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Subject: 
Auotmated decouplers (Was: Who's the April fool now?)
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Date: 
Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:46:56 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:

   The uncoupler worked very well, it is based on similar ‘withdraw the magnet behind the buffers’ principles as Jon Reynolds’ shunter from about a year or so ago...

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 disguised it can be made.

   without wishing to steal Jason’s thunder I will say that the crane looks like it will be amazing once the necessary tweaking is finished.



I’m getting more and more curious - pictures, please? Detalied descriptions?

-- Brian Davis



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  Re: Auotmated decouplers (Was: Who's the April fool now?)
 
(...) 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)
  Re: Auotmated decouplers (Was: Who's the April fool now?)
 
(...) 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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  Re: Who's the April fool now?
 
(...) 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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