if you could be on tv
and have the myth busters test your layout what would you have them do
I think I would like to know how strong may grid layout would be I bet thay will have to park a truck on it to snap this baby
NICE…
Myth Busters??? I don’t need Myth Busters, I need Dust Busters!!!
I’d have them prove or disprove a certain type of track cleaning. Does MAAS or Mother’s Mag Polish work better than isopropyl alcohol? Will the cleaning last longer?
I’m very interested in the answer to that one myself… The ones who use the polish swear by it and the ones who don’t say it won’t work… I’m willing to give it a try and see for myself… I don’t think the mythbusters are going to want to come to my house and clean my track [:(]…
mabey see if a loco can pull the same scale amount of weight as the prototype.
if a gp38 can pull x amount of fully loaded (type of frieght car) , can the model gp38, unmodified, pull the same amount of weight if the scale frieght cars are exactly the right weight?
GEARHEAD426
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hello
hey take it from someone that has meesed up a few brass parts if you use alchol the brass will be bone clean and we know that brass needs to have some cover over it or rust so I say that the wax will protect it
thats easy now how do I get the truck in my computer er train room
[#ditto] I’ve been trying to think of an experiment to try the different types of track cleaning, but cannot come up with one that doesn’t require building about 12 identical loops or back & forths.
My friend tried that, His HO GP38 wieghed 3000lbs[:0]
NOOOO WAY, i like the mythbusters, but wouldnt want them to be around my things
one time they were testing some concrete truck myth, and decided, hey lets call in the fbi, shut down a major highway, load this truck to the brim with explosives and blow it up, why, who cares?
it was the COOLEST explosion i’ve ever seen, it like imploded, it completly blew the truck to smitheriens, it was awesome
GEARHEAD426
thats a great one somehow I feel the model will be busted
prr I seen that one I bet the cement was still stuck to the drum
lol
MYTHBUSTERS RULES!!! I still say the best was when they used the man-lift (cherry-picker) as a catapult. I have been thinking of modeling that, but not sure how to reset everything after the wheels break off.
I too, love to see them destroy the parts of whatever myth they are working on.
I would have them determine if metal wheels really do help to keep track cleaner than plastic wheels.
HD
Track Cleaning – going around one more time!
Here is a list of agents that I have tried over the past 20 years to clean Model railroad track. This was in a Club atmosphere as well as on my home layouts.
Remember, I tried them all!
Abrasive Materials that just cleaned the track:
Bright Boy, Lifelike Track block, Sand paper, Steel wool, Scotch Brite, Pencil Eraser, Ink Eraser, Emery Paper, Crocus Cloth, Sanding Sponge
Liquids that just cleaned the track:
Acetone [nasty], MEK [way too nasty], Alcohol, Gasoline [dangerous], Lacquer Thinner [just as dangerous], Methylene Chloride [Ambroid Pro Weld], Enamel Paint Reducer, Model Power Track Cleaner, Lifelike Track Cleaner, Any of the other model manufacturers track cleaners, Windex [didn’t work too well], Clorox, 409, CLR, Turpentine, Jim Beam, Dry Gas, Diesel Injector Cleaner, Hi Octane Gas Booster [nasty stuff], Pre Clean-O [wax & grease remover for painting car bodies], Ammonia, Segreams 7, Bleach White [tire cleaner], Windshield Washer Fluid, Resolve Carpet Cleaner.
Cleaners that left an OIL type coating on the track:
ATF, Orange Cleaner, GOO Gone, GooF Off, STP [worked for slot car wheels], WD40, CRC 5-56, CRC 2-26, LPS-1, LPS-2, LPS-3, Murphys Oil Soap, Wal Hair clipper Oil [worked about the best of all the oils], Tarnex [chemical agent], Rail Zip, Pine-Sol, Lestoil, Hydraulic Jack oil, Air tool oil, Sewing Machine Oil, Kerosene, Brake Fluid.
Cleaners that leave a SILICON coating on the track:
Rainex, Silicon Spray, Armor All
Materials that are abrasive to the track and/or leave an oily coating:
Brasso, Rubbing compound, any of the auto body heavy cleaner polishes, Chrome Cleaner [not too bad]
Lemon Pledge spray [too hard to control spray but is a wax but with little cleaning ability].
And then I finally went with regular old Silver Polish.
Does that give you any idea of
I’d like for them to prove that if you lick the rails with your tongue when the power is on, you will get shocked!..chuck
I’d like to see if they can prove that small steam in N scale can really be made to creep over dead frog turnouts. The manufacturers don’t seem to think so, or at least if they do, they haven’t bothered to do it yet!
I’d like them to prove if Homasote will really expand and contract as much as everyone says it will!
Which wood material has the least expansion/contraction ratio (length/width/thickness) - dimentional lumber - plywood - OSB
BOB H - Clarion, PA
I too was amazed at the compounds in the black crud oil dirt dust metal its like all the trains were tossed in a blender and spred on the rails
ok lets send them a letter
who wants to volunteer there layout to science
how can we get addem to put his toung on the 70 amp powerpack
K
Oh that shouldn’t be hard at all![:p]
And see if a DCC signal works on humans!
Actually I’d like to see if Myth Busters could dispell my wifes Myth of “You’ll Never fini***hat Layout”.
Then again I wouldn’t want to see their idea of finished, especially if it involves a “Dummy”[xx(]
Fergie
Well, I can tell you that when my wife pushes the right buttons, I chuff and whistle. [:-,]
-Crandell