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Re: Automatic decoupler designs?
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:49:06 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera%ihatespam%.com
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GMLTC had a design for uncoupling, and there have been others posting
here speaking of this.
Not much hard info is available on the GMLTC design in terms of
pictures, but it uses horizontal prying, as you suggest.
The idea of a switch engine with an electromagnet is VERY cool. I assume
you would actually reverse the magnetic polarity rather than just
turning it off? (if you had a steel core, you'd stay coupled if it were
turned off... but with reversed polarity, done quickly, you might be
able to get the car to go shooting away fast enough to separate before
the car's magnet flipped over and the car recoupled itself)
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| (...) If I used a magnet as a core and fixed it so it couldn't rotate, then the electromagnet could be normally off (couples as usual, always forcing the other knuckle to flip over). When you wanted to decouple you'd produce the opposite field and (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| LEGO train knuckles don't lend themselves to decoupling. Has anyone got a good design (either as part of a switch engine or fixed to the track) design for an automated separator? I'm close to an in-engine (but very ugly) solution which can pry a (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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