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Cerebus:

--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on July 03, 2021, 10:20:07 pm ---Cars with hydraulic power door locks.  Can't image who thought this was a good idea.  Fortunately they weren't mass market.

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Depends what you mean by hydraulics. For many years the central locking on Audis was operated by air pressure and on enough of them to definitely qualify as "mass market". There was a car thieves' trick that allowed you to completely unlock the whole car with a small source of air power applied in the right place. Apparently a tennis ball with a hole cut in it was sufficient if hit smartly to supply said air power.

TimFox:
I remember a "Carl and Jerry" episode in Popular Electronics (somewhere around 1962, maybe) where a disgruntled high-school kid evacuated a small propane tank in the physics lab and used it to suck on vacuum lines to open car locks for knavery.  His excuse was to whine that his awful mother had taken away his tape recorder when he used it to document that she snored.

CatalinaWOW:
The ones I was thinking of were fluid hydraulics.  An uncle had one.  I think it was Oldsmobile or perhaps Buick, and the leaks were unfortunate, both from a staining and odor standpoint.

themadhippy:

--- Quote ---Apparently a tennis ball with a hole cut in it was sufficient if hit smartly to supply said air power.
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A tennis ball cut in half , placed over the boot lock  and struck worked on certain ford estates,so im told.

TerraHertz:

--- Quote from: Brumby on June 12, 2021, 10:37:33 am ---... you realise that when you were born, Albert Einstein was still alive.   :palm:

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Or (in my case) that Einstein died the year you were born.

Also, when you're well familiar with 'decaying antistatic foam' and it's a problem that affects you personally

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