I have a Milwaukee Road wood sided cupola caboose by K-Line, and apparently the smoke unit has burned out. Is there a place to buy another smoke unit? Thanks!
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Jeff,
If I were you I would not worry about replacing the smoke unit. Many K Line cabooses have been ruined by the smoke unit causing the caboose to melt. K Line made many great looking cabooses, and I do not think Lionel has brought back these models.
Thanks,
Richard
The smoke unit will eventually melt the roof, that's why I take mine out. Learned that the hard way
I don't even turn mine on in my K-Line cabooses.
Did you use your K-Line caboose when using a command control system?
I had a Lionel lighted caboose short out under command control, and until I knew what was wrong I thought it was the PS-2 engine.
My advice is to turn off smoke units or lights in a caboose when using command control.
Lee Fritz
If you really need smoke in the caboose, I've replaced several of them with the MTH HO fan driven smoke unit. It doesn't get nearly as hot in operation, and you can tune it to the amount of smoke you like. It'll give you lots more smoke than the stock one, and it won't melt the sides of the caboose.
If you really need smoke in the caboose, I've replaced several of them with the MTH HO fan driven smoke unit. It doesn't get nearly as hot in operation, and you can tune it to the amount of smoke you like. It'll give you lots more smoke than the stock one, and it won't melt the sides of the caboose.
Perhaps you could make a tutorial of the process with part numbers and such so some of us can do the same on ours, please?
Jeff B
I had a K Line PRR Cabin Car whose roof melted while I was running in command control at our club layout (using Legacy).
I also had one K Line Cabin Car whose windows fell out, took it apart which was a task in itself.
My advice is to leave it alone and turn off the smoke unit forever.
JohnB
I have one of these Cabooses, I keep it turned off. Someday I will get around to modifying it so the roof does not melt (anymore).
This topic has been discussed off and on for over ten years here on the forum. Some have suggested increasing the value of the resister in the smoke unit or adding a resister between the pickup rollers and the smoke unit. The latter seems to be the preferred method.
I recently had to add a 25 ohm resister in series with the interior lighting in my K-Line heavy weight pass cars to run them on an 18V track.
Here is the easy step by step mod (with pictures) to reduce the voltage to the smoke unit. Caboose still smokes fine and no risk of melted roof.
Bob
If you really need smoke in the caboose, I've replaced several of them with the MTH HO fan driven smoke unit. It doesn't get nearly as hot in operation, and you can tune it to the amount of smoke you like. It'll give you lots more smoke than the stock one, and it won't melt the sides of the caboose.
Jeff,
If I were you I would not worry about replacing the smoke unit. Many K Line cabooses have been ruined by the smoke unit causing the caboose to melt. K Line made many great looking cabooses, and I do not think Lionel has brought back these models.
Thanks,
Richard
I have one of these Cabooses, I keep it turned off. Someday I will get around to modifying it so the roof does not melt (anymore).
This topic has been discussed off and on for over ten years here on the forum. Some have suggested increasing the value of the resister in the smoke unit or adding a resister between the pickup rollers and the smoke unit. The latter seems to be the preferred method.
I recently had to add a 25 ohm resister in series with the interior lighting in my K-Line heavy weight pass cars to run them on an 18V track.
The "Cliff Notes" version...
The MTH HO smoke unit, AA-1600000 is used for the conversion. I mount the smoke unit on a small piece of fiberglass and secure it to the base of the caboose. I extend the stack with a brass tube to the existing stack. A small adjustable AC to DC switching power supply from eBay provides the power. For the fan motor, I included four series diodes to drop the voltage to the fan motor, it likes to run around 2-3 volts. I've found the smoke unit works well in the 4-5 volt range from the power supply, hence the diodes to reduce the voltage to the fan motor.
It's important to mount the smoke unit directly under the existing stack so you can easily add fluid.
Either get a Lionel or Mth Smoke unit or just remove the smoke unit from the caboose and run it empty.
If you want smoke, removing the smoke unit probably isn't the best way to solve the issue.