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In lugnet.trains, Steven Barile writes:
> We (the PNLTC guys) have been thinking about this for a while. How to remotely
> uncouple cars. great challange.
Think out of the box. Upward motion is the wrong direction. GMLTC staffer John
Gerlach prototyped a working all LEGO device that pushes two cars apart almost
2 months ago.
The first working version is about the size of two RCX bricks stacked on top of
each other and sits completely below the track. It can be made smaller.
-Lar
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| (...) remotely (...) of (...) I saw a page somewhere (somebody post if you know) of a design that used the property that if you push in horizontally from the side on the magnets, they decouple. I built a version of this and it worked very well. This (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| We (the PNLTC guys) have been thinking about this for a while. How to remotely uncouple cars. great challange. The magnets are so strong that it seems that any upward motion would merely derail the cars (leaving them coupled but laying on their (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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