The feeling of success
Sometime after midnight, Tuesday morning, November 27th,
a successful coupler test was performed. This phase of the project started with
a paper mock-up of a coupler pair about 1/20th scale in size. I closely studied
an animation and a diagram of the Janney coupler. I did this hoping to make a
prototypical looking Omega Scale coupler. Next I made a simpler flat cardstock mock-up of the same. I began to realize that as I reduced the size of the
coupler, the mechanism was going to be difficult to impossible to replicate.
When I made a test coupler as near as possible to scale size, my fears indeed
came to fruition. There was nothing to do but scramble back to the drawing
board. So back to the drawing board I went. Nothing new here. Done it many
times. Fortunately, little time was needed to get it right. So now we have the
much sought after coupler design. There will be adjustments. That goes with the
territory as well. It's all good, omscaler
