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I have read Lionel's online recommendations about dispensing smoke fluid into the smoke stack of my legacy O scale Berkshire using a needle point dispenser. Not wanting to damage the heating elements, and wanting the fluid to go into the wick as much as possible, do I drop the fluid into the center of the smokestack, drop it around the periphery, and how deep should the dispenser go, again not wanting to damage any parts of the system?

 

 

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I bought 4 Megasteam needle dispensers; they work great.

You have to make sure you screw the cap on tight to avoid leakage.

My locos do not give me access to the wading BUT there is no mess when squeezing the dispenser slightly to get a drop to come out.

I think the drops that come out are a bit smaller than those that come out of an eye dropper or Lionel pipette so you have to judge how many drops you need.

My 2 cents.

RickM46

BEWARE of going too deep with a needlepoint when power is applied to the track and/or smoke unit. Damage to the unit can occur! Many smoke units have resistors which are very easy to contact with a needlepoint. I shorted out the smoke unit on a Legacy Blue Comet by touching the smoke resistor with a needlepoint while power was applied.

After watching Mike Reagan's video on smoke units, I always turn them off before adding fluid now. I had too many times crystallized the fluid by dropping it right onto the hot resistor. I was doing a couple things wrong before that video which had caused various issues in the performance of my smoke units. Now I cant run then full time on max smoke as my eyes burn from all the output.

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