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Just got a Fedex delivery from CharlesRo.  They hadn't forgotten my pre-order from ~5 years ago!

Guess I will have to read the instructions and setup later.  Forgot to install the lamp for the picture, I do have it.

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Dan

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2016-03-31 Lionel Smoke Fluid Loader_01
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Super O Bob posted:

Cool-

I forgot all about those.   Hope they do them in various railroad logos.  I will wait for a Union Pacific one...

I would not hold your breath on various railroad names. It's my assumption based on conversations with a few folks in the loop that this is going to be it for a long time on the smoke fluid loader. Take a look at what's cataloged and the recently announced additions and select from that... 

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It appears to be a very large tank. I put about 10 full eyedroppers in and had to push the output pipe down in further before it would work.  Will have to have Greg pick me up a LARGE bottle of Lionel premium smoke fluid before our next meet.  

It will also blow bubbles for a couple of pumps, sometimes, when you start filling an engine.

No, it does not blow down the stack for you.  You may still need to do it manually.

Dan 

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You park the engine in front of the shed and then adjust the position of the nozzle using the red throttle knob on the remote. The movement is finely adjusted so you can line it up easily.

Another fun note of discovery - if you put the fluid loader into program mode and hold down the brake button, you can empty the entire tank very quickly. Helps if you want to pack it up or change fluid or whatever. Good foresight by Lionel imo.

I was able to pour almost an entire bottle of premium fluid into mine. So capacity-wise I don't foresee having to refill the tank often.

Dennis - The engine is a Lionel Michigan Central - LEGACY - 2-8-4 Berkshire; 6-11392.  It is from the K-Line tooling, an early/smaller Berkshire and is scale sized.  Catalog: Lionel 2013 Signature Edition

Yes, you stop the engine perpendicular to the point where the fluid pipe come out of the building.  You can be off a little. 

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Dominic Mazoch posted:

Now, in real life, If one would put fluid down the stack, you would really mess up a steamer.  One might cause a steam explosion!  Maybe our steam engine pros can comment.

I suspect the next innovation should be that the fluid goes into the tender, then is pumped up to the smoke unit.  Now that would be more prototypical.  

On another note, with modern smoke generators, can loading smoke fluid while the generator is still hot damage it ?

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Set up at the club last night. Easy instructions to follow. However, this does need tweaking. Took about 20 minutes to get the flow going. Make sure you have enough fluid in the tank as well as no air bubbles in the line. Once we got going, this was a way cool addition to the layout.

 

Jeff

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