Hi Mike,

Seems like no takers to your question so far. I'm no expert with Marklin or 3D printing but I've taken a look at some of the images I could find of the 47447 and I'm not really sure what you want/need to do.

Is it really necessary to print a whole new support? From what you say there is a socket in the standard support the receives a pin on the container underside - but you want to use containers that have sockets instead of pins.

ASSUMING the sockets on the new containers you want to use align with the sockets on the sockets on the existing support, don't you just need some form of double-ended pin (matchstick, toothpick, brass rod, knitting needle)?

My apologies if I've got it all wrong, am off with the fairies or missed something entirely obvious to the Marklin gurus.

Mark

I have a number of 084192 which I use with the longer Sgns/Sgnss (4705X) type cars. They can be used with 20 foot, 23 foot tank containers and I have used them doubled with 40 foot tank containers. They cannot be used with 40 or 45 foot containers due to lack of sockets on the container underside.

I was thinking that alternate mounts instead of the sockets provided with the T1 models might allow containers from other brands to be used with those cars. I have a number of Herpa, Kombimodell, LSM and Roco containers that would look good as loads on my Maerklin cars. As container trains are very frequently run as unit trains, you want to be able to run a "Samskip", a "Ferrymasters" or similar train and have all cars with loads from the same or related companies.

Regards

Mike C