Flails or Brush?
Bingham Rail have pioneered the use of fabric flails to provide agitation to a train surface, when European competitors have promoted brush systems, possibly due to their expansion into train cleaning from a background of car wash manufacturing. Surface agitation is necessary to remove soil, the option to use flails or brush has to be considered, so what are the differences?
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Flails
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- Flail materials can range from Felt to Braided Polypropylene. Both are soft to the touch, and if they snag never develop a sharp edge that can score paint
- Flails are able to hold more chemical cleaner which also provides more lubrication at the painted surface
- Flails have a greater surface area contact that laps gently on the surface cleaning more effectively and prolonging paint gloss
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Brushes
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- Brushes are made from Polypropylene 3mm. round bar. At this size they are flexible and able to get into crevices and corners with greater ease than a flail
- By nature they cannot hold liquid so rely on the surface liquid to provide cleaning and lubrication
- Natural deterioration of the brush results in sharp strands that noticeably scratch paintwork. Scientific tests have proved that within two hours of Brush action, train paint has lost half of its gloss
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