"Please" This is not intended to be a bashing thread of any kind. That being said I just received my new MTH MBTA diesel and I love it! What I don't understand "from both camps" not just MTH is what are they putting in the smoke units in the factory? Most of the time with a new engine you have to put up with the nasty smell from the smoke unit until you can run the stuff out. I would almost rather them ship it dry then the fluid they put in at the factory. Nothing a few runs of Megasteam's "Eliminator" can't cure thank goodness.
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The world may never know... Just like the amount of lickes it takes to get to the tootsie roll inside a Tootsie Pop! Or what's was in that "greese" that failed the Weaver VO1000!
Chris,
Been using them but recently I seem to be having a rash of smoke units go bad. I am going to make a purchase of the above then go back to Lionel for Lionel and MTH for MTH. I like Megasteam a lot because of the price point, size of the bottles and the various smells - love the Christmas offering. Hoping the Eliminator cleans up the problem.
Thanks for the suggestion and recommendation.
Lionel had some problems with smoke unit fan motors I've had a couple go belly up myself.
When anything is manufactured thousands of miles from here in a foreign land, anything is possible. My guess is that they are using industrial waste oil to prime the smoke units.
Bag house waste material from power plants and steel mills seems to make it into quite a lot of products from China.Nick