Hello All,
I overfilled my Bigboy with smoke fluid now it has stopped smoking. What can I do to fix the seuthes?
Thanks
Nelson77
Westminster, Md

After you drain it out don't know why there would be a problem with them. Maybe a piece of dirt lodged in the tube?? Or maybe some fluid got down between the tube shell and loc shell breaking the ground connection. Or some fluid got onto the contact tab (hot wire contact)?? Just maybe some things to check.

Regards, Kevin

I do this all the time (having the steady hand of a maracas player)

All I do is get the corner of my hankie and dip it into the overfill. The hankie sucks up the fluid and, voila, she starts smoking.

Of course it helps if you have to do it as soon as you have overfilled it.

Has always worked for me

If it's really bad, I pull out the entire smoke unit, receptacle and all, clean as described above with cloth/cotton swap, dab with lighter fluid to clean all surfaces, including those that may have spilled on the loco chassis below ...

Then, blow dry all parts with the hair dryer (if you can wrestle it from the FD, that is ... hmmm ;)
As I have no hair left to speak of, the above machine tool specializes in this smoke stack purpose exclusively ^^.

Y

Obviously "not too much", and that is a relative issue...

I'd say to be restrictive, and top up when needed after a few minutes.

I myself had the habit of filling up too much, kind a like one 3rd full or so, and the only result I got was boiling oil that splattered over the loco body.
When enough oil had been lost, it usually started to smoke... But waste of smoke oil indeed...

Am a bit reluctant myself to smoke units nowadays, they do draw extra current which can be used elsewhere...
It's a very nice show feature, though...