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| | | (...) Tim Gould's photos ? The owner of the linked BS gallery (talltim) is our dear curator Tim David. Didier (19 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Who's the April fool now? —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | (...) Good point. I should have realised that Mr Gould wouldn't get that close to actual bits of plastic. I was obviously confused by his name being all over the front page at the moment. Jason R (19 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Who's the April fool now? —Tim David
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| | | | (...) LOL The uncoupler worked very well, it is based on similar 'withdraw the magnet behind the buffers' principles as (URL) Reynolds' shunter> from about a year or so ago but of course with more space to play with worked even better. Also, without (...) (19 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | Auotmated decouplers (Was: Who's the April fool now?) —Brian Davis
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| | | | (...) Curious. But the it looks like the images are no longer up - are there any images of the internal workings of Gronk or your own implementation? I'd not seen this before, and I'm really curious now... both how well it worked, and how well (...) (19 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Auotmated decouplers (Was: Who's the April fool now?) —Tim David
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| | | | | (...) First of all I should point out that neither of these are my MOCs Jason's uncoupler has the magnet mounted on a technic plate which also has a rack mounted on it. The technic motor (controlled by the custom IR reciever) draws the coupling into (...) (19 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Auotmated decouplers (Was: Who's the April fool now?) —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | (...) The receiver circuit fits inside a box shaped like this: (URL) Receiver>> Power is connected at one end, and the motor drive is taken from the other. You can see it in the rear section of the engine. The battery box is in the front, and (...) (19 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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