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Cleaning Truck Wheels
Rosemary wants to hear readers thoughts on cleaning wheels:
“What do people suggest is the easiest/best method to clean the wheels? We have some postwar rolling stock that need cleaning. I’ve read that alcohol is one method. Can someone give some advice please?”
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I have tried many methods of cleaning rolling stock wheels, the best and fastest method I have found is to use a single sheet of paper towel, spray it with WD40. get it wet, lay it on track and push your car back and forth you will see the results, as your doing this lay a dry sheet of paper towel ahead of the wet one, after running on the wet push it on to the dry, and go back and forth, ala, clean wheels….If you use a section of your track to do this, dry it off good when you are done..A short section of track could be mounted on a seperate board for this job…I also clean engine wheels doing this bu running the front set on the towel, letting the rear set do the power work, I then switch ends, works great.