Good evening,
After successfully upgrading the smoke unit in my K-Line Semi Scale Pacific, I want to do more tinkering. I want to upgrade my MTH Crescent Limited 20-3005-1 from a sleuth smoke unit to a MTH fan driven smoke unit. I have tried to find the part number on the MTH website, but they do not have the part list for any of their pacifics online. What is the part number of the smoke unit they use on the newer versions of their pacifics? Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks!
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Last October I bought a sister engine (20-3006-1; cab no. 1401) from a Forumite. It ran with my postwar ZW but not with newer transformers. After emailing, MTH Parts brought a circuit board from a 1997 RailKing Ps-4. Wayne Renga of J&W Electronics installed it.
I asked MTH Parts about replacing the Seuthe unit with a MTH smoke unit. To do that, metal inside the smokebox would have to be removed. A hole for the support screw would have to be drilled down through the cylinder saddle.
Replacing the Seuthe unit is possible but it requires a lot of work.
Come to think of it, Jeffrey D. Steinbacher of J. D. S. Limited Productions upgrades older MTH locomotives. Email him at jeffrey@jdslimitedproductions.com and ask for advice.
He has a table in the Orange Hall at York by the big door about halfway down the wall on the left, facing the Brown Hall
Thanks for the suggestions, I contacted JDS regarding the K-Line upgrades I wanted to do and they quoted me at $379.99! That included adding PS2 and protosmoke. I went back and looked at that email just now and the protosmoke upgrade part of that quote was $64.99, which isn't wasn't that bad and I would not imagine it being much more if any for this locomotive. I still would like to try myself though. Why does MTH not have its part list up for most of its steamers? Would JDS send me just the smoke unit?
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