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 Posted - May 10 2019 : 11:38:16 PM
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Having sat in disuse for a couple of months, dust and oxide
crudded up the rails of Armadilloville. Using a Walthers, or
Model Power, not sure which it is, cleaning car as below,
and a few drops of Wahl's Hair Clipper Oil (credit to
professional model railroader Lionel Strange) I ran the
oiled scrap of paper towel once around the layout. In the
next half dozen or so passes, I ran a dry scrap of paper towel
under same track cleaning car. This is what I got back:
A close up:
I find no slippage from drive wheels, and the track remains fairly
oxide free for months. No damage to traction tires or plastic.
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Posted - May 11 2019 : 08:12:32 AM
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Cool technique!
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Posted - May 11 2019 : 10:02:44 PM
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I've had success with it, and I've tried about everything.
Track cleaning is something that most model rail heads
hold near and dear, but I hadn't come across any of them
that worked a hoot. The guy that wrote an article on
this was Lionel Strange, a British professional model
railroader who did some stunning work in modeling
HOn 2 1/2.
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