well its that old favouritre again, I was wondering, as there are now a number of successful smoke generators on the market, has anyone solved that ellusive black smoke conundrum?
I came close recently. I have the hot wire/oil variety, it works well, just so long that I remember to top the oil up, or it burns out! A science teacher explained to me that basically, black smoke is soot, unburnt, and is a sign of inefficiency of combustion, hence modern efficient cars etc dont smoke, makes sense? So, he gave me what can best be described as very very fine carbon dust. I put some down the funnel of my smoke generator, hoping that the heat would make the dust rise, and discolour the white smoke, it went a light grey colour, but no better. Has anybody had any success with any other method?
last summer, I was running the model, forgot to top up the oil, the smoke started to go black, Eureka!! I thought, only to find the hull was smouldering
Its the boat in the picture, Orca