Wheel cleaning under DC
- Place loco upside down in Peco cradle
- Attach flyleads to the back of a controller
- Hold leads against wheels
- Hold fibre pen on each wheel in turn
- Wait for a few moments and shiny metal is revealed
- Take loco away and repeat
Wheel cleaning under DCC
- Place loco upside down in Peco cradle
- Realise you can't attach flyleads to the back of the controller
- Try to find a spot where you can clip them to the track and not destroy some detail
- Work out which number loco you are cleaning
- Dial up the number on the keypad
- Turn up controller
- Realise you've dialed up the wrong number
- Dial up the correct number
- Hold leads against wheels
- Hold fibre pen on each wheel in turn
- Wait for a few moments and shiny metal is revealed
- Take loco away
- Place next loco in cradle
- Realise you can't remember the number
- Decide that the wheels aren't that dirty anyway