How To Clean HO Scale Locomotive Wheels

[@samp7003]

I cleaned my track really good but my engine is stalling and stalling. I'm going to try this today. Those are beautiful engines you have.

[@JohnsRailroad]

This seems to work good for me. Hope you have good luck like I did. Thanks.

[@raptors_cool]

Recently airbrushed my switcher with acrylic paint, had to clean the trucks so it could run smoothly, this works so well in fact, that it takes only a minute to clean an engine

[@JohnsRailroad]

Glad it helped. Thanks

[@BKCC420]

Thank you for this short video.

[@JohnsRailroad]

Glad you liked it! The process works for me.

[@AlexNunes-z6v]

Thank you works for me too.Also with a Qtip i rub alcohol on tracks And trains, take it away, I do it. ether way..Do you not have any problems dose it make more cleaning work

[@JohnsRailroad]

Excellent! Thanks

[@davestrains6816]

Great tip, thanks for sharing. Dave

[@JohnsRailroad]

No problem 👍

[@littlewolf947]

So does it really matter on which alcohol to use..the 70 or 90 percent?

[@JohnsRailroad]

I never really looked at that. I just looked at mine and I have 70. I know that works.

[@AlexNunes-z6v]

idk I think 90/91 is higher I guess that means it does a better job than 71%.I'm just guessing 🤔 I don't know

[@littlewolf947]

@@AlexNunes-z6v I went ahead and used 90 percent..90 percent has less water in it than 70.

[@rodeisenbeisz6556]

Thanks!

[@JohnsRailroad]

No problem!

[@digitalsoldierxp9027]

Damn I could of done this the whole time ?instead of buying new more tracks

[@JohnsRailroad]

Thats what I always did was take the track apart reconnect or replace it. I saw this years ago a train flea market. A guy was doing it to show his engines worked. Been doing it ever since. 10 years or so. Its not a cure all but it really worked for me.

[@TimsBitsnPieces]

This is a great idea but it is no use for unpowered wheels...

[@JohnsRailroad]

You are right. I do not ever clean the non powered engines wheels. I only do it to improved performance when the powered units start to stop and start from not having a good connection to the track. Thanks for the input.

[@TimsBitsnPieces]

But the problem is.. that some of the locos have pickups on the non-powered wheels, like in the tenders of steam locos for a typical example.. they need to be clean to pick up the power for the loco to run......