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Track Cleaner; How to keep 'em clean
Topic Started: Apr 14 2015, 08:40 PM (576 Views)
RichD

I have never seen that AFX product, if I was still working I could get some analyzed.
How you clean your track would depend on what it is made of and what you are trying to remove. If the track is simply dusty I use special dusting cloths that my local hardware store carries. Microfiber cloths work nearly as well. I have a dehumidifier in my basement that keeps the humidity down, so rusted rails are not a problem. For special occasions I polish the rails with fingernail buffing blocks from a beauty product supply store. From time to time I strip the track down, my track is a MaxTrax and that is made of Sintra, which is expanded PVC. Regular plastic track is made of ABS, a type of styrene. I strip my track with naphtha (lighter fluid), but that does not play so well with ABS. If you have regular plastic track and you want to remove grease, oil and rubber dust you could use a good spray surface cleaner, I do not like to use any water based cleaner on my track however. As long as you don't drench the track with the stuff and you wipe it down right away you would not be likely to have corrosion problems. Some people like to use alcohol to strip their track.
If your track has a great deal of dust on it you could vacuum it before you wipe it down. A regular vacuum cleaner does not have a HEPA filter, so the really fine dust particles will go right through it and eventually end up back on the track. A vacuum cleaner might not do a great job of getting dust out of the slots.
At major events, such as the Fray, the tracks are cleaned with WD-40. The correct procedure is to spray it on a rag and wipe the track down with that followed by a second pass with a clean rag. Besides cleaning the track surface the WD-40 will condition the rails. I have raced on a track that was treated using that method and it was perfect.
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Great advice! Thanks everyone. Call me old fashioned. But I miss my "Dust Rust Must Go". I still have a half bottle. But I'll just keep it for the novelty of it. Used to buy it at the local hobby shop in Bridgeport CT or Caldors when I was a kid.
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