LC+ GP-7 Stopped Smoking

Can you hear the smoke unit fan running?  I know the sound is noticeable on my GP20.

Good point, Mike, I'll check.  

Almost sounds like you don't have enough fluid in the unit.

2 drops is not nearly enough.  15 would be more like it.

Smokin' again.  I was just experimenting and checked to see if I could hear the fan running, as Mike suggested.  It was, so I added a few drops of lamp oil.  It's what I use in all of my large scale locos with smoke units, whether they're Seuthe type or fan driven.  

You may be correct in that I may not have had enough fluid in the smoke chamber.  

On page 17 of the GP-7 manual, it states to add about four drops to the smoke unit ?  In the manual for the A5 it states to add about twenty drops.  

Yeah, I suspect it was not enough fluid.  I have a LC+ RS-3 and Mikado.  I load them up the same as all my engines: slowly add a few drops to make sure it's soaking in.  Then top off with about a half a dropper full.  After that I can usually eyeball when the smoke starts tapering off.  The Lionel instructions are really inaccurate IMO.

Dan,

do yourself a favor and STOP using lamp oil, lamp oil can be dangerous and it stinks. 

Use a fluid made for smoke units in toy trains, many brands available.

Dave

david1 posted:

Dan,

do yourself a favor and STOP using lamp oil, lamp oil can be dangerous and it stinks. 

Use a fluid made for smoke units in toy trains, many brands available.

Dave

 

Dave,

I was trying not to use the lamp oil, but figured a few drops wouldn't hurt anything.  

beachhead2 posted:

Yeah, I suspect it was not enough fluid.  I have a LC+ RS-3 and Mikado.  I load them up the same as all my engines: slowly add a few drops to make sure it's soaking in.  Then top off with about a half a dropper full.  After that I can usually eyeball when the smoke starts tapering off.  The Lionel instructions are really inaccurate IMO.

The tiny bottle of smoke fluid that came with the GP-7 is almost impossible to get the fluid out of.  My A5 came with an eye dropper but no fluid.  I pulled the top off of the bottle of Lionel smoke fluid and filled the eye dropper that way.  Then I squeezed a few drops of fluid into the stack of the GP-7.  It was so much simpler and the fluid didn't get caught at the top of the stack, because the dropper makes smaller drops than the bottle.  What fun.....LOL