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Re: Auotmated decouplers (Was: Who's the April fool now?)
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 3 Apr 2006 21:12:35 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Brian Davis wrote:
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
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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...
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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 disguised it can be made.
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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.
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I’m getting more and more curious - pictures, please? Detalied descriptions?
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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 the centre of the wagon. Jason, can you provide a better
description/pics?
Jon’s has as similar priciple, but the magnet is mounted on an arm that swings
into the body of the loco. Unfortunatly I can only find
one pic of the loco online and that doesn’t show the mechanism, although you
can see the technic motor. I will ask Jon to put some pics online again.
Tim
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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