Hello Railfans! Welcome to the new thread concerning “Working HO Couplers”.
NOTE - For those of you already familiar with this project and want to skip the intro, please skip down to " ALL COUGHT UP! ".
For those that are new, please read on…
This thread originally started in the “General Discussion” section of the forum.
Being that it somewhat revolved around some DCC particulars, the MR staff moved the thread to the “Electronics and DCC” section of the forum.
After many posts, and the answer been found to the original post, the subject drifted off onto the reason for needing DCC answers in the first place… to control a working set of couplers.
So where are we today? We have the couplers, but no DCC to control them. In its place, a magic wand. To further bring you up to speed, here is a list of video links (in order of production) marking each step in the coupler process.
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This video shows the first two test cars (boxcars) being tested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkQjlLqgATs
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Ofcourse, what is a good project without some sinicism? To wit - one of our galant readers was curious as to how the ‘flatcar’ version would be made. That led to - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV5yKGxATw4
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With two types now working, lets try them together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv36TN2P9wA
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After some deliberation amongst the thread readers and myself, the best version of the design finally arrived. Simple ‘over the roof’ activated uncoupling. https://www.youtube.com