new loco and track cleaner

Started by brbluewill, January 11, 2012, 11:32:18 PM

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upnick

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The wheel cleaner there in the video   Poliss  posted the link for them  from Plaza Japan a while ago 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wheel-Polish-Cleaner-N-scale-motorized-trains-/200665278343?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item2eb8952787

Same item as Gaugemaster  although cheaper  &   possibly quicker arriving with you  highly reccomend Plaza Japan's service  ;D   i   have one of the cleaners & they are superb  can be used on  DC  or DCC 

Newportnobby

Quote from: owl729 on January 19, 2012, 07:14:17 PM
Quote from: newportnobby on January 18, 2012, 08:17:54 PM
I have it on good authority from my local model shop (Transport Models Preston) the new track stuff from Woodland Scenics is due to be shipped in February so they may be available in March

After watching the video, I must say im very impressed. Did your contact at TMP give any indications of price in GBP £?
Cheers Mate,

Sorry, Owl. Mark at TMP didn't have the prices but he will be getting some. Drifting off topic a bit, I like to support my 'local' especially as they donated to the raffle, but I needed some code 55 electro points and TMP were £2.50 per point more than Rails. Loyalty will only stretch so far :(

Pengi

Have just received the wheel cleaner from Plaza Japan. Watched the video and noticed they are using cotton buds? Are these soaked in anything and does the track require any cleaning solutions? Sorry if this question is dense, have never had a wheel cleaner before and the instructions are in Japanese
Just one Pendolino, give it to me, a beautiful train, from Italy

Buffin

The video shows the cotton bud being pressed against the cleaning strips too. There wouldn't be any point in that if it hadn't been soaked in cleaning fluid. So I did - for the strips and the wheels.

Pengi

What do you use a cleaning fluid? Do you put the fluid over all of the cleaning strips?
Just one Pendolino, give it to me, a beautiful train, from Italy

Buffin

I don't claim any special knowledge of cleaning fluids. As it happens I use isopropyl alcohol after reading a magazine article a while back. Doubtless there will be plenty of other ideas.

As it also happens, I'm using my cleaner to run in a loco at the moment. Not quite the same as running it round a huge continuous circuit, but I'm just leaving it to run on the cleaner for a while and it's the equivalent of a lot of trips between terminus and fiddle yard.

Bikeracer

I wonder what the effect is on the rubber traction tyres on tender drives.

I've got one of those cleaners from Plaza and as far as I can see they're okay for diesels and loco drives,but for tender drive I'm not sure of the situation, and how do you clean the engine wheels apart from using a cotton bud or something soaked in IPA.

Allan
I'm not a complete idiot..some bits are missing.

Buffin

I put IPA on the wheels and the strips as the video shows, and then let it run against the end, so all the wheels come into contact with the IPA and the wheels get a bit of a polish. I assume from the video that that's the idea, anyway.

I haven't got anything with a tender drive, sorry :)

OwL

Just spotted this on Bachmann website. They have announced today that this has been released in UK:

http://www.bachmann.co.uk/


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Newportnobby

Thanks for that, Dave. :thumbsup:
As soon as they appear at the major shifters I'll be in the queue.

Bikeracer

I'm not a complete idiot..some bits are missing.

Jack

Quote from: Bikeracer on March 02, 2012, 12:22:25 PM
Think this'll be my choice...
http://www.dccsupplies.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=320

Allan

It's a wide heavy lump of brass. I hope you've got a strong loco to pull/push it, my Dapol 58 struggled, I used a Farish Diesel in the end. If you've got platforms, they don't like them either, the clips on the cleaning pad make the CMX very wide so as to catch your platform. I don't think the CMX is very keen on Peco Code 80 either, the cloth pads have a tendency to catch on the frogs of point work.

I use to think they were the bees knees for track cleaning when I first ordered mine. I've gone back to MK1 track rubber and elbow grease with occasional use of a lint free cloth with Isopropyl Alcohol on it.

Jack

Today's Experts were yesterday's Beginners :)

Bikeracer

Thanks Jack for that info,it's stopped me making an expensive mistake......back to I.P.A. and an old handkerchief for me then.

Allan
I'm not a complete idiot..some bits are missing.

bbdave

I just use a piece of pine block soaked with I.A. and my track rubber it keeps my track fine

Dave

OwL

Has any body seen the tidy track in any stores in the UK yet? Im very eager to get one. A review by anyone lucky to have one would be more than welcome? :wave:


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