K-Line Mikado Upgrade

WOW John,  I can't wait to install the ones I bought !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Best,

Dave

Hi John

Wow what a home run, it looks, sounds, and smokes
Awesome!!!!!

Alex

Very nice. I'm surprised it didn't set off the smoke detectors.

How did you fit the smoke unit, with the forward facing motor?  I have this very engine and was thinking of doing the same thing as I'm sick of the Kline cruise and old railsounds.

GRJ,

You're killing me bro!  I literally just bought one of these Friday from a great forum member.  Ran it for the first time today and thought, 'it needs a fan smoke unit and one of GRJ's boards."  I log in to this forum and see this post!

 

My favorite part of your video is seeing the smoke behind the mountain before the loco is ever visible!  Now that's a smoker!

That baby really smokes and sounds good as well. Very nice job.

 

See you at York.

Thanks guys.   It is certainly a smokin' fool!

 

Gary, the smoke unit I used is a standard MTH PS/2 type with the short posts.  The motor is in the rear under the fan chamber.  I removed the puffer and made a small aluminum mounting plate.  I used a couple of shims to get the height proper and it mates perfectly with the boiler stack.

 

It's a tight fit with the Super-Chuffer board, I ended up sticking it up over the motor encased in heat-shrink.  The boiler shell is too narrow near the smoke unit to put it there, and the top was the only available location.

A great job John, the smoke is amazing.

Freakin' amazin'... Sick!

Okay GRJ, now you've done it...

 

I went out and bought a TMCC loco just to add a Super-Chuffer to it!

 

Should be here by the end of the week!

Man that's a lot of smoke... I hope there's no smoke detector in that room  That's crazy.  Definitely cool seeing the smoke on the other side of the mountain before the engine comes around the corner.

DANG!  My K-Line Mikado is one of my favorites.  At some point I will need to do what you just did as that is bad ***.  Amazing to see that much smoke coming out of that engine.  Well worth the upgrade.

The only downside of all the smoke is you have to refill it pretty often.  The loop around that basement is about 450 feet of track, it's one giant folded dogbone.  About two trips around and it's time for more fluid.  Running on low, it made it around four times before noticeable drop-off in smoke was evident.

 

The trick with these upgrades is the MTH smoke unit, those things just POUR out the smoke.

 

Keith, if you upgrade your Mikado, I'd use the MTH smoke unit.  I am running that one on a single resistor.  Of course, it's mandatory to have the Super-Chuffer as well.

 

That is sooooo cool!!

 

I'm curious about something, gunrunnerjohn. I saw you posting on another forum, do you perform DCC installations into older HO diesel locomotives?

 

Jim

Jim,

 

Nope, I'm pretty much strictly O-gauge.  I do end up doing some repairs on STD-gauge MTH stuff, but that's just like big O-gauge.

 

Awesome job, John!  That is a very realistic looking engine.

 

Art