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Have a red plastic smoke tube that is broken or missing....Well get a hollow plastic coffee stir stick cut to size and insert into smoke unit.These are like small straws and diameter is smaller than smoke tube but it will work.Get red and it will still light up....

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mopac
Thanks for the cheap trick.
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Big Ed, it also puts a red glow like a fire down in smoke stack. Something Gilbert
started for their 1953 models. Actually started in 1952. They also painted inside
of smoke stack white to enhance the glow. The headlight bulb is source for light.
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That engine would not go over in California with all the wild fires. A steam engine did
start a wild fire a couple of years ago. I think it was the Durango. 3,000,000 settlement
in court.
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