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Installing your scale couplers (not included)
Maintaining and servicing your locomotive
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ou may choose to replace your locomotive’s ElectroCouplers with scale couplers (available for
sale online and at hobby stores). Follow these instructions and refer to Figure 6 below and Figure
7 on page 31 to remove your locomotive’s ElectroCouplers and install the scale couplers.
1. Rotate the truck to the right allowing access to the ElectroCoupler connector.
2. Carefully remove the ElectroCoupler connector from the socket on the underside of the frame.
3. To remove the ElectroCoupler, remove the ElectroCoupler mounting screw from the pilot.
4. As shown in figure 7 on page 31, attach the scale coupler to the mounting bracket using the two
scale coupler screws, and then attach the mounting bracket to the pilot using the two scale
coupler mounting bracket screws.
5. Repeat for the other truck, if desired.
ElectroCoupler
mounting screw
Rotate the truck
to the right
ElectroCoupler
connector
Figure 6. Screw locations and pilot removal