Can you use a rotary tool with the soft rotary bru***o clean the wheels
Gee, that’s exactly what I use, though there may be a reason I don’t know of, not to use it. And[#welcome] to the forum! Thanks, John
For the non-freespinning wheels I use a Q-tip with GOO-Gone or alcohol.
Sure can. Protect the eyes. Also watch the magnatraction for small metal particles.
When I tried it the white soft cleaning wheel turned to black almost instantly. It didn’t take long to wonder if dirt was coming off the wheels onto the brush or vice versa! And I keep my equipment fairly clean so it wasn’t as though I was cleaning several years’ worth of crude off. I did put goo-gone, or maybe it was de-natured alcohol not sure, on the brush.
How do you guys do it? Is there some trick or secret?
- walt
I carve the black stuff off with an Xacto knife.
When I get post war pieces that haven’t been cleaned in years, I scrape off any caked on deposits with a flat screw driver blade. Then I swab the wheel down with 91% isopropil alchohol on a q-tip. All the crud comes right off.
Jim
You know, I never thought to check the wheels when one of my engines started acting ‘jerky’