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Re: First Third Party product for the LEGO(r) Trains market?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 28 Apr 2003 05:05:07 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Terry Prosper writes:
> But wouldn't a piece of clothing and water-soap do the trick? 104$ for a
> gadget that will probably take more time cleaning the track than what you'd
> take to wide it clean with a cloth, it seems expensive to me.
You haven't tried to clean a club layout at a train show. A double-loop, 15'x
30' layout is going to be over 180 running feet of track. Actually, since you
have to do each rail separately, it's closer to 360 feet of track. That's not
including sidings, additional loops, the inconvenience of cleaning track that
goes through tunnels, etc.
Also, cloth is not really abrasive enough to clean electric train track [1]. You
really have to apply some elbow grease to get it clean, especially if some of
the track's over ten years old.
Additionally, the joints in the rails tend to catch paper and cloth, causing
threads to get stuck in between the rails. Unsightly, and additional work to
remove them.
I've done spot cleaning on our layouts, and I'd estimate that cleaning the
entire 360 feet of track described above would take a painstaking 30 minutes, if
not longer. Not to mention the sore arms and fingers that this sort of work
produces. I sure wouldn't want to be on track cleaning detail.
If there's a product that we can simply run around the track for 5 minutes,
while we're setting up other things (essentially cleaning the track in no time
at all), that would be worth it's weight in chrome bricks.
Rick Clark
PNLTC
[1] This is true for traditional electric train gauges as well (N, HO, O, etc).
That's why this product exists in the first place.
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