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Lego track cleaner
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Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:57:22 GMT
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Here is a lego track cleaner unit that Gary Quinlan created for our display.
The cleaning unit is a cleaving cloth wrapped around a couple of weight
bricks. it works great and with a run or 2 over the track great traction and
shinney track is acheived.
Aaron
http://www.ozbricks.com/bugs/BLTG/pages/maintenence_units.htm
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
news:HE19MH.FFx@lugnet.com...
> Pretty exciting news!
>
> This is posted on behalf of BayLTC's David (Zonker) Harris, with his
> permission (and request to so post), who related the following to me:
>
> - - - -
>
> My home machine has lost the cookie to post to LUGNET, and Todd's
> on a bus to Sacramento to catch his Amtrak train to Fresno...so, I'll post
> the scoop herre first, and follow-up to Lugnet.Trains tomorrow or Monday. • ;-)
>
> The first model of this all-brass, limited-slip track cleaning car was • run
> on the BayLTC display layout (demonstration set-up), and performed very
> well. Dick ans Sharon Webster at Centerline worked with me to develop the
> the model.
>
> Pictures at;
> http://www.baylug.org/zonker/AUT13362.JPG
> http://www.baylug.org/zonker/AUT13363.JPG
> http://www.baylug.org/zonker/AUT13364.JPG
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> The body is their O-gauge product, but it needs extra machining and
> milling to fit the LEGO trucks. The price (without trucks) is $104, and • can
> be ordered! It comes in a padded box, with extra cleaning rollers (which • is
> a Good Thing, since you can see how dirty our track was by the grey • stripes
> on the white roller...). They are in contact with Jake, and may offer a
> model that includes trucks. Wait and see if there is new news on that • front.
>
> After a couple loops of a 20' x 32' layout (pushed in front of two locos
> and 17 freight cars), the engines were running more smoothly, and there • was
> a noticable improvement (lack of slow-down in certain areas). We ran this • in
> front of three different trains, to clean the wheels on the motors and
> rolling stock!
>
> The Centerline web site is http://www.centerline-products.com/.
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> I'll be working on a short web page with more info and background this
> weekend, but I wanted to get the word out, in case there are any other • clubs
> that might be looking for something to help clean their track at public
> displays. (BayLTC will be getting a second one, so we can run one on each • of
> the main tracks of the display layout, while we're settig up buildings!)
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> Regards,
>
> -Z-
>
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| (...) Very cool, and very bright ... think I might modify mine to include a cloth based second pass ... any other contraptions out there? (22 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.trains)
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