Hello all. anyone have any sujestions on cleaning trains both dicast & plastic.
I have jumped into the repair biusness, that my dad has been doing for years (approximently 45+ years) & i am starting or have been working with him on repairs. We have been doing the repair work for our one & only hobby shop in our area. The parts cleaner we use at my dads leavs a odor ion the trains( goes away after a few days) but i am doing repair out of my home & my better half dose not want me to clean them in the house. I am looking for something to clean with that is safe for all type of plastic & that is odor free that will work in a standard parts washer. I do the repair down in the basement of our home.
It would seen that model train repair is becomming a lost art as with model train or hobby shops with model trains in them. As i mentioned our local store is about 15-20 min drive from us the next one is about a hour away. While i do appreciate thier work comming our way, it seems odd that a hobby shop that takes in repair work would have more in the way of trains than what this one has. You could fit all of the train related items in a 16’x16’ room.
I think alot of persons are forgetting that even in this day & age there are a lot of peaple out there who are not the tech curu’s & don’t like shopping from a screen in front of them or haveing a mother board in a train to make it run.
My dad always tells peaple that the old days of model trains or going out just as steam has, with just a few hanging on. If it don’t involve a computer or or can do some high tech function they do not want anything to do with them.
I for one love my old trains, I can fix them without having to send a printer board out before i can get a new one. The same can be said for the parts makers of the model train world. There are some really great producers out there, unfortunatly just like my dad & me who do the repair, they to are a dying breed as the source of thier parts is getting fewer & fewer.