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unblocking a smoke machine


lee weathers

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Im afraid we throw alot of smoke machines away these days with blocked capilliaries. The tubes especially on the cheaper chinese units are very very thin indeed and can get totally caked, post mortems have shown them to be completely solid all the way through! The better quality machines eg Jem have slightly larger tubes and respond well to cleaning regularly with iron descaler or distilled vinegar (watch the fumes / eyes!!).

 

The cheaper ones simply arent worth the effort...just look on fleabay at the number of faulty ones for sale.

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Unless it's a valuable machine then the cost of the diagnosis time will excede the cost of a new machine. If it's of Chinese origin then the spares comein units of one called buy a new one. If it's yours to potter then separating the parts and flushing just the heater block/tube with a warm kettle de-scaler may help to recover something! Sadly the pumps do NOT like trying to push anything through clogged pipes so the pump may already be failing.
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