P&P free smoke unit survey

I have an older MTH centipede with 4 smoke units, put 10 drops in each one. Made a few laps around the layout and set the smoke detector off in the basement. LOL! I guess it works real well.THANKS Pats Trains.

 

 

Train Nerd Al

I received mine two days after the post. Worked fine at home.

Took it to "Day out with Thomas" and it smoked a 8x32 layout.

All 7 club members were also impressed.....

 

I had the Christmas sent ad thought it would be a sweet smell like

candy canes. It was not. Close as I can figure it was pine sap.

It was a nice smell....

 

Thanks Pat's trains...

 

I tried Vanilla om my Weaver I 5 and Atlas GP 35 and it worked fine.

Thanks Pat. The pumpkin spice scent is great. Smoke output was a lot better on my Lionel MP SD70 Ace. I've used many brands, yours is the best so far. Will be ordering more. Thanks again.

 

Pat

I visitied Pats Trains Today and recieved the Vanilla to try.   Its outstanding, love the smell and the smoke output is great...can't wait to try other scents!! Thanks Pat

Can anyone offer a comparison with JT's Megasteam?

And Lionel Premium?

Pat sent me the Vanilla scent, smoked well and I must say it had a nice mild fragrance.

 

Art

I am amazed at the smoke output this product issues as well as it,s scent (pine in my case)!

My bottle is White Christmas.  Not sure what it is supposed to smell like; but my wife likes it.  Huge volumes of smoke, and she approves.

Thanks Pat.

Now if it could quiet down my K4 it would be a winner.

I recently tried out a bottle of Pat's Trains new Smoke fluid in Vanilla Scent.

It came in one of three sizes, of which was the small 2 oz bottle.

Upon utilizing in two different locomotives (MTH Premier and 1965 Lionel Scout), I am happy to report that this smoke fluid is very very very good.

I noticed there was no messy residue, and the vanilla scent was not overpowering, yet just enough potency to make a pleasant scent in the room.

Smoke output is good too and easily matches or exceeds the smoke fluids that came with my engines.

My wife who has bad allergies and hates air freshener's actually seemed fine when she smelled it while standing in the door way.

My dogs like it as well, two Siberian Huskies who already come blazing into the train room when they hear the trains running, now go completely nuts sniffing the air.

Thus, all of this and the great prices and service at Pat's Trains, makes these new smoke fluids a winner in my opinion.

Pat's Trains has a great website too! With easy online ordering!

I haven't tried mine yet, but I think it was a very nice gesture to offer smoke fluid to us. thank you

I too received mine and although I haven't tried it yet, I appreciated the offer being extended.  The engine I ordered from them earlier this year arrived quickly and they were very nice to work with.  Seems to be a top notch shop.

I purchased 2 bottles, 1 ea no scent, and pine. Pat added a freebie of White Christmas. Thanks, Pat!

Tried them all yesterday.

Smoke plume is every bit as thick or thicker as MTH's. Looks good coming out!

I could see that set on high, I'd have no problem setting off the smoke detector from trains on my around the room track near the ceiling. But it didn't set it off, even on high setting,  from those on the platform.

 

It disapates as well as JD's. Aroma is as pleasant as both. White Christmas has a wood fire smell.

 

None of the 3 bothered my eyes, either.

 

Defiitely a good smoke!

Let me clarify for the record that the nada lable is used by mega steam and not pats trains. I was just using that lable to signify that the fluid has no oder. When people ask me what does your train smoke smell like I tell them nada,nothing,zero it has no oder. It's just a figure of speech to me. Did not realize it was a brand name. Now with that said. I am not brand loyal or care about that at all. I just want what works the best. some times all I can get is what ever my hobby shop carries at the time. But at the price pat has I may get some more soon and stock up.I really like the stuff!

I received my free trial of vanilla scent and just had a chance to try it out. It produced a nice thick white smoke with a mild vanilla scent that wad not overpowering. I would say it worked well and look forward to trying more. Thank you for the offer - much appreciated!

I have vanilla and smoked very well.I would compare almost to JTS smoke . very nice thanks

I'd like to hear more as it relates to Lionel's premium fluid.  That is all I use in my Legacy engines.

Received my bottle of vanilla scented fluid today and  tried it tonight and figured I would fulfill my end of the deal.

 

 

At the club I belong to right now we have Megasteam and Lionel Premium on the shelve, I have used Megasteam forever up until about a month ago when personally I've been using only Lionel Premium in my Legacy engines, In terms of Smoke Volume the Lionel Premium seems to put out the most smoke in terms of volume at least in Legacy Locomotives.

 

Using Pat's stuff the first thing at least I noticed  since the bottle is clear is when I picked up the bottle was that viscosity was much thicker  compared to Megasteam and Lionel Premium. Lionel Premium just by shaking the bottle seems to be about the same as Megasteam.

 

 

I ran 2 Legacy Locomotives and burned off the Lionel Premium that was currently in them, I filled them with Pat's stuff and noticed at least to me that once added the fluid may have taken a bit longer to actually heat up  and produce normal amounts of smoke compared to Lionel Premium and Megasteam, maybe at most 20 seconds, possibly because of the viscosity difference but I'm no Refinery Technician. Once it heated up  the Volume seemed to be a just a little bit thicker then Megasteam but still not as good as Lionel Premium in terms of Volume 

 

Scent wise it only took a single fill to get a strong clear scent of the vanilla and it wasn't overpowering either,maybe it took one fill because the Lionel fluid doesn't actually have a scent but i don't know. Compared with megasteam i would say it's about the same.

 

 

 

Thank's Pat for letting us try a bottle of you're new smoke, It's definitely a good product.

 

 

Thanks for the review Kevin. Another option for us!

Thanks also kevin. Not to get off topic but I also noticed pats fluid seemed to be a thicker viscosity than my mth I was using. Does this viscosity difference make the smoke coming out the stack look thicker and whiter producing bigger smoke plumes or does the heat of the element ( hot vrs. just turned on)or the ohm size of the element factor in to this whiter thicker look I am seeing? Hope you guys get what I am saying. Thanks!

 

Hello, All

I want to tell the forum members that we have just released a Premium Smoke fluid that will compete with Lionel's Premium smoke. The new smoke fluid is called SUPER MIST AND IS NON SCENTED. The new smoke will only be $5.99 for a 2.0z bottle. I want to stress that our smoke fluid will not make you cough, hack or sneeze and you wife will not yell at you for running the smoke.

The new Stock number is P-SUPMIST2 AND CAN NOW BE FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE.

PATRICK'S TRAINS

WWW.PATSTRAINS.COM

Here are a couple of short videos showing the fluid in action.  First up is a TMCC JLC Allegheny that until now had a less than desired smoke outupt:

 

 

Next is a new Legacy Southern Pacific GS-2 with the same fluid:

 

 

Premium you say? I will have to try some next. See what healthy competition creates. Lower prices and great choices. Thanks patrick!

I received the smoke fluid a few days ago and was able to try some yesterday and today in several engines - steam and diesel. The vanilla smell is very nice, as mentioned above, not overpowering at all. Decent smoke output, comparable to what we've used before.

Thanks a lot Pat's Trains - you have a good product here!

I also received a sample, and based on my tests it seems comparable to other quality smoke fluids.  I'm using the no-scent stuff from Pat's.  

What is this free stuff you speak of? Dang something I might actually be interested in that's free and I missed it.

Pat could you provide a description of the White Christmas scent please?

 

I gave it another try last night at our club meet, it smoked well and seemed odorless. I give it a thumbs up.

HERE ARE SOME NEW SCENTS.

Image:	Price:	Title:	Details:
ZOOM	$5.99	P&P'S SUPER MIST PREMIUM SMOKE FLUID	Stock Number: P-SUPMIST2 Gauge: Any Manufacturer: P&P'S Product Type: SMOKE FLUID Availability: In Stock
ZOOM	$4.99	CHERRY SCENTED 2.0 OZ BOTTLE OF SMOKE FLUID	Stock Number: P-CHERRY2 Gauge: Any Manufacturer: P&P'S Product Type: SMOKE FLUID Availability: In Stock
ZOOM	$4.99	ORANGE SCENTED 2.0 OZ BOTTLE OF SMOKE FLUID	Stock Number: P-ORANGE2 Gauge: Any Manufacturer: P&P'S Product Type: SMOKE FLUID Availability: In Stock
ZOOM	$4.99	SWISS COCOA SCENTED 2.0 OZ BOTTLE OF SMOKE FLUID	Stock Number: P-COCOA2 Gauge: Any Manufacturer: P&P'S Product Type: SMOKE FLUID Availability: In Stock

THANKS

PAT

WWW.PATSTRAINS.COM

What's the "Super Mist Premium", is that special? 

 

Does the Cherry smell like cherry wood burning or cherry flavor?

Is the 2-3 times quote for the that one type or any of your smoke fluids?  I haven't run it long enough to compare the life between this and the other brands as of yet.

Our regular fluid will be 2-3 times as long and the premium a little longer. The premium fluid is a little harder to produce but its worth it.

Thanks

Pat

www.patstrains.com

Thanks for the feedback.  I'll have to do some "life tests" soon to see if the fluid lasts longer.  That would be a large plus, as for longer sessions require regular "fuel" stops.

 

First off thank you very generous. Great scent I wouldn't have tried on my own, Grape!

I loved it does not linger long even if you spill the whole bottle down your leg and onto the carpet!... Oop's...yep... really.(No stain) I did manage one fresh fill on an all new packing highly modified unit in kit bash lasted 12min on high, twice, with regular visitors who ALL liked its smell. After the "spill" I went to mega-steam nada(hated by one guest "the complainer") and am averaging only 7 min, modification is so radical its hard to tell difference in textures here. Each other loco only got a couple drops prior to spill. The TMCCs loved it, post wars with original pellet elements love it, except my chrome 1970s 4-4-0 R.I. General which always had weak smoke but now wants another 2-3v to produce its been a couple weeks still barely producing till I added mega steam, getting better slowly ...ahh it needed a bridge rectifier to slow it down and increase smoke anyway . But the different viscosity, evaporation properties and smoke consistency are closer to the tubes of fluid Lionel gave with the trains than anything else I saw recently(I just used my last of 10-20 childhood tubes  Then found 8 hidden pellets again  Never had the "sludge" issue?)(and Lionel Premium fluid was n.a. local, just miles from Mich HQ). Over all I hope I see P&P on a shelf when I go to support my local guys, Pats Trains has got my full attention as far as non-local supply goes. Great performance on 7 of 8 smokers, thicker, whiter, lasted longer, smelled better(also smoke, nor spill, lingered), and better price. It will head my next fluid quest for sure. Thanks again, I wish I could have given a better long term review with the fresh unit but on single use I did like what I saw.

P.S. (my pw 2037 has sat 2 days, then run for hours, sit two days, run etc etc. for over a week. Have not added a drop  It only runs like this on pellets)