Quick help please: MTH overfilled smoke fluid, what to do?

Just run it until it starts smoking again. No damage will occur, although the waiting might try your patience.

You can also leave it upside down overnight. Place it on something to absorb the fluid.

thanks much!

If you have DCS set the smoke output to MAX. If conventional just turn the volume knob for the smoke control all the way up. That should vaporize excess fluid quicker.

Pipe cleaners are perfect for sopping up excess.

Rod

I accidentally did the same thing once. I eventually solved the problem by taking the smoke unit apart and moving the batting. It turned out that the part between the heating elements had burned up and was preventing smoke from being produced, so I put a different section of it between the heating elements. I'm not sure if that was actually caused by the smoke unit being overfilled, but it might be good to try if you're unable to drain the smoke fluid or get it burning.

I would take the top off of the smoke unit and check that batting for being burn, if it's burnt in any way replace it my gosh battings very cheap!! then refill it before you re assemble it then put top on and screw down should working perfectly !

Alan

I have pipetts  i use for smoke fluid filling, which can also used for sucking fluid out.  I would discourage taking it apart unless you have spare gasket that goes between the reservoir casting and the pc board.  When pulling these apart, often times the gasket gets broken.  If there is not a good seal, smoke leaks out and soon your engine has smoke being sent out inside the engine.

If you turn the engine upside down and the smoke fluid doesn't run out, it's not overfilled.  If it's not smoking properly, it actually might not have enough smoke fluid.  I never counted how many drops are in a dropper of Mega-Steam smoke fluid, but I recently put 85 drops in my Lionel SOO Line SD90 and it out smokes the best of MTH.  If you watch down the stack how the drops are being absorbed by the wick, you will know when you are reaching the maximum that can go in.  That is, if you can see the wick or heating element depending on what type of stack is on the engine.