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Re: Dirty Track
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:20:33 GMT
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I recall that someone around here made a car that cleaned the rail as it
went. If I remember correctly they mounted a piece of foam rubber to the
last car of the train. It would clean the track on every pass. Does anyone
else recall it or have the URL?
-Nick
Tony Priestman wrote in message ...
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Cliff Olson (<Fp15CB.FKJ@lugnet.com>) wrote at
> 05:16:59
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> > Does anyone have a way to keep that nasty black stuff from getting all • over
> > the rails of your layout? I just went through a whole box of kleenex • getting
> > my track clean again.
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> Model railway people use something like an eraser. IIRC, here in the UK
> they're called track cleaning rubbers.
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> Judicious use of IPA on a cloth may be effective, but I don't know if it
> affects ABS, so try it on a useless bit first.
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> --
> Tony Priestman
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| Hi I did see one, but that's for the 9V track, I think Cliff was on about the 12 Volts I use Solvent Cleaner and a cotton buds and rub very hard, The black stuff has some thing to do with the air oxidising on the electric contacts' on the bottom of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Yeah I'd love to see that also. I've been thinking about making my own after I spend two evening scrubbing all of my track with a big pink eraser, and some rubbing alcohol on a q-tip. jt -- James J. Trobaugh james.trobaugh@ngltc.org North Georgia (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Dirty Track
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| On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Cliff Olson (<Fp15CB.FKJ@lugnet.com>) wrote at 05:16:59 (...) Model railway people use something like an eraser. IIRC, here in the UK they're called track cleaning rubbers. Judicious use of IPA on a cloth may be effective, but I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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