living in welsh wales finding it very hard to get marklin any think and the price + vat not grate

i heard baby oil works i brought some for £1.50 and had intermittent smoke a lot of filling and emptying with very little joy. reading user-net E liquid was on some old posts but no 1 was 100% happy with it. Lot's of people was talking about paraffin thorough about trying it looked all over town only found paraffin ulta low sulfur 5L and quite a price think this would work so started looking in chary shops came across lot's of old oil lamps with oil in bargains for £2

so how is it working out the fleet is BR43 Br44 Br50 all with the removable tube and a new BR24 with marklin 72270 smoke generator retrofit kit

well the older big smoke generators come of ebay of unknow ages. Firs of cleaned them out the best way is to take out the tube and hold it in pliers then light a match and burn tube THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED as a regular cleaning moor problem fixing you can get it red hot very quick do both ends! replace and allow to cool then turn on the smoke and start adding drops of oil lamp thay instantly starts smoking add 10ish drops just until it stops smoking leave it for 20seconds move the tube up a fraction then back down if still no smoke add 1 moor drop top of the tube then it runs fine the moor use they get the better they come after 4 runs over a week you can run them just buy turning on some brake in easer than other's

as for new 72270 smoke generator brought from Italy new. Oil will not go down the top so brought blunt syringe needles of e-bay find oil of any sort in syringe's creates a vacuum witch ends up with a stuck plunger and the house looks like a crack den with broken needles in a messy layout room so the plan is to use an empty revell glue with needle tip all quite full at moment so panning ahead for now im dripping oil onto of stack turning it on read at some point to only use 6 drops to the 72270 it will not fire up so I use a pipet dropper like a toilet plunger this works BUT DONOT DO THIS as the stack is hot and pipet is thin plastic I will update when find better way keep smoking

Hess

thanks kiwialan i have some sewing machine oil are thay the same i will look up ingredients and try them if the same if not will try both the 43 is running well so that will be use for all testing any 1 else want stuff testing let me know Hess

I use karosene. The Marklin digital dudes Curtis Jeng and Rick Sinclair reccomend it. A gallon of it as heater fuel is sold at home and lumber supply stores for under $6.00 U.S.

Kerosene has been recommended by a number or people who are reliable. Having been a fuel oil deliverer in my previous life I can tell you that not all kerosene oil is the same. One had a high sulfur content. I would make sure it is pretty pure. Usually smell and clarity indicate purity. It should be available most everywhere and much cheaper than the branded stuff that you buy in tiny quantities.

Hi
Kerosene use: totally unknown territory (long term effects use on Marklin / Seuthe smoke units).
I also think Kerosene is dangerous and probably totally prohibited for children to use it.
Cheers
Jean

I am getting more spill/overflow on the boiler with lamp oil thanks for the info BHP

Kerosene is working really well if you get a cracking noise just add a drop of baby oil to calm it down will run it for a week. as for track cleaner that sounds good so any build up in hard to reach area are also getting cleaned by micro droplets still running with window open its summer so can not tell any side affects other than a big grin