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There are many liquid cleaning products , dry & paste for HO modelers. <br /> <br />Also cleaning cars like the centerlinewww.centerline-products.com($64.00), Tony's clean machine ($99.00),http://www.ttx-dcc.com/technews/clean_machine.htm and the Aztec Annihilator www.aztectrains.com($124.00) <br /> <br />These three are the cream of the crop. I did own the centerline and traded up to the clean machine. At the time the Annihilator was not available. <br /> <br />My layout is not huge or complexed less than 200', single deck and all is almost in reach. <br /> <br />Therefore the above cleaning machines are not manatory on my layout.. <br /> <br />I now use the $3.00 MAAS paste, www.maasinc.com MR Jan 2003. <br /> <br />I have retired Tony's clean machine and it is up for sale. <br /> <br />I apply the paste as follows using T-Shirt material in short strips. <br /> <br />Get a small block of wood, about the size of a brite boy or use the brite boy it self(I DO) <br /> <br />Wrap the strip of T-Shirt material arount the block or BB, apply the paste to the material . <br /> <br />Drag the treated material along the track at an angle. <br /> <br />Allow it to SLIGHLY dry and then with a non-treated T_Shirt material wipe it off. <br /> <br />Using the small block or BB limits the excess paste from getting on everything else. <br /> <br />You can use the same idea in cleaning wheels. <br /> <br />Put a treated strip down on the tracks. <br /> <br />Postion one truck on the material, the other truck on bear rail. <br /> <br />Throttle up your pack, hold loco slighty above rail allowing the spinning wheels to touch the treated material. <br /> <br />Same procedure for the second truck and then untreated material to wipe excess off. <br /> <br />I use this method on locos that have 'nt been cleaned in 34 years. W O W!
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