IronBeltKen
Lazy Daydreamer
I recently finished a 3-month project of airbrush weathering all of my active freight cars; now it appears I'm facing an equally daunting task: de-gunking their wheels. I've always been proactive about cleaning my track and locomotive wheels; but I'm embarrassed to admit, the need for cleaning my rolling stock wheels never really made it onto my radar screen.
The time it takes me to get all eight wheels clean on a single freight car averages ~20 minutes. Multiply that number by 200 and you're looking at 6 weeks' worth of effort! What I'm hoping is that somebody here can clue me into a less-time-consuming way to clean rolling stock wheels, than pressing a solvent-soaked Q-tip against the wheel tread while turning the other wheel on the axle.
BTW I've already tried a few google searches on this topic, but I always seem to get a million hits hits for cleaning locomotive wheels or cleaning track - hardly anything on rolling stock wheels. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
The time it takes me to get all eight wheels clean on a single freight car averages ~20 minutes. Multiply that number by 200 and you're looking at 6 weeks' worth of effort! What I'm hoping is that somebody here can clue me into a less-time-consuming way to clean rolling stock wheels, than pressing a solvent-soaked Q-tip against the wheel tread while turning the other wheel on the axle.
BTW I've already tried a few google searches on this topic, but I always seem to get a million hits hits for cleaning locomotive wheels or cleaning track - hardly anything on rolling stock wheels. Any help will be greatly appreciated.