Mega steam in MTH

I was also wondering, how is their diesel scent in diesels by mth?

Thanks, Liam  

They smell like you'd expect them to smell from the descriptions. No issues.

I haven't tried every scent, of course, but the ones I have used are very faithful to the smell you would expect.

I only have a few MTH locomotives that smoke, and have used the smoke fluid that comes with the locomotives, as well as a couple scents I've purchased from both MTH and Mega Steam. 

 

Coal Fired Steamer from Mega Steam is probably my favorite in terms of how much smoke it produces. The scent is good as well. 

 

I've also tried Wood Burning smoke from MTH, I don't think it has quite the volume of smoke, but I do like the scent. 

 

I've also tried the coffee scent from MTH, After a while the scent gets a bit overpowering. Although, I just realized the other day it smells exactly the same as the coffee scented "country fixins" smelly stuff and candle my wife has sitting on our kitchen table.   

I only use Megasteam and it smells and works fine in all my MTH engines. Sometimes I'll change out the wick in a new MTH engine because the smoke fluid they put in the factory "Stinks" and takes a long time to burn out.

Some of the megasteam scents are stronger than others. I personally prefer the "Nada" scent, just because I dont like the smell that lingers afterwards. Around the holidays though, some of the smoke scents are fairly pleasant. Biggest difference I've noticed between MTH and megasteam fluid is that a fill of megasteam lasts longer. The volume of smoke falls off a bit faster with MTH fluid. 

Once I get done with the big bottle of protosmoke I bought (I stupidly bought the big bottle shaped like a train), I'm switching to megasteam.

I have a bunch of the scents, and recently I bought a large bottle of the NADA.  It's worked well in both MTH and Lionel locomotives, I don't see any difference in smoke production between the MegaSteam and the MTH or Lionel fluid.  Note I haven't tried the Lionel Premium stuff, and I see no reason to.

I switched over to megasteam 3 or 4 years ago and have not looked back. Use it in everything and it works well. Wick life has not been an issue. When one needs new wicking I usually put in tiki torch wick. So far so good.

Some of my favorite sents are grandpas pipe, original cedar, orange, and diesel.

Coal fired steamer smells a little noxious to me, but that's just me.

 

Rod

Megasteam scents work fine in my MTH locomotives.

 

Judging by posts on this Forum, changing the wick is necessary only if a smoke unit has run "dry" or received too much juice. Chris Lonero posted that he changed wicks to get rid of a scorched scent from factory smoke fluid, so that is another factor.

Correct, if you run the smoke unit dry, the heat in the resistor is not dissipated making smoke, but rather in burning the wick.  Once it's charred, it no longer wicks properly and needs to be replaced.

 

I also use Tiki torch material, works just as good as the stuff that Lionel and MTH sell and is far less expensive.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but since its oaky to use Megasteam smoke fluid in both Lionel and MTH locomotives, then shouldn't it be okay to use Lionel fluid in MTH and vice-versa?

 

Stuart

 

I can't think of a reason why not...

Any brand fluid in any brand engine. I find Lionel premium fluid is the best right now. My opinion.

Sooner or later smoke unit wicking will need to be changed depending on how often you use them. The wicking still becomes hard over time, and still becomes burned to a degree even with enough fluid. When your loco "doesn't smoke like it used to",its probably time.

One more thing to remember. All way's have enough Mega-Steam on hand!

 

Best in terms of what? Smoke volume? Smell? Lasting longer?


       

Best volume

Lasting in the engine

Lasting in the room

Least smell.

Best visible white smoke

Mega-Steam also dissipates quicker and doesn't hang in the air. I have been using only "NADA" for a couple of months and found with my relatively new allergies I can run it much longer without any issues. My wife who is sensitive to smoke doesn't even know when I'm running smoke in the train room.

Is it my imagination, or do women just seem to really dislike smoke?  My wife hates it when I use mine (even though I got some scents I thought she would enjoy) and my sister dislikes it when her husband uses his!  Wondering if you guys have similar experiences?

Tell me about it the wife made me move the train room up stairs because of tiny lionel puffer units  at least now I can get the big leauge mth units  I bet you your not alone I am sure others will chime in too I have seen even better improvements when you replace the wicking with tiki torch wicks it is only 2.00 and you get pretty much all you will need for a few years depending on how many units you have to change out  Maybe that will make your wife smell it more pleasantly.

Not all women dislike train smoke. I love it, and only consider the atmosphere in my train room to be correct when one can hardly see from one end to the other, and everything smells of hickory wood. (My favourite Mega-Steam scent.) But then again, I am an old bat from the days of steam, and one of my earliest memories is of my mother holding me over the edge of a bridge as the trains passed underneath.

That's a memory I can relate to as well.  When I was a boy, I would lean over the wall on the Wick Ave. bridge in downtown Youngstown and get a face full of smoke from trains running on the Erie tracks below.