Dapol HO B808 Motorized Track Cleaner Car, Maintenance of Way This model needs to be hauled by a locomotive, as 'motorised' merely reflects the motor driving the cleaning heads and not the movement of the model.Replacement heads, pads and consumables are also available from our website should you need them.Please only use a 'plastic compatible' cleaner for filling the fluid reservior in the track cleaner. Dapol can not be held responsible for damage caused by other cleaning fluid and only recommend Dapol track cleaning fluid (Dapol Track Cleaning Fluid is not included with the model).The model is DCC ready
J**N
I am in love with this car
I am in love with this car. I have been doing HO scale model railroading for over 20 years and always did my tracks the long manual way, This car had my tracks cleaned until they sparkled and looked brand new in only a few minutes. Only thing I am wondering with this is if there are replacement pads to buy for it since I have yet to see any for it anywhere. If your looking to see this in action there are a few videos of it on youtube
F**R
Does not work as described.
Product vacuum cleaner works fairly well until it stops when a small particle of ballast jams in it. The rest of the options do not work at all. The cleaning and buffing pads jam over switches and derail. It did not seem to matter if the switch was by Atlas or PECO. It also appeared to overheat using the cleaning options. Seller did take the product back in time and a refund was given, but I was out my initial shipping costs. After discussions with seller they did pay for return shipping costs.
C**S
Just as everyone else has said, nice vacuum
There is really not much to say about this device. It works really well as a vacuum, a lot better than you would expect. But any time you try to use any of the other attachments (anything that creates resistance against the motor), it just overheats and quits working within SECONDS. Nice concept, bad design. Fix the motor from overheating, and the device would actual be an outstanding cleaning tool to have for a railroad hobbyist.
J**N
DOES NOT WORK
Pure junk. Dose not come close to working as advertised. Vacuum works ok, track cleaning fluid just flows freely from the fill chamber to all over the bottom of the device. Anything that requires a disk will not work. Disk spins for a little bit then stops. Never been so disappointed in a product. That's what I get for buying European junk.
R**E
Very good.
Very good.
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