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A good track cleaning car

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Posted by loathar on Saturday, July 12, 2008 11:01 PM
 Rotorranch wrote:

Nowhere as trick as the CMX, but it works for me!

It's one of my old Life-Like track cleaning cars. I don't put fluid in the tank, I just wet the felt pad with isopropyl alcohol, and run it. I very seldom run it anymore, as I don't have much trouble with dirty track these days.

Rotor

I used to have one of those. Did a pretty good job. Wish they still made them.

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Posted by Rotorranch on Sunday, July 13, 2008 7:51 PM
 loathar wrote:
 Rotorranch wrote:

Nowhere as trick as the CMX, but it works for me!

It's one of my old Life-Like track cleaning cars. I don't put fluid in the tank, I just wet the felt pad with isopropyl alcohol, and run it. I very seldom run it anymore, as I don't have much trouble with dirty track these days.

Rotor

I used to have one of those. Did a pretty good job. Wish they still made them.

I see them on ePay occasionally. Usually cheap. I just put P2K wheels on this one last night while I was locked out of here. Whistling [:-^]

I've got at least one more of them new in box I found at the train shows several years ago.

Rotor

 Jake: How often does the train go by? Elwood: So often you won't even notice ...

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Posted by Rotorranch on Sunday, July 13, 2008 7:57 PM

http://cgi.ebay.com/Life-Like-Track-Cleaning-Car-No-T-584-In-Box-HO-scale_W0QQitemZ250267812793QQihZ015QQcategoryZ19135QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

There is also a couple of Ulrich's on there now, that look to have a brass tank.

Tyco also made the same car as my Life-Like car. I think IHC might have also.

Rotor

 Jake: How often does the train go by? Elwood: So often you won't even notice ...

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Posted by loathar on Monday, July 14, 2008 12:10 PM

RotorRanch-That's the exact one I had.

I ran across these at Dallas Model Works.
http://www.dallasmodelworks.com/products/product_detail_accessories.asp?ItemNumber=NO-528-60157

Look pretty interesting.

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