Hi folks,

after "swiffering" the dust off my track this afternoon (works really fine!) as usual I was too lazy to scrape the rails with my "rubber block" (you all know these thingies available at the model railroad suppliers?), so I made up my mind about a simple track cleaning car.

And here is what I ended up with after 20 minutes:

I cut off a piece of that "cleaning block", made 2 hooks from a thin aluminium sheet (again one of those obsolete 3.5" floppy was sacrificed for this purpose), CA-superglued these hooks to the rubber so they fit into the "cow-bar" of a TYCO Hummer. Then I glued 2 tiny neo mags (found inside a slaughtered CD-ROM drive - BTW: you find neat little things inside a lot of PC stuff like streamer tape drives, hard disks etc.!) to the rubber to give an appropriate downforce.

Works really great! Only a couple of laps and the track rails are shiny again! :thumbsup:

Here´s the pics:

http://www.aus-dem-rahmen-gefallen.de/slotcars/ch_track_cleaner_01.jpg

http://www.aus-dem-rahmen-gefallen.de/slotcars/ch_track_cleaner_02.jpg

http://www.aus-dem-rahmen-gefallen.de/slotcars/ch_track_cleaner_03.jpg

Greetings from Germany,

Claus

Heh :) I was cleaning my rails on my routed test track over the weekend and used a similar trick ... nice Hummer BTW ...

Excellent idea! :thumbsup:

So what kind of lap times are ya turning? :devil: :D

Claus,

O.K. this is just plain, messing around with tiny stuff to make a track rail cleaner, Cool! :cool:

Oooooh and my Digital Sony Mavica uses those so called obsolete Floppy Disc. The Wife bought me a new camera recently but, figured that we had our Dell fitted to take Floppys so, still have not changed over yet. :)

Could never cut up a Floppy... :cry: How could you? lol :lol:

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g282/bobhch/aclaus1.jpg

Bob...zilla

Great track cleaner, Claus!


Bob, that tank of a camera come with jack-stands, back support and a ceiling hook? :D

Scavenger hunts turn up all kinds of goodies we can use. nd

Great track cleaner.

nice track cleaner... now you need to add a trailer with a wipe on the underside so it can pick up what the cleaner leaves behined, like an Oscar. I saw a Tyco train turned into a great cleaner. the first car had the stones and the second car had the wiper

Great setup, and it works too. Can't beat that. Now I need to find one of those Hummers. :) rr

Hi folks,

thanks for all your encouraging comments! VJ´s input finally forced me to build some kind of "Swiffer sled" for my Hummer:

Piled 3 sheets of balsa wood with a recessed mag (the one in the pic proofed to be far too strong, now there are 2 tiny neos like these seen on the rear of my "sanding block" above!):

http://www.aus-dem-rahmen-gefallen.de/slotcars/ch_track_cleaner_06.jpg

http://www.aus-dem-rahmen-gefallen.de/slotcars/ch_track_cleaner_08.jpg

http://www.aus-dem-rahmen-gefallen.de/slotcars/ch_track_cleaner_10.jpg

And that´s what the Swiffer cloth looks like after only one lap around my track (which I thought I had thoroughly wiped down only 2 days before!):

http://www.aus-dem-rahmen-gefallen.de/slotcars/ch_track_cleaner_09.jpg

Happy track cleaning! :hat:

Greetings from Germany,

Claus

http://www.aus-dem-rahmen-gefallen.de/slotcars/ch_track_cleaner_10.jpg


Outstanding! :thumbsup:

Diggen'it Claus!

:) Way Kool Claus....that is sooooooooooooooo freakin" Cool. :)

Bob...zilla

you rock Claus!

This is so cool!

Now you just need to make a Zamboni body for that chassis and you'd be good to roll! But these are great ideas that I need to work on myself.