LGB uncoupling tool

[dunnyrail]

All of the above are excellent ways to accomplish the task at hand. The only difference in my device is that I use a telescoping rod, not unlike an automobile antenna of days gone by. I purchased it at harbor Freight for about five dollars. It originally had a magnet on it's end, used for picking up small metal objects that hands could not easily reach. I took the magnet off and pop riveted a piece of sheet metal to the end, about the size of a credit card.

It fits in my pocket and allows me to extend it so I don't have to bend down to uncouple cars.

I do not have to bend down either, all my line is between 3 and 4 feet off the ground!
JonD

 

[G-force1]

This is the one I made for Accucraft chopper couplers, but it works on LGB as well.



Just a short piece of dowel with a strip of sheet metal inserted and pinned.

 

[Madman]

I do not have to bend down either, all my line is between 3 and 4 feet off the ground!
JonD

If I had to do it over I would have built a raised bed. But that's not going to happen. Perhaps, some day i may build an indoor layout in the attic over the garage.

 

[ebay mike]

If I had to do it over I would have built a raised bed. But that's not going to happen. Perhaps, some day i may build an indoor layout in the attic over the garage.

Of course you could always hire one of those mini-digger things and put a trench in all the way round, fed by a gradual slope to overcome any infirmity.

 

[Rhinochugger]

There's a much easier way.

1. Change the hook & loop to Bachmann buckeyes
2. Place strategic obstacles e.g. beech nut, between the sleepers
3. Every time the underside of the coupling touches the obstacle, the truck will uncouple
4. Remember to turn the controller off before the rest of the train has completed a circuit and smacks it up the ***

 

[Beddhist]

I remember reading on these pages how somebody had converted a selfie stick for the job.

 

[stockers]

There's a much easier way.

1. Change the hook & loop to Bachmann buckeyes
2. Place strategic obstacles e.g. beech nut, between the sleepers
3. Every time the underside of the coupling touches the obstacle, the truck will uncouple
4. Remember to turn the controller off before the rest of the train has completed a circuit and smacks it up the ***

I thought with Bachmann buckeyes you didn't need the beechnut.

 

[vsmith]

Butter knife worked for me, also a flat screwdriver