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Smoke Oil Scents

RCTE often gets asked what scents are available and why don’t we stock it.

Well this is your chance to have an input. Here is a poll of the scents available.

www.rctankelectronics.com/survey.html

Based on your choices we could add to our current selection.

Thanks for the opportunity to vote Tankbear.
Not sure why anyone wold want anything other than one of the "classic" smells, but I suppose its "different strokes for different folks".

I've tried several different "scents" and they all smell pretty much the same to me.

Thanks for your input guys.

My preference is actually the food and drink scents over the more authentic scents but by running a poll I get a feel of users preferences.

So far the poll results are

Classics - Diesel Power @ 50%
Classics - NADA (99% Scent Free) @ 20%
Classics - Wood Stove @ 10%
Christmas - Hot Chocolate @ 10%
Environment - Lumber Mill @ 10%

Is there a petrol/gasoline option ?
All the German tanks in WW 2 ran on petrol.

Tiggr wrote:Is there a petrol/gasoline option ?
All the German tanks in WW 2 ran on petrol.

No unfortunately not. Megasteam who make the scents make them for model train smoke units, so most of the realistic scents are based around them. Agree a petrol scent would suit a lot of WW2 tanks, but I’ve no idea how to create it. Maybe added a few drops of thin mineral oil to the mix would give the essence of burnt oil. Although I’m not recommending you add flammable liquid to a smoke unit in your tank!

It doesn't help that the only Tanks with diesel engines that are readily available are Soviet era and what is more frustrating is that a number of British Tanks were diesel powered BUT no one makes them
Shaun.

Tankbear wrote:

Tiggr wrote:Is there a petrol/gasoline option ?
All the German tanks in WW 2 ran on petrol.

No unfortunately not. Megasteam who make the scents make them for model train smoke units, so most of the realistic scents are based around them. Agree a petrol scent would suit a lot of WW2 tanks, but I’ve no idea how to create it. Maybe added a few drops of thin mineral oil to the mix would give the essence of burnt oil. Although I’m not recommending you add flammable liquid to a smoke unit in your tank!

Yes I know of them.
I use a 50/50 mix of Citronella and BBQ lighter fluid on all my smoking locos

Scent free all the way

You could use paraffin for the Abrahams!