Hello all,
As you know magnets are polarized. Every magnet has a "+" and a "-".
I was just wondering if those of you that do uses the Kadee uncoupling magnets; delayed or non-delayed, do you align you magnets so all the polarities match?
Or, do you just glue them down without regard to polarity?
Thanks for your input.
Post Script: Normally I would post this query to the Kadee forums but they seem to have vanished.
J.J.
"Uhh...I didn’t know it was 'impossible' I just made it work...sorry"
jjdamnit Hello all, As you know magnets are polarized. Every magnet has a "+" and a "-". I was just wondering if those of you that do uses the Kadee uncoupling magnets; delayed or non-delayed, do you align you magnets so all the polarities match? Or, do you just glue them down without regard to polarity? Thanks for your input. Post Script: Normally I would post this query to the Kadee forums but they seem to have vanished. J.J.
Instructions don't mention polatity
https://kadee.com/html/308ins.pdf
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jjdamnit ...do you just glue them down without regard to polarity?
...do you just glue them down without regard to polarity?
Yes.
Ed
While the magnets have polarity the glad hands on the coupler don't.(otherwise they would be magnets too) So polarity does not matter.
I don't think it even matters if you are installing rows of rare earth magnets that do the same thing as the K-D's but are less visually intrusive. Thinking and knowing are different so I hedged my bet and installed those all + on one side of the track and all - on the other.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
I pulled all of those ugly things off of my track and stuck them on the refrigerator where magnets belong. They are nice for holding train schedules or other pieces of paper.
I use an uncoupling tool that I made following a design I read about in MR several years ago. It’s a piece of floral wire with a couple of 90 degree bends at the end stuck in the end of a pencil size wooden dowel. Some people use shish kabob skewers but I don't like teriyaki weathering on my cars. LOL
With Kadee magnets just make sure the top side is up.
Lone Wolf and Santa Fe I pulled all of those ugly things off of my track and stuck them on the refrigerator where magnets belong. They are nice for holding train schedules or other pieces of paper. I use an uncoupling tool that I made following a design I read about in MR several years ago. It’s a piece of floral wire with a couple of 90 degree bends at the end stuck in the end of a pencil size wooden dowel. Some people use shish kabob skewers but I don't like teriyaki weathering on my cars. LOL With Kadee magnets just make sure the top side is up.
I removed the ones on my mainline a number of years ago because they were causing unwanted uncoupling. I find they are still useful on spurs and yard tracks. I use the under track magnets so they are not visible. I use bamboo skewers to uncouple in any place I don't have a magnet. I had bought the KD uncoupling tool but was always misplacing it and bamboo skewers are cheap and plentiful. If I lose one, no big deal because I have lots more from the same package.