@MartyR posted:Need some help. With the info on this string, I now know why my smoke unit in this model is melted.
The reason the smoke unit melted could be twofold. Either you ran it with command voltages and simply put more power into the smoke unit than it was designed to dissipate or you didn't have enough fluid in it to dissipate the heat.
You're lucky it didn't melt the side or roof of the caboose!
@MartyR posted:Good information, however, now opening the smoke unit will be an "adventure" as the top is slightly melted on. Before I go through that, does anyone fix these things and/or have any idea where I might find a replacement. The switch to disable the function also seems to be tied to the red blinking tail light. Is that the way it is supposed to be?
The only "fix" I can visualize is replacement. FWIW, I've done a few smoking caboose upgrades using the MTH HO fan driven smoke unit, it can be "tuned" to put out a nice steam of smoke, but not so much as it looks like a locomotive.
