green tubes/ anyone who can identify this?
Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:25 am
One of the forums I visit is about the Back To the Future film cars. The Delorean cars had a lot of aircraft parts on them and one of the parts no-one has been able to identify are these green tubes. The lines are definitely hydraulic lines and I think the green tubes are from a helicopter? Anyone know. It's certainly an aviation part from before 1980.
Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:33 am
Push-pull tubes use on control systems.
Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:37 am
Well, DUH! Those are question extractors from the Flux Capacitor. 
Actually, I think the control push-pull tube answer might be right.
Gary
Actually, I think the control push-pull tube answer might be right.
Gary
Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:52 am
b29flteng wrote:Push-pull tubes use on control systems.
I think so too, but from what?
For some reason I have this weird thought of a Sikorsky H-34.
Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:52 am
That was the first thing that popped into my head as well. Looks similar to some of the control linkages on the AH-1 at CWAM.
Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:54 am
No, not the flux capacitors. From the gonkulators, geez.
Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:30 am
It look s like a poormans accumulator to take the shock of a hyd surge out of the sytem... Are they totaly comnnected?
Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:35 am
Broken-Wrench wrote:It look s like a poormans accumulator to take the shock of a hyd surge out of the system... Are they totally connected?
It doesn't work. They are just random parts bolted together to make the "time machine" look busy
Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:51 pm
It appears that they have part numbers on them. Anyone have clearer pix? See, there are some limits to shooting digitally- 
Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:00 pm
They are swaged aluminum pushrod tubes.
Awful short though.
Awful short though.
Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:54 pm
They appear to me to be some sort of green tubes...
Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:07 pm
Comes frighteningly close eh???
Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:32 pm
Wheels up wrote:Comes frighteningly close eh???
Nose gear on a Neptune? Been a while since I was around one, so that's just a wild guess.
Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:45 am
Wheels up wrote:Comes frighteningly close eh???
DAMMIT
Trying to answer 1 question, and how we have another!
Hmmmm.....
Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:01 pm
So an AH-1 with the Flux Capacitor installed would turn into a time machine?