http://www.railroadgeekstick.com/index.html
The videos have neat sound by the way
Dave Nelson
Interesting, but I think I’ll ‘stick’ with the tried and true - wooden BBQ skewers . It doesn’t hurt as much when you accidently leave them behind at the club. Or lying about.
However if I’m not mistaken - the RIX uncoupling tool had a hole built in so you could affix a string/chain so you could wear it around your neck.
My two cents
Sigh!! As usual we S scalers are left out. Has anybody tried modifying the the On30 version for S?
Enjoy
Paul
i epoxied a rixpic to the lens of a maglight solitare penlight and it works great on n and ho couplers. with the light it is easy to see when trying to get between the coupler knuckles
C’mon! $10 got 2 BBQ skewers? [:O] By the way, the Rix Stik does not have a hole in it, but if you can’t put a hole in a 1/2" x 1 1/2" plastic handle you don’t belong in the hobby!! [:-^]
That is the funniest April fool’s joke I have ever seen LOL!!!
Give me a break, I guess Barnum was right, if you troll long enough you can find a sucker. $10.00, really, I am still rolling around on the floor laughing.
I hope those guys who did the testimonials got dancing girls or something for payment for endorsing something as silly as a $5.00 skewer with a ball on the end.
Just a thought
Harold
Wow, what a bargain – $10 for two cut-off shish-ka-bob skewers. Now I know how to really make a quick fortune. At $1 for a package of 50, that’s $9.96 profit for two of them.
Too much money.
WAY too much.
Im sticking big skewers … arkansas toothpicks in a bag of 100 for 1.00 out of the food store between my cars. These things are at least a foot long.
Any bets as to what the Geezer Stick will be?
the n scale rixpic does have a hole in the handle for tying a string or hanging on a nail.
You can pirate a hairpin if you can find one of those OLD FASHIONED Metal skewers in a flea market. Bend one end into a shepard’s crook and get at the couplers from the side and pull them by the pin sideways.
I must admit the ‘‘geek stick’’ is almost as unbelievable as the method of using a stick, or a skewer or any other prong to uncouple a car. What century are we living in??? Is there not somewhere or someone out there that can invent a new and decent method of coupling and uncoupling a car on a layout?? with all this new electronic hardware around is there a solution? I was at a train show in the fall and listened to people comment on what these guys were doing with chopsticks between the car, these people were new to the hobby, I told them they were uncoupling cars, they started to laugh and said I was kidding, I heard about 5 similar comments on this method, I think they were not too impressed.
I sent an email to them and asked if they were thinking of offering a DCC version of the Geek stick. They said they’d think about it.
I have bamboo skewers from the dollar store. In a few different sizes. I found I could not make them work to uncouple. I must have been doing something wrong. I do, however, think that the skewers will be perfect for different sizes of N and HO scale logs.
The Rix magnetic uncoupler I purchased from LHS for about $3.00 does fine!
Maybe in the future I will add the embedded or undermount magnetics.
Until then my magnetic tool will do fine; and leaves me, for now, as happy as a tadpole under a rock in a pristeen stream on a sunny day.
It’s true we’re in the 21st century now, but on the prototype someone still has to walk up to the car and pull the uncoupling lever to uncouple cars, so I have no problem doing it manually on my model railroad.
It would not be too hard to tap a computer screen and double click the one coupling to disengage. With sufficient electricity and failsafe one could make electro couplers that will not require anyone to pull that pin. In fact, do away with that air system and electrify everything.
I have no trouble actually lifting cars and setting them back down.
Maybe the Geezer Stick will be for poking around in your wallet to see if there’s anything left …
The layouts I operate on have plastic swizzle sticks for uncoupling, with Velcro on them to attach to the same Velcro that holds the throttles and the pencils. Those are free if you do enough, um, swizzling at the local bar and grill. They work OK. It helps to remove the olive first, actually. Just a tip.
The search for an uncoupling stick that actually works every time goes on however which is why I asked about the Geek Stick.
By the way … if the idea of a $10 BBQ skewer gets your goat, don’t forget you can now buy ready built Plasticville structures – at a premium price – so you don’t have to do the “work” of assembling them. And if you use the woven cardboard strip method of making scenery, MicroMark now cuts the cardboard boxes up for you and sells – at a premium price – the strips of cardboard.
The next trend – hire a professional shopper (at a premium price) to go to swap meets for you.
Dave Nelson
I’d be happy to read bulletin boards and post for people. For a small fee of course. 
I have to agree. Until we can get a scale brakeman to get out of the locomotive cab and walk down the train to uncouple the cars, manual uncoupling by a real human hand is the most prototypical way to do it regardless of whether or not it impresses some ignorant spectators.