Following the several ballasting and weathering sessions, the tracks were in need for some cleaning. I used the Mabar cleaning wagon with the vacuum, the pad and the Mabar cleaning liquid for the pad. I only did the 2 main tracks for now.
It's the first time I used the pad and the liquid. It seems to work somewhat well. And here's what the vacuum collected:
Following the previous post on cleaning tracks, I tried today to run the Mabar cleaning wagon with the "sanding" disk and it seems that it might be just too rough.
See below for those striations:
I purchased a cleaning wagon from Mabar a couple of years ago and can finally put it to use.
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| Mabar 81802-B |
The instructions are available here.
The manual is clear enough and the process straight forward. The roof is held by two rather powerful magnets. The body can be spread to release it from the chassis. A 21-pin decoder is installed; I took a ESU LokPilot V4.0 ref 54615. I might get a cheaper decoder, because no functions are required. Adjusting the speed control on that decoder makes the motor on the cleaning wagon go faster; the same motor is used for the polishing and for the vacuum.
I made a cleaning consist with the "passive" Roco cleaner. It went around the layout without much trouble.
