll also have to have a go at some point as mine always detail with larger locos or larger stock.