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DIY remote uncoupling installed

TurboSnail

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Finally got round to finishing the remote uncoupler installation, which finishes off the track work for now. It's nothing fancy or electronic, just a manual cam-based system made of ice cream sticks and offcuts of wood and metal. This shows how rubbish I am at baseboard planning, having hacked a hole in the supports to fit the system in. Fortunately it's not a wide baseboard, so still has plenty of strength.

 

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Lining the whole thing up was a bit of a nightmare, but it seems to work pretty consistently. I tried taking a video with my rubbish phone, but hopefully gives an idea of how it looks.

 

 

More info in this thread if you're interested: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/113032-remoteautomaticdiy-uncoupling-methods/

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Also simple and reliable I'm tempted to do something along those lines (sorry) as well

 

Lining it up is a bit of a faff, other than that it's quite easy. If you do give it a go, I'd recommend not using the cams I did, as having two different ones made it a bit awkward. The round one seems to work better as you can turn it both ways.

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