Best track cleaning car in HO scale

[jacon12]

Thanks, that’s what I wanted to know.

Jarrell

jacon12:

How difficult is it to ‘fine tune’ the CMX car for the right flow?

Jarrell

The control knob is right in the middle of the top of the car, if you look at Wolfgang’s picture of his nicely-painted model. I usually open mine about a third of a turn or so, but it’s easy to adjust at any point. It’s not terribly critical. If you see excess liquid left in the frog after the car passes over a turnout, you’ve got too much flow. If you feel the pad and it’s dry, you don’t have enough. I typically run it for half an hour or so, making multiple passes, before I run out of fluid.

Some people prefer to use isopropyl alcohol. It’s OK, but doesn’t clean quite as well. I’ve also noticed that lacquer thinner is a better lubricant. These cars are heavy to give good downward pressure on the cleaning pad. That also produces a lot of friction, though, and lacquer thinner makes it easier to push. Incidentally, that’s how I usually know I’m out of fluid - the pad runs dry and the subway cars can’t push it any more.

I need both of my powered subway units MU’d together to push this thing around.

[last_mountain_easter]

[quote user=“jacon12”]

How difficult is it to ‘fine tune’ the CMX car for the right flow?

Jarrell

[:-^]

It is not hard at all Jarrell. With the car sitting on the tracks, you can see under it well enough to adjust the flow to about 1 drop every 4 seconds after you have the pad wet to start. So if you want it a little wetter cut back the time a second or two or visa versa.

CMX are a great investment. No I do not have shares in CMX.

Johnboy out…

[strider]

Once you have the flow right, use a sharpie and mark the location on both the flow knob and the tank so the next time you don’t have to adjust it just match the marks.