This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.
Ah, the old school electric car cigarette lighter. Also known as "The curious child’s first learning experience with the concept of ‘hot’ "
How many noses have fallen to its lure?
Fingertips for me, lol.
Same here. I was playing with the little cover thing, accidentally got it stuck, and the plastic handle started to melt off. Burnt the tips of my fingers trying to get it fixed.
Eh, I just took it out to plug in my Game Boy/Game Gear.
Ash trays in all the passenger doors. AKA mini trash cans.
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You used to be able to get a special dispenser that would hand you a lit cigarette as you drove.
https://jalopnik.com/cars-once-came-with-built-in-cigarette-dispensers-1795733052
“…a built-in cigarette case which “hands” you a cigarette at the [unintelligible] of a convenient lever.”
Really disappointed that’s all that link had… No pictures or illustrations, not even a proper description :/
This one has images and a diagram. So you pull the lever on the bottom and on top a cigarette will be Pezzed out. Here’s the car it was installed in. Didn’t find anything about it being lit though.
I wanted a video, but couldn’t find one.
Found it in the Popular Mechanics issue.
No image or diagram? What’s the point of going to the trouble of writing an article of solely words about something most people have never seen before?
The 3d scans you can manipulate on that page are pretty cool.
Not all that surprised by the lighters mechanism though; a bit of nickle chrome wire for a heating element and some bi-metal strips to release it based on temperature. Pretty simple.
Me, being old, thinking about the kids who might see this and not understand it at all.
