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Re: Automatic decoupler designs?
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 6 Jan 2000 18:13:35 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Steven Barile writes:
> BTW we had a really nice guy visit a PNLTC display in Seattle that had a
> wonderful and very clean and simple solution to the decouplers. It used a
> rubber band limited rack driven by a motor. Ir pryed the couplers apart using
> a stubby tappered technic beam at the bumpers.
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> PS stubbier then this one http://www.auczilla.com/lego/xi/lot/?DLL01
Wow, sounds like the foot beams that come with the DDK. I'm not sure I'm
picturing this right, since if you inserted those slope-out I'd think you'd
derail one or both cars before they separated.
--Ben
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| I was working on a hump yard decoupler and was playing around with adding mags to the track using the 2x2 tile that has clips to hold the mag. What's really cool is how you can make a train car hop over the mag on the track. All this play was big (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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