Re: Looking for parts

[Scott A Smiley <sc.smiley@juno.com>]

Do a search on Ebay for liquid smoke repair kit and you will find one
source for a replacement.  i agree with Ed. on the whistle.  Post war
just wanted a DC current.  Current technology allows the unit to detect
the direction and thus allowing multiple operations, bell and whistle.

Scott

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:32:06 -0700 Pauwels Mike-rycl90
<Mike.Pauwels@motorola.com> writes:
> Y'all,
> 
> I have taken apart Hugh's engine yesterday to find out why the smoke 
> is intermittent.  As someone had suggested, the resister had burned 
> up.  However I have not been successful in finding a replacement 
> resistor (and the fiberous element covering it) anywhere on the web. 
>  Could someone direct me to a supply for these parts?  The engine is 
> a K-line, and I wrote the website for advice but so far no answer.
> 
> I have also investigated why his tender whistle wouldn't work.  
> After disassembling, testing, reverse engineering, etc. I found out 
> that the whistle actually does work if the transformer connections 
> to the track are reversed.  In a conventional whistling tender, the 
> whistle is activated by the superimposed DC on the track using a DC 
> relay.  The polarity of the relay was not significant.
> 
> However with the electronic switch used by the K-line tender is 
> polarity sensitive.  When I reversed the transformer leads, the 
> circuit switched the current properly.  This brings me to a question 
> for you experts out there.  When the whistle switch is closed, is 
> the center track supposed to be positive with respect to the outside 
> tracks?  Is that the way the club layout is wired?  Do the club 
> command controls actually apply conventional whistle signals to the 
> tracks?  (His whistle didn't seem to work on the club layout 
> either.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mike Pauwels
> 
> 
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