Legacy whistle steam issue

I would gently blow a puff of air into fill hole and see if a miniscus is stopping smoke effect also where smoke comes out by whistle that will clear that issue.

also add 20 drops when  whistle effect is down to a faint whisp and let it soak a minute .
this is a known issue with any of the modern fan/smoke units.

hope this helps you enjoy the big boy

A LionMaster Big Boy with whistle steam???  Sure it isn't a Vision Line Big Boy?

If it is a VisionLine Big Boy, you have to develop the knack of feeding the right amount of fluid to the stacks, whistle, and blow down.  Letting them run dry is a not good and overfilling is not good.  Per Lionel, you have to let the units cool down before adding more fluid.  I think there are some Lionel videos on filling the BB and there is one video Smoke Unit 101.  St Paul's suggestion is right on.

See:

http://www.lionel.com/Customer....cfm?documentID=6960 and

 

http://www.lionel.com/Customer....cfm?documentID=6458

This Lionmaster Big Boy has whistle smoke...

 

Lionmaster BB 4011

Oops,

There is a Lionmaster Big Boy; the rules for smoke function are the same.

Here is a video including filling the stacks with smoke fluid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwGKZK5DCfg

 

RickM46

I have that same loco and the whistle steam feature was a little rough running at first.

I used a can of compressed air along with the thin straw attachment that comes with it to put a blast of air right into he whistle steam opening.

After quite a few hours of runtime, the system seemed to finally get thoroughly primed and no longer required this step.

 

Also, the smoke whistle steam seemed most dense when the unit was filled the night before and given the night to fully saturate. 

If I tried to just do a quick fill while running, the fluid rarely seemed to get to the whistle steam system.

 

Also, this loco is very thirsty. Probably not to the level of the Vision Line BB but it does go through the fluid.

 

When I took the smoke unit apart once to replace the batting, I noticed there is a pretty big cube of batting so it can hold quite a bit of fluid and dual resistors so it can burn it up pretty quickly.

 

"This Lionmaster Big Boy has whistle smoke..."

 

wow, i never knew that.  how did i miss out?

The latest Legacy version sure did. I think it originally shipped sometime in 2013. I could be wrong. 

Great runner. Great detail. Crazy volume of smoke. 

So good that, for me at least, it made it impossible to justify the purchase of a Vision Line BB.

 

Whistle smoke was on several Lionmaster locomotives.  I have the Lionmaster Legacy PRR T1-Duplex, that one also features whistle smoke.

 

Well I got the whistle smoke to start working but now smoke seeps out of the whistle all the time. I can't win.

My Legacy Atlantic does that, it always have smoke weeping out of the whistle.

Our Legacy atlantic seeps as well. Can't say that I've noticed it on the BB but it's whistle smoke stream is much finer compared to the Atlantic's.

 

The Atlantic whistle actually has more smoke than the stack on mine, it really puts out a blast of smoke!