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Repairing Lionel’s smoke units
Well written article with plenty of details.
Very complete article, but what I need is specific to an article published some years age in CTT reguarding factory mis-wiring of smoke units with small blower motors. My Century Club Berkshire never did produce smoke that “puffed” - only smoke that sort of found it’s own way out of the smoke stack. I need to find that article to hopefully solve this problem.
Exactly the information that I needed. Thanks
Well written article with clear supportive pictures.
I used this article to convert a 671 and a 2025 to fluid and I’m pleased with the results. Much better smoke output than with pellets. Great instructions and illustrations.
Very Good…
I have been repairing trains since early 70s. I have rewound probably close to 1000 smoke units as per original. Have always told customers to not use pills. They are absolutly not necessary. Just because it is a pill type unit does not mean you have to use a pill in it. Just put very few drops of any liquid smoke in and it will smoke. Cheap smoke fluid is lamp oil from the Dollar store. I have never used a pill in any of my personal locomotives and all are original Lionel smoke units because of the resolidification problem with the pills.
Just what I was looking for. I’ll give it a try on a test locomotive and see how it works. Thanks!