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Check this out on the Walthers site: http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/227-29601 It's a track cleaner that doubles as a smoke fluid. It is also said to improve conductivity. Will this work in the Seuthe units? Has anyone tried it? If it does indeed work, I don't think any of the issues mentioned here would be issues at all (but only when using this particular fluid. ) I used to be into tinplate (American Flyer and Lionel) and those steamers could really produce the smoke. I never had the problems you guys had, but those were also much larger scales and AC powered, so maybe ithat's why. The American Flyer and Lionel smoke units had pistons to pu***he smoke out of the stack and those pistons were synced to the drivers, so the puffing smoke was really quite realistic. I could see how the Seuthe units would look more like a cigarette and unrealistic. Perhaps the "fan-driven" feature will help. One last question that I had been meaning to ask in a post of my own, but this thread will work as well.. I just purchased one of the new BLI AC-5's with smoke. I didn't buy it for the smoke, but rather because I wanted a BLI AC-5. I won't receive it for awhile yet (coming from HobbiesUSA in Virginia), but I was wondering if there is a switch to turn of the smoke and fan? The reason I ask, was that in the old tinplate smoke units if you let it run dry, the heater elements would burn out. Also, you could get tired of the smoke and would like to have turned it off at times. Perhaps the Seuthe units don't burn out in dry mode, so if you don't want smoke just don't add fluid after it''s run dry / all burned off? I'd like to know if that's the case. Thanks for any answers. Greg
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