Hornby 57XX with better smoke effect.

I'd had such brilliant results with converting KE1 and my Duchess to run slow and produce more smoke (check out my video list) using a single resistor that I fancied trying the same on my 1971 vintage Syncrosmoke 0-6-0. It never produced much smoke unless I ran it so fast that it would fall off on the first curve so I thought it was worth a try.

Unfortunately, with just a single resistor, the old Tri-ang motor didnt like the very low power that the resistor let through but thanks to members of this forum http://thecentralstation.myfreeforum.org (especially our resident leccy Teleman) I was told to double up with the resistors and wire them in parallel it worked a treat!
So this is the vid..
Dedicated to all the members on the forum.
Cheers lads!

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• hornby
• tri-ang
• smoke
• syncrosmoke
• trains
• railways
• models

[CineSteam]

That looks so cool! One question though: How did you get it to "puff" as opposed to sending a steady stream of smoke through the funnel? Are your smoke units still Seuth or are they now a different make?

Just wondering...

CineSteam

[Tomlan2007]

Cheers CS.

It's the old R051S Hornby 'with smoke' loco. It has a mechanism which gives the puff effect. You can see it on the vid at the very start where the body is off. The orange cog drives a small cylinder that provides the 'puff'.

[NG02shunter]

nice work how hard would it be to convert a deisel?

[Tomlan2007]

Thanks NG. I think it would be a lot more difficult but not impossible. I know I have seen a site on the web which shows how someone used a Seuthe smoke unit and built a 'fan and shroud' mechanism that pushed the fumes out just like a diesel but didn't keep the link (sorry!). Have a google to see if you can find it.

Cheers

Tom

[ronanL10]

wow, nice job Tom!

[Tomlan2007]

Thanks Ronan. It was one of those 'I wonder if..' ideas that worked well.

Cheers

[blaster2012]

Hi,i want to have a go at this myself. Did you mean a 0.6 ohm or 0.6 watt resistor?

[MrFlix76]

im going to do that with mine now con u sub me please

[browndog388]

how do you convert locos into live steam and does it cost anything

[3801Catcher]

top gear music in the background lol

[CineSteam]

Thank you so much!

[bluebellModelrailway]

perfect that looks great! very realistic!!

[NG02shunter]

thanks Tom. i wasnt intending it to be a big deisel as i only have the queens messanger. i was thiking more like a bachman 02 shunter or a hornby 08.

thanks

Nathan