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QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley I'm also laying out my yard at the moment. I bought a couple of Kadee permanent magnet uncouplers, and stuck one down with rubber cement. (Yeah, I know, I'm "afraid of committment.") The critical thing that I've noticed is that it really wants a full car-length of straight track on either side so that the cars and couplers align properly. Then, they will uncouple well if the couplers are correctly centered on the car, and set to the right height with a coupler guage. I can see where these things are going to be very fussy. When I got this to work right, though, it was pretty neat. I could back off, and then go forward again and "spot" the car anywhere along the track, because the couplers would remain offset.
QUOTE: Originally posted by selector Okay, I'm gonna ask what some might consider a funny question at this point. Cacole, would you please describe for me the process of using a skewer to uncouple? Sometimes it seems to work like magic, and other times I cannot, for the life of me, get the cars to unhitch. What am I doing wrong?