bachrus wheel doctor

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone has used the Bachrus Wheel Doctor for cleaning rolling stock wheel sets, preferably HO, and if they found it useful and worth the quite high cost of $69 +S&H??

I tried doing a search through all the MR forums and got only one hit where someone said they used it without elaborating at all, and that was it.

Appreciate your comments. Thank you.

Ken

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Link to this product?

I’m interested also.

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http://www.bachrus.com/wheeldoctor.php

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Boy that was not HO scale! [:D]

My self, I use 2 small sections of paper towel. 1 I use Alcohol on and then about 6 inch (depending on the engine) away and dry one. I just run the train across the paper towel a few times with the engine pulling the train. First time I did it with the rolling stock being 4 year old and never cleaning the wheels I got a lot of gunk off. After that not as much, I clean about the trains wheels about ever 6 months now.

Sure is cheaper!

By the way, what are you trying to accomplish? Keeping the track cleaner?

Cuda Ken

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Like Ken, this is my way too:

This works for engine and for cars.

Wolfgang

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Thank you for the comments on using a paper towel. I have done it that way for cleaning loco wheels, but found it a little messy and slow for caked on crud on rolling stock wheel sets. Perhaps I’m not doing it correctly? That’s certainly possible.

Anyways, I was really interested in if anyone had used the Bachrus product before as maybe, just maybe, it may be a useful one. The video I saw certainly makes it look easy to use. I thought it a bit pricey though for its simple construction and maybe that’s also why no one has yet responded that they have actually purchased and used it.

Ken

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HI,

check out this post:

http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/171971/1888899.aspx#1888899

Hope it helps

Frank

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Thanks, Frank. But not what I’m looking for. But, WOW, and I thought $70+ was expensive, this product must have some gold in it for crying out loud!

Ken

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Ken it worked pretty well for me. I get the paper towel section with the cleaner soaked, the paper towel is about 4 inch long. Same with the dry one and just start running the train through it. I am us a engine to pull say 30 cars at a time, not cleaning each piece separately. First time I kept running the train and replacing the paper towel till no crud was left on the towel. Think it took bout 5 times, after that they looked pretty clean.

On wheels you have a lot of crud on, scrap it off.

Cuda Ken