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       Life expectancy of fan driven smoke unit
       By: pjdog350 Date: June 26, 2020, 5:43 pm
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       I was wondering if any of you modern train wizards had any
       knowledge about the life expectancy of todays Lionel engine
       smoke units. I've had two failures on my lionchief Mikado. I
       know that this line of Lionel trains is the bottom of the pile
       but maybe someone has knowledge about this. I called Lionel and
       ask this question but by the time I hung up I felt I had just
       talked to a used car salesman. I had posted in another thread
       that I had a fan motor failure and bought a replacement unit.
       Put it in and all is well now. My first failure I had was just a
       few hours after I got the Mikado new and I sent the Mikado back
       to the retailer and they sent me another one. That fan motor
       failed in about 30 hours (I'm guessing here). This new unit I'm
       watching a logging the time. I've also got another smoke unit
       coming and should have that in a week or so. I'm asking for any
       knowledge you all may have as while I was running my New Hudson
       and the Mikado this morning and enjoying a fresh cup of coffee
       the thought that I may have a failure again right know. Then I
       thought that maybe your not supposed to run the engines so slow
       so that puff slowly. One if the things I like about the modern
       Lionel engines is they are really great a pulling a load slowly.
       The Mikado is really great at this. The Hudson not so much but
       does so it.
       I use to have allot of MTH steamers and never had a smoke unit
       failure. I still have three MTH locomotives. A Hudson, Torpedo
       and a smoking Railking Pennsylvania F-3 ABA. They all smoke like
       WWII Destroyers. The Hudson is from the late 1980's the Torpedo
       from the mid 1990's and the F-3's from 2013. Never had a problem
       with the smoke units?
       Thanks ahead of time for any help.
       Jack
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