12-16-2013, 10:52 PM
I've run into a tough problem.
One of my locomotives (an atlas ALP44) cannot travel a single lap around the club's layout without accumulating a significant amount of grime and gunk. I find myself cleaning the wheels every two laps, and it barely gets though those laps without loosing power due to grime.
No other locomotives are having this problem, just my ALP44. It is very frustrating, as this ALP44 was one of my more reliable locomotives. I've had this locomotive for years and its never done this before!
I first ran the wheels on a paper towel dampened with Goo Gone. I did this twice, and then i removed the wheel sets and cleaned them by hand with a bright boy, and still, it hardly makes it around. I dried the wheels on a paper towel prior to running on the mainline. One wheelset had Bullfrog snot on it, but I removed it.
Any advice for very thoroughly cleaning the wheels? Is there maybe something I'm doing wrong?
One of my locomotives (an atlas ALP44) cannot travel a single lap around the club's layout without accumulating a significant amount of grime and gunk. I find myself cleaning the wheels every two laps, and it barely gets though those laps without loosing power due to grime.
No other locomotives are having this problem, just my ALP44. It is very frustrating, as this ALP44 was one of my more reliable locomotives. I've had this locomotive for years and its never done this before!
I first ran the wheels on a paper towel dampened with Goo Gone. I did this twice, and then i removed the wheel sets and cleaned them by hand with a bright boy, and still, it hardly makes it around. I dried the wheels on a paper towel prior to running on the mainline. One wheelset had Bullfrog snot on it, but I removed it.
Any advice for very thoroughly cleaning the wheels? Is there maybe something I'm doing wrong?
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