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- From: fec@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (f.e.carey)
- Subject: Re: gas headlights
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:35:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.203511.17982@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- The materials needed are carbide and water. The device mounted
- on the old runnning boards was an acetylene generator in which
- the carbide was placed. Water was somehow metered in.
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- A friend with a 1911 Cadillac uses the original headlights for
- driving but not the generator - says it's unreliable, hassle, etc.
- He uses small cylinders of industrial acetylene gas which he
- hides under the car somewhere. The headlight brightness is
- extraordinary - as good as sealed beam headlights. Lighting
- the lamps is quite a show: the tank valve is opened, a match
- is lit and held to the lamp burner, a huge flame leaps forward
- out of the lamp for several feet until the tank valve (possibly
- a lamp valve) is adjusted.
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- Frank Carey at Bell Labs
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