poliss Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Made this track cleaner last week after I discovered a piece of harboard hiding behind all my tool boxes. 😆 http://thecentralstation.myfreeforum.org/sutra29990.php#29990 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pidder Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Presumably it does impart some slight drag. Do you just run it on it's own behind a suitable engine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 The drag isn't noticable. Some people add weights, which might increase drag, but the author of Easy Model Railroad Wiring, Andy Sperandeo, doesn't think adding weights is necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huwsie Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Aren't the simplest ideas nearly always the best! - I'm going to give that a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 Invented in the 1940s by a chap called John Allen. 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 @HuwsieYou back on the island?Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 I would certainly like to use some form of Automatic Track cleaner but I cannot understand how they can be useful for any reasonable length of track. Â The reason I say that is because I currently use IPA on a cotton bud and after only a few metres it is filthy and ready for turning and then replacing. Â Surely the Hardboard gets quite dirty and then would start to re-deposit the dirt onto the track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 I'll be testing it thoroughly. It's been in use for around 65 years and people say it works well.Didn't cost me anything anyway. 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanQ4 Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Where have you been pollis I posted an almost identical idea last october. See the link.What is it they say about two good minds thinking alike?Mine is actually weighted with a piece of steel so that the hardboard can be screwed to it for easy replacement.I didn't know John Allen had already invented it, here I was thinking I was so clever, ah well never mind.https://www.hornby.com/uk-en/forum/r296-hornby-track-cleaning-wagon/?p=1/#post-141644 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishmanoz Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Poliss, on 20th June 2013, you posted a link to the making of a weighted version of these at http://www.willegal.net/railroad/rr-tc.htm And the use of hardboard has been mentioned many times over the last 4 years at least for this purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poliss Posted April 17, 2016 Author Share Posted April 17, 2016 Missed your post Norman. Must have been the same time as my Internet was down. 😬Yes I certainly did Fishy, but that was made by someone else. This one is my very own. Made because I came upon a piece of hardboard. 😆 I'm trying it without weights as per the section in my book which says weights make them less efficient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huwsie Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 @HuwsieYou back on the island?RobIn and back out.. was only there long enough to open mail, insure the car, pay the bills... usual stuff. I'm in Tucson AZ now. Back to Wales from here, then back to CY from Wales, but no date set yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonvale Posted April 17, 2016 Share Posted April 17, 2016 Presumably it does impart some slight drag. Do you just run it on it's own behind a suitable engine?Better to push than pull.Personally I run 2 at a time, 1 pushed 1 pulled, no additional weight.You can extend the life of the pad by cleaning it. I use IPA and a toothbrush (the wife's not mine). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted April 18, 2016 Share Posted April 18, 2016 ... toothbrush (the wife's not mine) ...ha ha, excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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