Great idea, something I'll going to try on my layout. Thanks for sharing.

A simple yet effective solution at no cost and does not detract from the scenery, excellent !!

excellent idea thank you. Can't believe that nobody has come up with a really effective unobtrusive uncoupling design in the past 60+ years !

I've been using this method for years. It just works. Also works with the hook and loop continental style couplers I use on my Sprinter units (less obtrusive). Another tip is to glue the plastic strip to one end of a Peco loco lift, making it easy to separate and pick up rolling stock from the layout.

simple and effective

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. I shall try this on my N-gauge track. Cheers, Jim L

This was helpful. I prefer this to the you tuber videos that go “ta da” and keep their work a secret like Mi6 😂 Much appreciated

i do enjoy watching tutorials its surprising what can be used on a layout, but how cheap it can be done which makes modelling even more enjoyable Paul

Great video - very professional and easy to watch. Look forward to more!

Such a brilliant idea! This is going on my layout!

What a simple but ingenious idea well thought out And thanks for sharing

Really interesting video! 😀 I personally use Kadee couplings however they can be quite an expense when you have to go and convert every coupling! I think this method looks great and would work fantastic on those more budget shunting layouts or even a modern container depot! 😀👍 Good work!

Brilliantly simply!

If you can get thinner acetate sheet it will bend for the chassis of the Ruston whilst still providing enough resistance to raise the hooks. I found some from the side of a strawberry punnet that seemed to work pretty well.

Thank-you. Very best wishes, John

This is a good trick thanks for teaching us about this

You're my new favourite model railway channel! Finally another young person like me doing the job right 🙌🙌🙌

Very good video, a good tip for uncoupling the wagons,. Thank you for sharing. Greetings from Portugal. 😉👍

What a great idea 👍👍

I've used this on my little inglenook siding after seeing your video. Thank you for the great tip. Oh, and your little peckett is just absolutely stunning! I'd love one.

that is sooooo simple and dam brilliant well done

Thanks for the tipp! I vill try this on my layout!

what a brilliant discovery - will give this a go when building my next (first in about 20 years!) layout

That is a very good idea. Cheap & simple.

🤩 wow. I had in mind but never had actually tried it. I am planning to try track isolating using these transparent strips. Especially on curved tracks

Simple, but very effective. 👍

Great tip just found your channel and subbed you . You have got some great videos out there

Brilliant idea, no bulgy devices and no need to refit all your cars with Kadee which can be expensive.

Ah Ha! I just left a comment on another one of your videos wondering about this and luckily wound up here! Thank you!

Precisely what I needed, thank you \m/

Thats well good, going to try that once I get the layout built , didn't think the wagons would stay coupled , thanks for the tip

Good tip - use straws for drainpipes and guttering on buildings. Wooden barbecue skewers good for telegraph poles etc

Great idea, well described especially pros and cons. Got me thinking now. As previous comments, I use a home made shunters pole which works well, but introducing an invisible un-coupler could work in certain sidings. Thanks for the share. All the best. Brian @The Angels.

That’s brilliant!

Excellent so simple

great video, thank you

Brilliant just brilliant thank you

Brilliant, just tried this. Now I can get some shunting done at the far end of my track without having to stretch over. Thanks!

Very clever ..like it

Really liked the video, a really impressive tip. All I tend to use when uncoupling rolling stock and locos is a paper clip with the end bent straight. I push the straight end be tween the two tension lock couplings and pull up, I guess it works a bit like a shunters Pole. However it doesn’t give off the same seamless effect as yours.

This is going to work very well on the shunting puzzle I am building. Has all the necessary ingredients - quick, invisible, cheap.

Very clever! You could probably cut the pieces with a more narrow "waist" in the middle and have them still work them same. Starting building a Timesaver plus a Ingelnook Wye shunting layout in N scale. I'm planning on using small stepper motors from Aliexpress to control turnouts and magnet uncouplers for Micro-Trains couplers.

Very useful, thanks for that

Thanks! Really useful tutorial

Fantastic thank you very much congratulations

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I tried it today. I think the plastic I used was TOO STRONG as it pushed my wagons into the air rather than uncoupling them. However, I persevered with your advice and opened up the wagons, put 6x2p coins in each if them and the problem was solved. Furthermore.....the wagons do not derail so much on the points as they are carrying that extra weight. I love the fact that your system is invisible.... Thank yoh very much!

Thanks for this Might give it a try

Good short video, thumbs up :)

Great idea I have already seen 3/5 times. You already have pointed the main advantages (costs nothing, reliable, barely visible, zero modifications to rolling stock or extremely minor), I have found another one : works with any mecanical locking by vertical motion couplers. That includes HO standard and my choice, the Roco Universal. I'm convinced, use for me granted.

I've just discovered your channel, and this video, after searching YT for "uncoupling Hornby tension lock". I've tried Kadees - closer coupling but getting the height right even with their height gauge is "hit and miss". I've tried Peco and Hornby units. AND NOW I'VE FOUND THIS! It's virtually invisible, it seems to be idiot-proof (I'll let you know after my own experiments!), and it uses left-overs from other purchases. Thank you!

When you accidentally find genius on youtube... I've never been interested in model trains until I somehow came across this vid and saw this. Well played. Now back to my normal KZfaq viewing.

Brilliant

After experimenting a bit I've found 2 litre pop bottles to be the perfect plastic for both rigidity and also the natural curve reduces the chances that it'll ping out of the track when under tension.

Nice one

Very interesting idea 💡 👍 I’m not sure it would work for me, as I have fully ballasted rails and relex-couplings, but I might find a solution based on your idea. Thanks for sharing this video 👍

clever !!

I've been using this method for a while now. I started out using Peco uncouplers but found that my DMU and some of my diesel locos didn't like them. I've actually made mine quite a bit longer than yours appear to be. IRC I cut the strips 120mm long. This allows the decoupler to deform more easily when a loco passes over it but still gives enough "lift" for uncoupling. The other thing I'll mention is don't make the strip too narrow otherwise the wagon's coupler might miss it. I've made mine 11mm wide which seems to be wide enough and still gives clearance each side for wheels. I've even got these decouplers installed successfully on curves.

Great idea well thought-out, you probably weren't aware, and I'm trying to recall it's name, but a layout that appeared in a couple of books and RM used the same system - but that was in the 1970s lol!

This clever little uncoupler isn't new but the ones I saw at my mrc meets had a ramp bowing up but had the ends bent flat to the sleepers and one end fixed and the other end allowed to slide and flatten , this will allow all stock to ride over the ramp without jumping up and sticking... Hope this helps ..

I was using this system back in the late 60s/early 70s when the tension lock became common

Terrific idea . Thanks for sharing. Nice factory building in the background, scratch built or...?

Super ! Je vais essayer en HO Français. Merci pour le Tuto ;)

Tried this today and it works perfectly. I had to stick a track pin by the sleeper on either end as the plastic kept slipping under the sleeper, but once I did it was fine.

Great idea. But, I'll have to buy something in a blister pack! :)

Hi, I have seen this type of de-coupler once before in a photo of someone's layout. Just wondering if it'll work for N gauge?? Love the videos and I'm also building a modular layout x

do you think this will work with Marklin close couplers on M track, or maybe a modified version of it because Marklin trains use a center rail electrical pickup for power. Marklin is just the brand I have and I wanted to see if this would work.

what a great idea and low budget to boot well 0 budget

Would it be possible to use a glued pile of ballast to function as an uncoupler?

That’s a proper “kiss” idea. Epic. (Keep It Simple Stupid)

This was standard on Triang TT railways almost 60 years ago. I thought it was obtrusive and anything but invisible.

Gave it ago Saddly didn't work for me as my loco kept hitting it and derailing but they are all low body so going try magnets

any ideas for N gauge?

I tried to make this work but failed. I modified a piece of Kato n gauge track by cutting a couple of slits in the base and putting a plastic strip between. The trains derailed each time so I abandoned it

Genius, apart from the poor little ruston 😂👍

great video, thank you