andygif

I got a pair last week, and finally got round to trying them out on sunday morning on a strip of code 80 flexi track. I used a 37 & 03 as the traction and a single seacow wagon as the load. i nipped the sleepers off altogether in the area were the magnet was to go, which was a mistake as it made postioning the magnet in the center of the track bed harder. Next time i'll cut themnext to the inside edge of the chairs. uncoupling was problematic, it got better when i added weight to the wagon in the form of my brass back to back gauge. I couldn't always get the wagon to propel without recoupling after a little ways, though this may be to down to the magnet possibly not being centrallised. Roll on the multipacks (larger packs would be good idea, though i guess i will need more T-shank ones than NEMs in the long run), i will almost definatley be swapping to these. i did try a small rare earth but all that did was rocket the wagon to the middle of magnetic field, i didnt get chance to see if the coupling tripped or not. What Dapol could really do with is selling a tool for checking the trip pin heights, coupling height, and centralising the magents in the road bed. cheers Andy