Lionel Uncoupler and couplers some work, some don't

Roger...how is the a 3-rail scale topic.  You are talking about Lionel couplers!  I have moved this to the proper forum.

If the uncoupler armature is too close to the track, it may not have enough movement to uncouple.  Of course, exactly what kind of truck/coupler and perhaps some pictures would be useful here.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

If the uncoupler armature is too close to the track, it may not have enough movement to uncouple.  Of course, exactly what kind of truck/coupler and perhaps some pictures would be useful here.

I'll have to get back to you with pics if I can get close enough.  Some are definitely Lionel couplers that are part of the truck and they hang too close to the track.  Some are on scale model trains - hence the reason I posted to 3-rail scale trains as well as traditional 3-rail trains and they have these plates that seem to take a lot of force to open.  Since he has quite a few cars with varying degrees of quality, I thought I would focus on getting the engines uncoupling reliably.  I think I can fix the "plate" coupler engines but the ones with the "button" seems to either mean rigging up some replacement or just giving up on the idea of uncouplers.

Roger

Roger, I would temper your expectations.  Please see my reply on the other thread you started about this topic.

I see lots of cars with the plates on the bottom of the truck that take too much force to open, that's a pretty common complaint.

I had a similar problem and I added 3 layers of "Gaffer" tape over the rails to lift the car coupler ever so slightly.