No Ox Id "A" Special

[fhmac]

This is a Question about Sanchem No Ox Id "A" Special grease electrical contact as found here:https://www.sanchem.com/electrical-contact-lubricant.html
Does anyone on board the Railwire have a means to liquefy Sanchem No Ox Id "A" Special grease? Wouldn't a liquefied form allow better and easier track cleaning?

[Steveruger45]

This is a Question about Sanchem No Ox Id "A" Special grease electrical contact as found here:https://www.sanchem.com/electrical-contact-lubricant.html
Does anyone on board the Railwire have a means to liquefy Sanchem No Ox Id "A" Special grease? Wouldn't a liquefied form allow better and easier track cleaning?

Hello Frank,
Merry Christmas.
I use this stuff about once a year to 18 months to control humidity exaggerated track oxidation on my layout track which is in an unairconditioned garage down here in South East Texas, after cleaning the track.
It is not really a track cleaner but it does a good job as an oxide inhibitor on cleaned track.
I smear it on clean track, very sparingly, Leave it on a couple of days to do its thing and then wipe off the excess.
You could get a liquid version of this stuff decades ago as I recall but I’m not sure if the liquid version is available anymore.

[fhmac]

Thank you Steve. And yes I also remember the No Ox in a bottled liquid form. That liquid form was easy to use in comparison to the "tube grease" form commonly available.  I was hoping that some knowledgeable
railwire guru might have a formula laying about that he could share with us.

[CRL]

For those of you needing a reference point... Southeast Texas = Sauna w/steam & mosquitoes

...plus “love bugs” in season.

[Steveruger45]

Haha, yes so true, but right now I’m freezing my nuggets off, it’s way down to 48 F.   Brrrrrrrrrr.

[CRL]

I heard dat... supposed to drop to 43 tonight here in San Antonio.

[fhmac]

We are 15 here in Buffalo NY. 

[peteski]

We are 15 here in Buffalo NY.

And balmy 14 degrees in Massachusetts.  Good night for a brisk walk! 

[Chris333]

Nice night for an evening. Or thread drift, whatever.

[rrjim1]

I use Caig DeoxIT D100L its 1000 time better than No-Ox, and works on all electrical connections and contacts.

[NtheBasement]

Yeah, its not a track cleaner.  I followed the instructions in the original post here, liquid would probably make it harder to use a minimal amount: https://www.nscale.net/forums/showthread.php?18676-Track-cleaning-Linn-Westcott-and-No-Ox

Did this a year ago, somewhat of a pita but it was worth it; I haven't had to clean track or wheels since.  I did find out that if you haven't run on a section of track in 6 months the engine stutters until you traverse it once or twice.  You also lose some tractive ability due to the lubrication.

Can't recommend this highly enough, it made a huge difference for me.  I have to run engines at crawl speed at my layout's flood loader and prior to this treatment I was pretty much wiping the rail and cleaning the engine wheels with isopropyl every run to keep it from stalling somewhere.

[peteski]

This evolved into a track cleaning type of a thread - like the one we were actively discussing just few days ago.
Which is the best?  That seems to be up to each individual.  We all swear by our chosen "special track cleaner conductivity-enhancer".  It is interesting to see what each of us thinks is the best.

Here is the other still-active track cleaning thread (I like provide links to similar subject threads). Just crazy me. 
https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=48467.0

[signalmaintainer]

If you follow the instructions here, it works wonders.
https://www.nscale.net/forums/showthread.php?18676-Track-cleaning-Linn-Westcott-and-No-Ox

Also, start cleaning locomotive wheels with white spirits, rather than isopropyl alcohol; the latter just attracts black gunk.

[Rossford Yard]

Not that hard to apply the cream stuff. I'm in the silver polish mode of thinking (Maas) and use some 1 x 2 blocks, cut down, wrap blue jean material around it, smear that on, and then run it over the tracks.  Every so often, a bit of the polish hits the ties and is hard to get off, but not that often.

Will try white spirits on wheels.  They do seem to blacken up real quickly and I have an indoor layout, granted, just one insulated wall from both the no AC attic and outdoor balcony.