nascardad88

Greetings, cannot get my M41A to produce smoke, and the "pump" is very noisy...any ideas that could help ?

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grumble09

you may have too much oil in there....if theres too much oil the wee element cant generate enough heat to make it smoke.....on the flip side there may be no oil in their at all, but they usually come primed from the factory, so doubtful i reckon


....mine is a noisy one too, i usually leave it off cos the amount of smoke that comes out is barely visible!

nascardad88

Well thank you Grumble, I OVER filled the smoke tank the very first time sooo...in addition why on earth would they produce, sell and advertise the smoke if it's barley visible. Worth working on, I thionk not.

Thanks again,

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rclaw

I filled the oil as indicated in the manual, and got some to barely visible smokes came out. There was a thread someone has mentioned using scented oil with better results.

atkleiv

I tried scented oil for a while, it produced a lot of smoke.. but after some time the oil fastended inside the smokeunit like glue and ruined it. So don't use that.

A.

nascardad88

Thank you all for your responses, since I've got nothing to loose I might try motor oil or transmission oil ? I might end up pulling the smoke unit out since Iam putting in a Tamiya battle system and could use the room. Pictures and text to follow !!

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NitroAssassin

the smoke units actually produce decent smoke if you have the right amount of smoke liquid in the smoker.. You barely need any at all.. Best thing to do is flip the tank upside down and try to drain it all out.. You can try using that long thing tube they give you with the smoke aerosol.. It will smoke just fine.. If you fill it too much the heating element has a hard time getting hot enough to burn it.. Try draining it completely then run the smoker for awhile..

removeb4flt

thats true Nitro, but alot of the times the cotton like fiber batting after becomes a blobby sludge. this can plug up the exhaust ports. this happened to our bulldogs smoker. also the exhaust tubes might be pinched.

Turbobearcat

Another thing to do is just use the smoker and over a period of time it you will notice that it will start to smoke more and more heavy!

Trust me on that one, my old Tiger I is proof when I start it up.

nascardad88

WOW, I've got some hope now for a smoking tank while doing my mock battles...I'll try all the tips you have suggested, and get back to the thread and update.

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