My reason for wanting to do this is that I need to install in some gently curving sidings, and the Gargraves units are perhaps 6-9inches long. Supe O #37 units will work, but they can be tough to find.
I've done this in a couple of spots where I decided to add uncoupling sections after my layout was ballasted and didn't want to tear up track. I used a monentary push button from Radio Shack on the hot feed to the coil and grounded the other wire to the outside rail. I left enough rail with the coil to allow crimping it over the center rail where installed. The most difficult part was cutting the ties to shape and removing the installed ballast.
Stuartmit After scraping of the wire varnish don,t forget to add a bit of shrik tubing
on the now naked wire to avoid shorts. The whole process is unnesessary as
Gargraves sells some very nice uncopling sections which look and operate
just fine. I did not like the way the home made items looked after I made it
and I switched to Gargaves unit.Tom O'Pray Rockville,MD
don't remember who but either this great mag (Classic Toy Trains ) or the other one (OGR) (Sorry Bob) did an article about this about a year ago it seems.
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I have read an article in a book called 100 Tips for your model railroad" published about 15 years ago by Greenberg. In it, there were instructions as to how to remove the magnet from a 6019 027 uncoupling track, and install in Gargraves track. Has anyone done thi?; If so, have you any wisdom to impar?. I find that the wire exposed from the magnet has a laquer finish which you have to scrape off. I have installed them,, but not yet wired them up. Interested to hear experiences.
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