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Subject: [Spridgets] Lucas Tech 101
From: billmasq at hotmail.com (Bill Masquelier)
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:19:18 -0800
References: <1155ea.1f123362.3a6f74a9@aol.com>
Someone (not me) over on Spritespot has attached to his name:
"The reason that the Germans never bombed the Lucas factory during WWII is
that they considered them allies"!
BillM

> From: Miniac7 at aol.com
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:34:49 -0500
> To: spridgets at autox.team.net; midgetsprite at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Spridgets] Lucas Tech 101
>
> TECHNICAL  EXTRA:
>
> ELECTRICAL THEORY BY JOSEPH LUCAS
>
>
> Positive ground  depends upon proper circuit functioning, which is the
> transmission of  negative ions by retention of the visible spectral
> manifestation known as  "smoke". Smoke is the thing that makes
> electrical circuits work; we know this  to be true because every time
> one lets the smoke out of the electrical  system, it stops working.
> This can be verified repeatedly through empirical  testing.
>
> When, for example, the smoke escapes from an electrical  component
> (like, say, a Lucas voltage regulator), it will be observed that  the
> component stops working. The function of the wire harness is to carry
> the smoke from one device to another; when the wire harness "springs a
> leak," and lets all the smoke out of the system, nothing works
> afterwards. Starter motors were frowned upon in British motorcycles for
> some time, largely because they consume large quantities of smoke,
> requiring very large wires.
>
> It has been noted that Lucas components  are possibly more prone to
> electrical leakage than Bosch or generic Japanese  electrics. Experts
> point out that this is because Lucas is British and all  things British
> leak. British engines leak oil, shock absorbers and hydraulic  forks and
> disk brakes leak fluid, British tyres leak air, and the British  defense
> establishment leaks secrets... so, naturally, British electrics leak
> smoke.
>
> >From the basic concept of electrical transmission of energy in  the form
> of smoke, a better understanding of the mysteries of  electrical
> components - - especially those of Lucas manufacture - - is gained  by
> the casual user.
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