track cleaning

[Anonymous]

Help
I used a small amount of Goo Gone on a cloth to remove dirt from a section of rail. Now I am getting green spots of oxidation occuring all over my layout. If I remove it with a cleaning block it goes away but reappears several days later. I have nickel silver rail. Any ideas on how to remove this and prevent it from comming back.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like the rail is nickel-silver plated over brass, I'm probably wrong though. I say it may be plated because that is the color brass turns when it oxidizes. I used to have brass track.

[cprted]

After aplying the goo gone, let it sit for a few seconds than wipe it of with a clean rag. This should help prevent further green spots. If the goo gone sits it will simply become a goo collecctor.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Ted. I was afraid that maybe my rail was ruined. I will try your idea.

John

[Anonymous]

Hi John,
Here's a tip from my website, buy a roller, the kind used to roll the seams on wallpaper. They are just over one inch wide, and have a diameter of an inch and a quarter. Buy a pieces of wood about one foot six inches long and an inch and a quarter wide by half inch thick, tape it to the wallpaper roller. Now cut up some 6 inch lengths of jiffy cloth and strip them down to just over an inch wide and rap it around the roller. Sew the seams together and apply Isopropyl Alcohol to the cloth. Now roll the roller over the track and see just how much dirt and filth comes off the track onto the roller. Have fun