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How does a car cigarette lighter work? (www.lumafield.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

[off topic?]

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

“...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 :/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Found it in the Popular Mechanics issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

A "smoke."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I wanted a video, but couldn't find one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

check the thread. Other people are smarter than us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

*more willing to work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

And they say no one wants to work these days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Work smarter, not harder

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Was the auto play auto focus video ad not enough of a motivator?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

"motivator"? I'm sorry, what am I supposed to be motivated to do?