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So, having an issue with the clampotron jrs like a lot of people who play ksp apparently. This is weird though. The problem doesn't happen the first time around. Instead it happens the second time around. I'm using the clampotrons in a vtol engine and have two sets. First set holds the engine horizontal (I'll call these the h-ports) and the second holds it vertically (call these v-ports). The first time I decouple the engine module it connects to the vports perfectly fine. When I decouple it and move it back to the hports though, it refuses to dock despite having a near perfect alignment, and it no longer docks to the vports either despite just undocking from it a moment ago. So you'd think the problem was that something was blocking its path? Nope. While I do clip in landing gear to make the transition back and forth automatic neither have caused an issue, and I rerooted the module to start in the vertical position and got the problem in reverse. Decouple from the vports, able to couple to the hports flawlessly, cannot couple to either position after. So it definitely isn't that. As far as I can tell the docks won't attract each other after they connect the first time. I thought they might just do this on their own but the craft I drew inspiration from does something very similar and can switch indefinitely with very few hitches. They simply stop attracting each other after the first time they do. Any sort of advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Up to this point I've been very happy with how this engine seems to work and it'd be a waste to have to trash it. Vport docked after decoupling from hport: Hport NOT docked after decoupling a second time from vport: Vport not docked after trying to redock when the Hport failed to dock: Oh, should probably mention this is in ksp 1.1.3. Same problem occurs in 1.2.1 too though.