Are there any smoke units available for HO on30 steam engines. If so are they difficult to install? ecn110
Seuthe is probably the best known & widely available. A good LHS will have a couple of units in stock. There are a number of different models - some made for specific locos - some for DIY installs. The one thing to remember is that they get HOT![}:)] If you put them too close to plastics or even wood/paper you could have a problem! I put a pair of #9’s in my Athern Challenger - they sometimes run sporadically, but the grandkids like them anyway![8D]
Not to mention after about an hour of operation your locomotive will stop running!..that smoke oil gets on everything including your trackage.
David
Amen to that! I stopped using smoke units for that very reason. I got tired of having to clean the track with a degreaing agent to get rid of the smoke oil, then having to clean it again to get rid of the degreaser.
This is another one of those questions that seems to come up at least every week, and the answer is always the same – forget about model train smoke. It’s oil, it doesn’t look good, and it smells bad. Smoke generators in models are heaters that boil the oil to make it smoke, and it doesn’t look realistic at all.
So I’m wondering, is the Lionel O guage smoke different? What kind of unit do those engines have, and is the smoke fluid the same as HO?
I’m just curious, because it seems that most O guage engines have smoke, and I was wondering if those modelers have the same problem…
If anyone brought one of those trains with a smoke unit to our huge MRR club it would be going 50mph out the window. They stink, oil lays on everything, and don’t look real at all. But on the other hand kids love them, and on a home layout with not much of anything it thrills them and makes them happy which it what it’s all about.