Quote from: hobo1 on March 08, 2009, 11:58:46 AM
cf, I have bachmann amfleets and con cor amfleets the bachmanns are a little nicer car. I use a material handling car with my amfleets. the concors have microtrains couplers. tc is right microtrains is probably working on making couplers for the amfleets , they should because they are a popular and good passenger car

That would be great if they made a specific conversion!  I would be more willing to take that route and not worry so much about the cost if they were specific designed for the Amfleet cars.  What I would hate (as I said above) is to buy a body mount solution and for it to not work great... thats a lot of money for something that doesn't work well!

Chris

Quote from: TCWORLD on March 07, 2009, 10:23:07 AM

Quote from: Conrail Quality on March 06, 2009, 11:33:37 PM
Micro-trains has no conversion for the Amfleets.

Timothy

Although they dont say that they have a conversion, the chance are that there will be one that they make which will work.
They dont have a conversion for the H16-44, but a pair of #2004's work like a charm (you have to tap a hole of course, but you can get drill&tap set from them), and i have a feeling that the pilots from the #1046 will work without adaption, though i havent tried it.
You need to look here: http://www.micro-trains.com/Coupler%20diagrams.pdf and see if any of them would fit the amtrack cars. I havent seen how teh amtrack coupler pockets are shaped so i couldnt tell you which.

TCWorld,

There are no pockets, it is an arm the goes around the boogie and follows contours along the bottom of the frame to the end of the car.  It is extremely unique to the Bachman Amfleet cars.  I don't think I would have much luck body mounting couplers for every single car and be able to run all 12 of my cars at the same time without decoupling and maybe even derailing.  Plus, that is a very costly conversion for a car (x12) that already is pretty expensive.    I'm really hoping that Bachman will get back to us on this with how to get a hold of the factory built knuckle couplers (-:
v/r
Chris

Bachman,

Sorry to ask again, but is there a way to order the knuckle couplers for units we bought with rapido couplers?  Thanks,

Chris

Quote from: taz-of-boyds on February 21, 2009, 06:40:57 PM
Some of these might help, but no photo, maybe the Bach Man can add some info:

http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/products.php?act=viewProd&productId=1674
http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/products.php?act=viewProd&productId=1675
http://www.bachmanntrains.com/home-usa/products.php?act=viewProd&productId=1676

Bach Man,

Can you help us out?  Thanks!

Chris

I would like to see the AEM 7! 

Bachman,

Do you sell the couplers seperatly so we can convert our older cars?  I have about 12, so I'd rather not have to rebuy the whole car again just to get the couplers.  Thanks!

Chris

I heard a rumor that Bachman was going to start putting knuckle style couplers on the Amfleet cars.  Is there an truth to this?  PLEASE SAY YES!  And if so, will you sell conversion kits for those of us who already have units with the rapido couplers?  Thanks!

Chris

Bach Man,

I would also like to insert here that there would be a lot of people interested in Amfleet IIs and knuckle couple conversions for the Amfleet Is. 

On the later, there is a lot of conversation across the web and hobby about what great cars these are, but its difficult to put couplers on them that most serious people in the hobby use.  Thanks for listening!

Chris

Has anyone attempted to replace the rapido couplers on the newer Amfleet units with microtrains couplers, or something compatible?  Thanks,

Chris