rwill19050 Loc: Witney, Oxfordshire, UK

And we thought it was Electricity !!!!!

Forget all the nonsense about magnetic fields and the flow of electrons along conductors, for this is what it is, just a myth, put about by Electricians to support their cosy lifestyle at someone else’s expense.
The reality is SMOKE.
When you think about it, it all becomes startlingly obvious - smoke makes all electrical things function.
If the smoke escapes the component stops working.
For example, the last time you changed a starter motor, didn’t it start to smoke before it ceased working? of course it did.
And what about that heater motor that sprung a leak and filled the car with smoke.
The wiring loom in a car carries smoke from one device to another, pumped around the system by the alternator, and when the wiring springs a leak, it lets out all the smoke and everything stops.
The starter motor requires a lot of smoke to make it work, that is why it has a very thick wire leading to it.
The battery stores up the smoke dissolved in acid and the wires from it allow it’s distribution around the car.
If you try to dissolve too much smoke in the battery it will escape through the little holes in top.
This is why new fangled batteries with sealed tops explode when they get too much smoke in them.

Watch it you electricians, we all know how it works now. :mrgreen:

Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

A funny explanation of it. You'd have to be one [Sparky] to put it that way. The females would probably understand that explanation.
It's almost better than the water in a hose analogy.

gphotography Loc: Colorado

I'm an electronic engineer, and one of the first things we learned was don't release the factory installed smoke! I always thought that joke was funny.

Fat Gregory Loc: Southern New Jersey

Another excellent example of the importance of smoke management is the British auto industry in the 50's, 60's and 70's... Lucas never managed to keep the Smoke in the wires!!!

Danilo Loc: Las Vegas

Do people smoke pot in the UK?

DePratt Loc: Stantonsburg, NC

I have replaced and repaired a lot of the smoke carriers and users in my time and also released a bunch too. :-D :-D :-D

rayford2 Loc: New Bethlehem, PA

I read somewhere that "Lucas" was an acronym for "loose unsoldered wires and connections".

cudakite Loc: San Antonio

How true, Tried to keep an E-Type running once but could never contain the smoke leaks for any appreciable span of time. Btw, is that your '55? Looks bitchin!

R.G. Loc: Scotland

Sad but true. No-one had the sense to realise that they couldn't let dodgy electrics become an Achilles Heel, so they all danced blindly towards the cliff.

Fat Gregory Loc: Southern New Jersey

Thanks for the stroke on the 55, it took me 6 years
I had a 65 E Type and I leaked more smoke than oil:-)
I have a 94 Jag XJS-R smoke stays in wires and the R clocks at an honest 155 MPH. ZOOMMM is its Tag Number and even with the R safety goodies it will scare the liquid out of my underwear.

papayanirvana Loc: Kauai

hehe... this thread proves that.

:mrgreen:

cudakite Loc: San Antonio

Ah, The stuff of my youth! Now, those really were the days! The gear heads then actually got along. The street racers i've seen lately seem a lot angrier.
The first friend i had who owned a car had a '55. Oh man! The limitless sense of freedom!!!

rayford2 Loc: New Bethlehem, PA

Should have read "loose unsoldered connections and splices".