My diner wont smoke any more. What can be done?
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Send a e-mail to Menards and tell them your diner needs a new smoke unit. If you purchase the diner from a Menards were you live, take it back and ask them to either repair or replace it. If your diner is over a year old, buy a new one.
Billsrr,
What are you going to do about your diner?
I have THE ROCKET diner by Menards on my layout, but haven't used the smoke unit. With this report, perhaps I won't ever use it. I bought it because I'm a Rock Island hobbyist/collector.
Instead of blowing smoke with this accessory, I decided to add sound effects to it with an external sound chip provided by IT Products according to my text -- a diesel horn and a welcoming announcement by the diner "host."
Mike Mottler LCCA 12394
We need a lot more information to help @Billsrr. This is close to saying "My train doesn't run, what's wrong?"
I don't run trains every day. sometimes I may go several weeks without the trains being moved. When I do run trains it may be for only a few minutes. The diner may have run dry a few times since the run time is low. The other day someone wanted to see the train room so I fired things up and added water, only distilled water, and there was no smoke.
@Mike H Mottler posted:I have THE ROCKET diner by Menards on my layout, but haven't used the smoke unit. With this report, perhaps I won't ever use it. I bought it because I'm a Rock Island hobbyist/collector.
Instead of blowing smoke with this accessory, I decided to add sound effects to it with an external sound chip provided by IT Products according to my text -- a diesel horn and a welcoming announcement by the diner "host."
Mike Mottler LCCA 12394
I am not familiar with I T Products, can you send a link?
Jeff:
Ooops - the company name is ITT Products. They made two customized sound chips for me. I provided the digital audio files and they followed thru on the project. Both sound effects are now installed on my layout:
1) An excerpt of brass band music for my Lionel Bandstand.
2) A diesel horn and welcoming announcement by the host of Menard's ROCKET DINER.
Google the words: ITT Products to find their website, e-mail address, and phone number. I highly recommend the company for top quality at a reasonable price -- with prompt follow-through.
Mike Mottler LCCA 12394
Sometimes the valve on top of the smoke unit gets clogged up. Put a little water on it and blow on it. It may take several tries... I did this with one of mine. Also, very important is to use distilled water only...
The diner is now open the darn thing started to work again. It had plenty of water so I guessing that it must have been clogged.
