Wheel cleaning
Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2019 6:41 am
My hobby horses include this alongside track cleaning, see another thread.
I have used a number of methods over the years and found all to have drawbacks.
I met Matthias from Germany last weekend at the superb Perth show. He was launching his machine which uses a cunning jiggler to rub wheel treads of all rolling stock in a moving train with felt and your preferred solvent.
Having seen his simple, elegant track cleaner wagons and having great respect for German engineers, I reckon this very new bproduct may well work in OO/HO for which it is designed.
Our shallow flanges are a major challenge which may preclude its use for P4 and even EM.
I discussed with him the possibility of a version for us and agreed the small market is not encouraging and diy mods will be non trivial.
Cogitation aided by Stan’s Malt led me to buy one anyway. It should arrive this month and I plan to evaluate it in OO first. If it works, a tear down and pondering mods for a P4 trial will follow....watch this space for my reports.
I have used a number of methods over the years and found all to have drawbacks.
I met Matthias from Germany last weekend at the superb Perth show. He was launching his machine which uses a cunning jiggler to rub wheel treads of all rolling stock in a moving train with felt and your preferred solvent.
Having seen his simple, elegant track cleaner wagons and having great respect for German engineers, I reckon this very new bproduct may well work in OO/HO for which it is designed.
Our shallow flanges are a major challenge which may preclude its use for P4 and even EM.
I discussed with him the possibility of a version for us and agreed the small market is not encouraging and diy mods will be non trivial.
Cogitation aided by Stan’s Malt led me to buy one anyway. It should arrive this month and I plan to evaluate it in OO first. If it works, a tear down and pondering mods for a P4 trial will follow....watch this space for my reports.