England?

Quote from: cmason on July 10, 2026, 02:02:13 AMIf I do this every few weeks I get perfect running round the back there. If I let things go I get many sticky moments.

Yeah - I hate it when you get sticky moments round the back

You guys have great memory. I can only remember a few. The one that sticks out is Shannon by Henry Gross. Then it's Bread, ELO, Doobie Brothers, Kansas for the most part. The rest would be Hawaiian stuff like Kalapana, Cecilio and Kapono, Olomana.

And then the disco phase, then Journey rolled through.

I wonder who'll be meeting France in the final?  

I too have one of these Tomix track cleaners although it was sold under the Atlas label. On the matter of cleaning fluids, MRH a year ago had an article on what cleaning fluids were optimal. If my memory serves me correctly, they suggested using non-polar solvents. White spirits or Shellite fit the bill. I took their advice and now I use nothing but white spirits (in a CMX track cleaning car). Excellent!!

Webbo

 

Dukes Rule

Quote from: Moonglum on July 09, 2026, 07:32:30 PMWell done Scott @scottmitchell74 for joining in! The sad thing is I can recall most of your list (and you were just a nipper then) but totally clueless with todays pop music. Coincidently, I watched Ridley Scott's "Bladerunner" last night with Vangelis's evoking soundtrack (Dick Morrisey on sax).

Tim

I'm a few years older than Scott and my early 7" singles years (1980 - 1982) included everything by The Specials, The Selecter, The Beat, Madness, The Bodysnatchers, Bad Manners, quite a few by UB40 up to One In Ten, Cars by Gary Numan, Working for the Yankee Dollar by The Skids, amongst others. After that time I moved towards bands like Blancmange, Human League, OMD, Japan, Soft Cell, Simple Minds, Big Country, then went Batcaver/Goth with people like Specimen, Marc & the Mambas, Bauhaus, etc.
I grew up in a musical house, my brother was into prog in the 70s, and bought huge numbers of singles to be a school disco DJ. My eldest sister was into The Police, Genesis, Bowie, Elton John. My other sister was into 2-Tone, then Adam & The Ants but then took me with her into New Romantics and then Goth.

Hello all.

A quick tour of the Kookaburra facility with Dr Karl.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPHWmtTdGsM

Mark

I have had one of those Tomix track cleaners for a long time now. Highly recommend.

Its very effective when I get dirty track issues in the section of the desktop railway that runs behind the TV/monitor and a bit close to the window ( which tends to create an excess of humidity back there in seasons like now - hot outside air with aircon running inside and albeit the aircon dries the air its not fast enough ). So dust accumulates and damp modifies it. So I have a routine of using a powerful(*) loco (a long one so less contact problems) to first send the cleaner round in vaccuum mode (remarkably effective given the size) followed by another round in "grinding" mode and then a third round with cleaning pads soaked in Tomix track cleaner or IPA (which ever I grab first - and I mean the other IPA - not the beer ). Sometimes I also couple the Minitrix track cleaner wagon for extra effect. An issue with the Miitrix is getting new "consumables". I can easily get replacement Tomix pad and sander disks (they are sticky backed replacements - jst peel off the old ones ) however i can never seem to find stock of the Minitrix pads.

If I do this every few weeks I get perfect running round the back there. If I let things go I get many sticky moments. And I know that grinding the rails is probably a bad idea however its not really grinding per se - more like a "light sanding".

(*powerful and/or long required as otherwise I end up despacthing a second "rescue" loco in order to give a nudge and get things moving as, unfortunately, its a bit inaccessible back there for the skycrane aka the "hand of god" rescue service    ).

Colin.

I've been pulling for the old St. George's Cross but The Last Ride of Messi and The Advent of Braut Haaland have been very intriguing.


I have been entertained. Let's hope for high drama!