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bad day Rich and 765 update 12-19

$oo Line$oo LineOGR Forum Member

well I was having a grand day running trains and all of a sudden I smell hot electrical smell never a good thing in our hobby.


I tried using cab-2 and turn smoke unit off seeing inside the stack was a bright orange glow and it was having no part of off so killed power.


it smoked for 3 minutes so sorry Rich your happy voice has been silenced for me until all is repaired.


I sent an inquiry to lionel as we have no service stations here locally so off to the lionel techs for repair this makes 3 smoke unit failures in 3 months time but only one that is a lionel brand. my wife not happy as she loves steam engines more than diesels she said it was jealous as I had just purchased a new at&sf northern 3751 and so it felt betrayed ha!


oh well I have others to run maybe I can sneak the  lionel Evo onto that loop hmmmmm.


$oo

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$oo Line$oo LineOGR Forum Member
Hey scrapy sure you can help run the 765!
My wife bought some coke ovens told her the old smoke unit would make for a good glowing oven effect.

I have to ask you when the engine derailed what was your first thought?

Most times I think work on layout and something breaks around the house so this morning was thinking about working on layout and huh 2 engines break themselves ironic it did it to itself.

$oo
$oo Line$oo LineOGR Forum Member

well I got brave and disassembled the engine to see what happened to the smoke unit wow!!

 

the back half of the circuit board looks okay but the front half is all black from heat and the bowl assembly where the heating elements and the wick are is a total loss it got so hot it bubbled the metal front and right corner and on both ends and on top right I can see where it now has a bulge and so am sure the seal for the fan to smoke chamber is a mute point.

 

I had been emailing my parts supplier and repair service center and he told me the regulator is what went out and so it allows full 18 volts from the track to the smoke unit and that is what caused the trouble.  to bad I had no wieners and a stick handy at the time!

 

and if you ever decide to tear into yours don't be faint of heart as you have to remove screws holding main boards to a metal bracket and then you can access the 2 smoke unit screws holding the bracket to the frame and then 2 don't blink flea sized screws holding smoke unit to that bracket.

 

I already decided something goes poof on my S-3 Milwaukee road engine the Lionel techs can do it well worth the 60.00 labor fee.

 

 

$oo

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