I have an unidentified liquid track cleaning car which consists of a metal cleaner-retaining tank inside a HO "Monsanto" marked hopper car. (No top) There are two "screws "in the top of the tank, one looks to be a fill hole and the other to be a metering screw with a long shank. The bottom of the car sports a felt covered metal pad (pads are replaceable), the pads having enough weight to rub on the rail tops. However, I do not find any hole in the bottom of the tank directly under the metering shank to allow fluid to be dripped onto the felt. Does anyone have any comment on this? Thanks!!
BuckeyeandWalnut I have an unidentified liquid track cleaning car which consists of a metal cleaner-retaining tank inside a HO "Monsanto" marked hopper car. (No top) There are two "screws "in the top of the tank, one looks to be a fill hole and the other to be a metering screw with a long shank. The bottom of the car sports a felt covered metal pad (pads are replaceable), the pads having enough weight to rub on the rail tops. However, I do not find any hole in the bottom of the tank directly under the metering shank to allow fluid to be dripped onto the felt. Does anyone have any comment on this? Thanks!!
AHM.
Russell
If you have a metering screw, it should be where the fluid drips onto the pad. My inexpensive caboose, with a weighted felt pad, does not have a metering control, but it does make a positive difference.
Just put some fluid in it and see if the pad gets damp (may take awhile). Even just the pad sliding over the track will help to clean it. There are directions on how to make a piece of masonite drag along under a box car to clean track. It doesn't take much to help clean the track.
Good luck,
Richard
Here it is. AHM track cleaning car.
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Thanks! As soon as I opened up the e-mail, there it was. I am still wondering why the small well in the bottom of the tank directly under the metering screw has no dispensing hole in it? I'll tinker some more with it. Jim
It doesn;t take a very big hole to keep the pad damp. A hole big enough to be very obvious would probably gush liquid all over the track, not a good thing.
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jeffrey-wimberly Here it is. AHM track cleaning car.
Ah, the hyperbole on the box. "Add realism and excitement". Yes, because the real reailroads drag around giant cotton pads under covered hoppers filled with alcohol.