Coupler used in a sentence

Coupler in a sentence as a noun

So no need for springs you've got all the slack you can handle in the couplers.

The acoustic coupler is dead people, get over it!

To start a train, is it the coupler springs not slack which allows each car to start rolling?

Some cars/engines don't have any draft gear at all and the coupler is welded right to the center / spine of the car.

None the less couplers do rust and removing tension means a rusty coupler could unlock and train crews hate that.

By 1981 or so the acoustic coupler was antiquated.

Wow, this is like the mobile era's acoustic coupler :D what's not to like about something that weird?

The UK and Europe still use crappy link and pin couplers from the 19th century on freight equipment, which is just insane at this late date.

But then you realise that they don't know what an acoustic coupler is, and they've never dialed a number but punched it in on buttons.

That's what I used to get on my terminal screen decades ago when I was trying to pull the phone out of the accoustic coupler and hang up.

Somebody has to climb in between cars to couple them, and car and train sizes are limited because the coupler design is weaker than the US AAR coupler or Russian couplers.

There are regulatory barriers and I'm sure the audio coupler technology they're using is patent-pending.

In the UK that was banned as the lines were all owned by the government monopoly and could not be touched so you had to put an acoustic coupler on the phone handset, believe it or not.

Had a 380z research machine, BBC micro in the final year and also access to a 2903 ICL mainframe running george over a 300buad acoustic coupler and then would take upto an hour to get a good connection.

Presumably the infection includes a driver to turn the audio system into an acoustic coupler, which would appear as a network device on the target machine.

I remember dialing the BBS on the phone and then sticking the handset in the acoustic coupler of my Novation CAT which was connected to the LNW System Expansion attached to my TRS-80 Model 1.

Realizing that you don't have as much experience with passenger trains, but just out of curiosity about the physics --On a theoretical passenger train where there is exactly zero coupler slack... say this train travels on a perfectly straight and level track so there's no need for coupler slack at all, maybe the cars are actually welded together for this experiment --Would it be particularly difficult for a single engine to start the train?