In-line Radial Decouplers

[Nalin_Airheart]

This is a part idea first of all, second of all I'd like to explain why an in-line radial decoupler isn't an oxymoron or as insane as it sounds. So while screwing around with asparagus staging I thought of something that might be good for new ideas. The part in theory would be a ring similar to a decoupler except that it would be a part of the main rocket body that decouples anything attached to it instead of putting on radial decouplers. This would either be a ring that attaches the same way as a radial decoupler except that it covers an entire flat cross section (z,x) of the rocket while not disturbing anything that its on. I've been doing this already by attaching things ON normal decouplers so that they'll fall off with it when staged, the only problem is that parts 'snap' to their CoG instead of where the mouse is when you try to attach them in the VAB from my experience so for example orange fuel tanks will screw some of my designs over so I have to use smaller tanks radially and put orange ones underneath.

tl;dr I want a part like a normal decoupler that makes anything attached radially to it fall off when staged.

Edited August 6, 2013 by Nalin_Airheart