I have come up with a color scheme and begun painting. I also started assembling it as I go to get a feel of the amount of rusting to do to give it a real look.
QUESTION? I want to test the smoke generator but never using this train I am unsure how it works and what I need to get it going. Can anyone who is experienced with this Loco give me a step by step on what to do?
You can download the owner’s manual from Arstocraft’s website. The smoke detector is turned on and off by a sliding switch on the footplate in front of the smokebox. I believe (if memory serves me right) pushing one of them in towards the cab, turns the smoke generator on.
Odds are it’s not going to work–it probably got burned out by being run without fluid
Just put a few drops of lamp oil in the smokestack, and push the switch in, and it should turn on
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Thank you so much Mike Omalley that web site gave me more information than I could ever ask for. Its people like you on this forum that inspires hobby goers moving forward.
Ok things are coming together. But I have a question about the smoke generator. I got the blower fan working by replacing 2 of the diodes.
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I measured the resistance across the heater element. I assume that it is a heater? and I get 0 ohms. Does anyone know how much of a resistance I should get? I know that a heater usually has a very low resistance but I am not sure about these type of heaters? Normally when a heater blows it reads infinity and is open so I assume that this element is still good. Am I correct?
Here is a picture so far. As you can see much progress has been made. I am still working on the sound car.
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Jason Brown said:
Here is a picture so far. As you can see much progress has been made. I am still working on the sound car.(http://www.lscdata.com/users/navytech/_forumfiles/NewLoco.jpg)
That looks great! Painting the piping a different color really brings out the detail. Nice green–what color is that? What kind of paint?
Yes,
Very nice. You should post the “before” and “after” pics together.
Ralph
Dear Jason,
The heater element should be closer to 100 Ohms than zero. Is your meter on the “Ohms x 1” setting? You could have a solder bridge (short) somewhere around your diodes.
If there is an “on-off” switch for the heater/blower, turn it “off” as you are measuring the resistance of the heater. I assume the diode bridge is to keep the fan blowing in the same direction with changing loco directions.
Check to see if all the diodes are in the proper orientation. Left and Right rail inputs to diodes shoud each have a stripe and a no-stripe end of a diode touching them. Fan(+) should have 2 stripe ends touching it, and Fan(-) should have 2 no-stripe ends touching it.
I’m not sure of the heater circuit. It could be just a heater element, or it could have some kind of thermal cutout switch in series with a heater element.
Anyone with more knowledge of this smoke and fan circuit, please chime in.
Absolutely gorgeous results on the paint.
Great job.
Sincerely,
Joe Satnik
Looks nice! Good job!
Before
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After
(http://www.lscdata.com/users/navytech/_forumfiles/LocoL.jpg)
Congratulations Jason.
You really have turned a sows ear into a silk purse.
Indeed,
A job very well done.
Ralph
This looks great! When I saw the picture of your disassembled engine, it struck me that this is what something looks like right before I put it in a box and list it on ebay. “Assembly required”
