Centerline Track Cleaning Car Rollers

I cannot see why a specific brand of paint roller is required... paint rollers tend to be standardized sizes. I dont think I would use the "bargain" but any decent roller should do it.

Have you tried Amazon or something? If they give you a sureline part number you should be able to find a contractor pack of them online.

The issue that I can see is the center of the roller not being large enough to accommodate any weight. All that I saw at least are far to small, only about the size of a pencil roughly. I need to fit a bunch of glued together washers. 

Bought the car from a fellow Tracker. Got a good price and just from a few brief laps, the included roller was near black from all the crud. I'm really impressed by it. 

I looked just about everywhere I could think and never could find an exact replacement or even something "as good". They were either too big or too small, I could never cut them to the right size either. I finally broke down and ordered them from Centerline.

Same for me.........could never find ones that fit locally........reordered them from Centerline.

i also wash mine and reuse them.........dish detergent, warm water and an old toothbrush go a long way.

Peter

Gentleman,

I too have a centerline cleaner. Instead of ordering high priced rollers from centerline, I purchased rollers from Lowe's and cut them down. I made a fixture to hold a single edge razor blade and a expanding collet to hold the paint rollers.

Of course you will need access to a milling machine, a lathe, and a traveling wire EDM.

The paint rollers at Lowe's come in a three (3) pack for something like $1.79. They are  about 3" long hence the razor blade treatment. The offall I use by pressing them onto a piece of solid plastic rod. I purchased end caps from McMaster Carr and load the rollers with #4 and #6 mixed lead shot about 3/4 full.

Let me take some pictures of the contraceptions I made and try to post them for you.

It could be that it's not the size, but the material. 

Centerline tends to use one with very short fibers.  I have a track cleaner from R&L Lines [ http://www.rllines.com/ ] and their's is foam.  In the case of my R&L cleaner, Foam Pro seems to be the only one that makes the precise size and the correct foam type ('fine finisher') based on my looking around.  But I am convinced Home Depot and Lowe's stock very little in rollers and it probably is something I need to look for at a paint-only store.

When I made my own version of a track cleaner I made the car off center  by 1/4" so when the paint roller gets dirty I flip it over and have another clean surface on the paint roller so the roller gets used twice.

I buy the Sure-Line rollers from Lowes. I cut them with a utility knife.

Watson...

Thanks. I'll have to try Lowes. Home Depot carried Shurline products but not what I was looking for. Appreciate it. I'm taking it over to the Tracker layout this morning to clean the track!

Thanks all for the replies.