Thread: Cleaning Scalextric Track

Try some very fine steel wool, what I used years and years ago

if its steel.....ron has a trick that works well.....

just soak it in a bucket of water with mollases.......it will eat away the rust......
it shouldnt affect anything else........i hope.....


check with ron.......i havent had a chance to try this method yet.......



i would have used steel wool......or brasso.......but that would mark the plastic either side of the tracks......

Thanks Tony, yes i have seen Rons website about the molasses and it could be the go. Might even try Steelo soap pads as they are fairly non abrassive. Just dont want to score the surface too much as it will just rust even quicker.

coat it with some of roothys favourite......


brush the tracks with lanotec to stop them from rusting again.......

Good thinking, will have to be pretty careful or it could make some corners interesting.

Now does anyone know where I can get a 1/32 Plastic Landrover kit.

use an eraser, try the pen end first then the pencil end, I used it for years & works wonders.

I agree with Twitchy. I have an eraser in my drawer in my electronics workshop.

Don't use steel wool or such as the steel fibre as it breaks down its a mongrel to get out and the magnets in the motors of the cars will pick it up. I used wet and dry to clean up my old track and it still looks quiet good.

If your setting up a perm track on a table the other thing you can do is apply copper tape over it the type used by stained glass window makers. Continuous line with amazing results.

This is a track I'm building right now and will use copper tape for power when finished.