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Re: Track cleaners
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:40:32 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Benn Coifman wrote:
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A couple of other stupid cleaning tricks I’ve picked up. First, just letting
a motor or engine run around the track at the lowest setting on the
transformer is a great way to find the dirty spots. Second, the headlights on
the engines also give an indication when you hit dirty track. Even if the
engine rolls through, the light will flicker. Which is why I use a pair of
engines (with working headlights) back to back as in the photos.
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Neat cleaners! I’ve found that a single motor run around the track on full power
for 10 mins or so is generally enough to get smooth running. But with worries
about greenhouse gas emissions, I’ve been thinking about doing something that
uses less power - something along these lines may well be a solution for me too.
ROSCO
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Message is in Reply To:
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| (URL) Track cleaners (URL) Full Gallery> Out of a hatred of cleaning track, I've recently revised my track cleaner (the red one), then built second version (the yellow one). As I'll touch on in a moment, both are good, but neither is perfect. First, (...) (17 years ago, 8-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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