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In lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, John Neal wrote:
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Whoa, thanks for the heads up. Our tree is in a carpeted room, and I doubt
I’ll ever run the thing except around Christmas time. It’ll probably spend
most of its life on display.
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The painted silver parts can take a certain amount of abuse (I mean, the stuff
doesn’t flake off when you rub it, so...), and simply tipping over probably
isn’t enough to do much damage unless it’s at high speed on, say, some sort of
natural aggregate (stone, sand, etc.). Carpet should be fine. Not having
hordes of little kids reaching out to grab at it as it zips past should help a
lot in that regard, and not having a three foot drop to floor level will really
help. Even on carpet, having the cars land on top of each other would probably
be enough to do damage to the paint.
Also, note that this only applies to the new painted silver/gold. They’ve
also been molding parts in silver/gold plastic, like the 1x1 cones, or the
various parts they used to make the Ark of the Covenent in the Indiana Jones
Well of Souls set (the treasure chest from the truck chase set was painted).
That type of part is as abuse-resistant as any other basic color of opaque
brick. And if you’re not sure which type you have, check the finish. If the
color is very smooth and even, it’s probably painted. If you can see any sort
of swirls in the pigment, it’s metallic colored plastic.
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Sad to hear about the scratching issues, Dave. I will remember to be less
fastidious! 
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Yeah, you say that now... Um, if anyone ever approaches you about doing a
layout adjacent to real operational steam engines, tell then NO. The reason I
was tearing my stuff apart and washing individual bricks with a toothbrush was
because it was the only way I could figure out to get the soot and oil and other
gunk off my MOCs. I’d even tried using handiwipes on the Nerd Herd car, and all
it did was make black smears out of black spots. Even worse, when I got around
to washing the parts from that car, I found that the black smudges were much
more difficult to scrub off of the white parts than had been the case with the
white parts on two other cars. Normally, the worst I have to deal with is the
eventual build-up of dust, and a keyboard brush is the quickest/cleanest way to
deal with that, but this sooty grime was truly disgusting, and there simply
didn’t appear to be any other way to completely remove it from my stuff. I’m
just glad that the largest things I brought were cars. I still have a few
things that I have to wash, all of which have at least one trouble piece (cloth
capes, stickers, a painted Jango Fett torso, a loose micromotor and wires), but
I can get by without any of those items for the rest of the year.
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