Question about BLI engine with smoke -Help?

[canazar]

Tom,

I was looking but I dont see easy access to it the oil resivoir. Another thing, I have the unit on DCC, the smoker is powered off the rail voltage. with DCC its getting all it needs. (used to work great till I pooched it) it used to smoke sitting or running. Now, on DC mode, yeah, had to crank it get it going.

Thanks for the info on the Cabfoward. I am getting farther and farther in to the history of these things. Thats is godo knowledge. The only reaon I would love to get t working, is that my club has a function (big show) and it would be great to have it smoking for the kids. And the Big Ones too.

Take care
John k

[twhite]

John--I haven't had any experience with it, though I have an (unsmoking) cab-forward. When MR was reviewing it a couple of months ago, they mentioned that the locomotive had to be run practically at full throttle in order for the smoke unit to work. This may sound ridiculous, but is the stack big enough to insert an eyedropper to try and siphon out the excess oil? You might try that. If this helps, when I was a kid, I was growing up around cab-forwards, and I can tell you that since they were burning oil, they very largely ran with a pretty clean stack--even hoisting those reefer blocks over Donner summit. Oil burners tend to be like that, it was the coal-burners that put out the plumage. I don't remember very many oil burners clouding up the sky--usually a kind of wisp from the stack.
Tom

[canazar]

Ok I have a new Cabfoward that has a smoke unit on it.

I read the directions and I think now it is overfilled....Of course, the directions just say "Do Not Over Fill." ... Great[:(!]


History...

I got new out of the box Christmas, it smoked great. When it stopped about 4 weeks ago, I tuned it off. Last nite, i added 4-5 drops per directions. Sorta smoke, then stopped... thought well hmm... kinda smoked.. not as well as it did. so I added 3- drops. No, it doesnt smoke, or if ti does, its barley.

As of now, I can tell the blower is working, the unti is heating up. I cann see and smell thatthe oil is trying to come out, (slight residue is buidling aroudn the smoke stack and you can smell it)

So what shoudl I do? At ths point, I think that I did overfill it, and it too much for it to heat up. So, I need to run it ALOT, and sooner or later, it will heat up and start to brun down ands moke more.... [?]

Anmyone have advice or expeirence? Thank you much[:)].

Best Regards
John Kanicsar