When did you last clean your track? Maybe it’s been a while and you can’t remember (in which case, this might be a friendly reminder!)
Havent had much time for running’em, but I did run the cleaning pad over the track last month after redoing a section of track. I use an mild abrasive pad for cleaning, works better than the cleaning car which tends to derail all the time.
I find that if I run my cleaner car once a week I don’t have to hand clean.
when my engines start acting strange i run my cleaning car about once a year.
I CLEAN MY TRACK once a week ,plus run cleaner car around the track 2 times before i start runing engines, so it makes good contact. ben
If I dont run regularly, I have to clean certain parts of the track before I run. Near foilage. As Vic says, the cleaning car seems a bit light and doesnt clean it properly. Alright for a quick buff -up. Had to give it a good scrub this week due to the frog incident.
We clean every week.First the children do a track check,then the cleaner car runs for 10 minutes.
Last week my neighbour asked if I’d found the plant cuttings I asked for.He’d left them on the track where I was bound to find them.Red faced children.More cuttings being delivered.
No frogs yet Ian.I did have a cow problem last week.The new calves in the field are a little bit too interested in what goes round the bottom part of the layout.I tried to warn them off and ended up with the whole herd expecting something to eat[:O]
My wife said it was a classic moment when watched from a distance.
All she heard was “right.You lot can bugger off too!!”
The beauty of ss track is no regular cleaning. It is running fine this spring without having to clean. Last cleaning was last July, the day before an open house tour for the pond! over the last 3 years I’ve found I only have to slip the cleaning car around if i want to run soon after a driving rain has splashed sand particles up onto track & they dried there! Usually ensuing rain or wind cleans the track.
I bru***he leaves of the track after I have cut the hedge -or remove ‘objects’.
Other than that -I ignore it!!!
regards
ralph
I try to run once a week. Before running a quick check for leaves, and sticks then I run the track cleaning car for a few minutes.
I clean my track once at month and bevore i starting ,the scratchbuilt Caboose-Trackcleaning-Car runs for a few minutes.
Last couple months I noticed my trains running slower and slower no matter how much I cleaned track, then they all but stopped…took me a while to figure out it was the battery in my Basic Train Engineer controller that petered out, D’OH!
Since my LGB track cleaning loco has been sent back for repairs 6 weeks ago I now usually run my 3 USA geeps around for a while and that seems to do a good enough job . Soon I am going to pick up all the track and clean all the joints and replace them with rail clamps . I can’t wait to get my cleaning loco back . That thing really does a great job .
I should not even go here, but I clean the “track” everytime I run. Twigs, leaves, cat poop.
But I can’t remember the last time I cleaned the “rails”!!!
Is Marty an Englieacher also? I loved it! I could just hear my high school Englieacher saying that back in 195???
i wished i had never sold mine!
Hi all
That should be autum track clean.
I run opposite to every one as the summer is to hot for train running.
Autum spring train running winter heavy engineering summer retire inside for the cool.
regards John
I can’t remember the last time I cleaned track, sometime in the fall I think. I run track power and haven’t run the layout in a while. I ran my loco around just to see what would happen, it ran fine, so I figured if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
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I don’t know why you had to put spring into this debate it just annoys all Australians and most people from the southern hemisphere.
It is onkly 3 weeks to winter here and why would we bother about spring at this time.
Try to think a bit more other people in other parts of the world and abit more circumspectly in general please!
Regards
ian
Mine is track powered and actual cleaning is a once a year thing, in fact I did it about 2 weeks ago. I pick all the bits off before the trains run but I don’t have a problem with contact between the loco’s and the track.
Cheers,
Kim
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