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tarnished track
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lugnet.trains
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Date:
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Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:10:33 GMT
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Hello,
I just got a new train set and I was playing with it last night. I put in a
couple of old straight rail pieces that are probably 5 yrs old with the new rail
pieces. I had noticed that the old track feels rough to the touch like there is
a small amount of oxide on the surface. When I was running the train around my
loop, I could see a very noticeable decrease in speed when the engine was over
the older track.
I did a search to see if I could find something about this and found mostly
people talking about some kind of track cleaning compound for model railroading.
I also found one comment that 9V track is designed to clean itself.
So how do people get rid of the oxide or if I just run my train over it a bunch
of times, will it knock enough of the oxide off at the contact points that
performance will improve?
Thanks for any input and sorry if this was been discussed in gory detail before.
Douglas Pool
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: tarnished track
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| (...) This has been discussed before but I would say that there is no firm conclusion yet. While I am a proponent of cleaning LEGO elements if they get to the point of being visibly dirty or sticky, I'm in the "don't clean rails unless you really (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: tarnished track
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| (...) I am afraid I have to reply to myself. Last night I noticed that I was incorrect in my assumption that my train engine was running slower over the older track. I had put the rails at the end of a curve and the engine actually slows down a bit (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-04, to lugnet.trains)
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