cleaning wheels

cnw1995

Member since
July 2003
From: Crystal Lake, IL
8,059 posts

Posted by cnw1995 on Monday, June 20, 2005 9:51 AM

You know, I never thought to check the wheels when one of my engines started acting 'jerky'

Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.

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Jumijo

Member since
January 2005
From: New England
6,241 posts

Posted by Jumijo on Monday, June 20, 2005 5:33 AM

When I get post war pieces that haven't been cleaned in years, I scrape off any caked on deposits with a flat screw driver blade. Then I swab the wheel down with 91% isopropil alchohol on a q-tip. All the crud comes right off.

Jim

Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale

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lionelsoni

Member since
December 2001
From: Austin, TX
10,096 posts

Posted by lionelsoni on Saturday, June 18, 2005 8:58 PM

I carve the black stuff off with an Xacto knife.

Bob Nelson

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waltrapp

Member since
February 2001
From: US
338 posts

Posted by waltrapp on Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:14 AM

When I tried it the white soft cleaning wheel turned to black almost instantly. It didn't take long to wonder if dirt was coming off the wheels onto the brush or vice versa! And I keep my equipment fairly clean so it wasn't as though I was cleaning several years' worth of crude off. I did put goo-gone, or maybe it was de-natured alcohol not sure, on the brush.

How do you guys do it? Is there some trick or secret?

- walt