Do you clean your tracks/wheels?

Muscleflex · Post by **Muscleflex** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 1:16 pm

I just want to know - when you guys play outdoors: mud, gravel, sand... do you clean your tracks? wheels? underside of the hull?
If so - how do you clean your tracks? Do you take them off and wash them?

Is water ok on the track pins? ie the pins won't rust?

jackalope · Post by **jackalope** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 3:58 pm

I take my tanks in mud and water all the time and wash them afterwards. Yes I pull the tracks and sometimes I even have to pull idler wheels to get everything out. I haven't had any problems with any rust on anything mostly because I don't think any of the metal on our tanks is steel or could rust. My King Tiger of which has been in water quite often still runs as good as the day I built it.

Muscleflex · Post by **Muscleflex** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 4:04 pm

Thanks! Does water get inside the hull?

jackalope · Post by **jackalope** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:16 pm

Muscleflex wrote:Thanks! Does water get inside the hull?

YES. And you MUST be careful! All my electronics are in a tub that is sealed except at the top, water has to fill the whole hull to up past the middle of my tanks before I'm in trouble. I'd like to seal them 100% but I'm not sure the IBU2 would like no air.

jackalope · Post by **jackalope** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:19 pm

Kiaser wrote:Depends muscles if it is dust I hit with compressed air or if your dirty like jackalope his option .

I think the only trouble I have is that darn dogs hair it gets in everything do not start with cats hair

I don't worry about dust and a little dirt I'm talking about serious mud and slime.

I have 4 Siberian Huskies and 6 cats and if I don't have a fur problem, how can anyone?

Ad Lav · Post by **Ad Lav** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 6:47 pm

Stick it in the kitchen sink on something that raises the tracks enough to run it without moving.

Add some soapy water to the height of the road wheels and drive it forwards/backwards.

Dirt will fall off and it'll smell nice

DOG · Post by **DOG** » Mon Oct 05, 2015 7:23 pm

normally I don't clean mine as i think they look good with real mud but on sunday I ran over dog poo not nice

wish people would pick it up. I do when I'm out with my dogs

jtracks · Post by **jtracks** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 2:15 pm

I look for things caught up in the tracks and road wheels. I do some driving on landscape bark, tracks and especially idlers don't like it.

Arnie_DK · Post by **Arnie_DK** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:37 pm

Just tried Ad Lav's sugestion and added a toothbrush to the tracks. Works really well

Ad Lav · Post by **Ad Lav** » Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:58 pm

Yay! I can be useful lol

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