https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/05/smoker-stopped-working-on-santa-fe-freight-train.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=smoker-stopped-working-on-santa-fe-freight-train Model railroads and model trains Wed, 02 Jul 2014 19:34:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/05/smoker-stopped-working-on-santa-fe-freight-train.html#comment-5868 Wed, 02 Jul 2014 19:34:11 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=3173#comment-5868 I had an old DC Steam engine with a smoker, which I hadn’t used for several years while occupied with other things in High school. In my case a few drops of smoke fluid was added directly to the smoke stack which basically contained a tiny brass cup-shaped vessel which heated up to produce the smoke. After several years of disuse the smoker wasn’t working anymore. I had even disassembled the engine to see if there was a bad solder point or something, but in the end I simply took a sewing needle and VERY carefully scraped out the residue in the brass vessel. After that it started working and I ran a couple of doses of smoke through it to make sure it was good and cleaned out.

]]> https://blog.model-train-help.com/2014/05/smoker-stopped-working-on-santa-fe-freight-train.html#comment-5862 Wed, 02 Jul 2014 01:29:07 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=3173#comment-5862 Smoke units get clogged up. Turn tranformer up 1/2 to 3/4. Hold locomotive over track. make contact with wheels to track holding up loco. The motor will run fast and heat up smoke unit. This will burn out old smoke oil. Then run on track with fresh oil. It will smoke loke new unit.
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