Member Paul Smith is building a fantastic outdoor railroad and has explored the subject in great depth. Here is a copy of recent correspondence he had with Garden Railway's Mark Horovitz who thanked him and said he would use the letter in a future column:
HI Mark,
I enjoyed Kevin Strong's article on track cleaning in the October issue of GR. I had always used the Scotch-Brite pads on a drywall sander with a velcro attachment system. However, the plastic sander broke recently, so I wanted a more durable drywall sander.
The only metal sander that I could find locally didn't have the velcro attachment system, so I had to purchase a sander with clamps like the one shown in the picture in Kevin's article on page 16. The problem with that sander is that the head with the clamps is too long to work with the standard size Scotch-Brite pads which are readily available.
I found a similar product at a local hardware store designed to fit under the clamps of the metal drywall sander. It is made by Gator Finishing (www.gatorfinishing.com) and is called "synthetic steel wool" for polishing metal. It is item number 7320.
This product works just like the Scotch-Brite pad and does not contain metal like real steel wool. It has worked great for me this summer!
Paul Smith
Lincoln, Maine
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