So nephew over the weekend decided to overload the smoke unit with fluid when I wasn’t watching...D’oh! I drained out the residual and am afraid for the worse as the unit has stopped smoking. How do I troubleshoot this? Loco is a PS2, Boston and Albany.
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If your concerned i would take the engine apart and take the top off of of the smoke unit and see how saturated the unit is flooded with excessive fluid .you don't want to fluid flow over the top of the smoke unit top if it's leaked under the top and threw the gasket you'll need to dry everything out and start over. if the wick is to saturated with fluid the heat element will become to wet and not be able to smoke at all the fluid at this point would prevent the wick from getting hot enough to make the wick smoke. if you have a spare wick you might want to replace it!
Alan
Thank you! I will do that and make sure my nephews don’t have access to the smoke fluid
YW!
Alan
Usually, if you drain all the excess fluid and then run the unit with smoke on, it'll get going after a spell. You shouldn't have to take it apart unless you need to clean up excessive fluid that ran all over the place.
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