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Cheap, easy to find solution to dirt!
Cheap, easy to find solution to dirt!
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RR Redneck
Member since
July 2006
From: Pisa, IT
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Cheap, easy to find solution to dirt!
Posted by
RR Redneck
on Friday, December 15, 2006 11:25 PM
Tired of black wheel treads that are supposed to be shiny silver metal? Tired of nickel silver rail that looks like the lining of a tunnel in the early 1900s? If so, then run down to your nearest store, or raid your teenager's room or bathroom and swipe a few acne pads. They are non-corrosive, and non-abrasive textured pads soaked with alcohol and work wonders on dirty track and wheel sets and unlike abrasive track cleaning blocks, the dont screw up the weathering on turnout frogs.
Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
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ezielinski
Member since
September 2005
From: Greenville, WI
431 posts
Posted by
ezielinski
on Sunday, December 17, 2006 9:20 PM
I work in the healthcare industry, and obtain boxes of Isopropyl alcohol wipes from an "undisclosed location". These wipes, like your "pimple pads" make quick work of cleaning locomotive wheels and turnouts.
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