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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.
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Push-pull tubes use on control systems.
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Well, DUH! Those are question extractors from the Flux Capacitor. :lol:

Actually, I think the control push-pull tube answer might be right.

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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.

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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.
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No, not the flux capacitors. From the gonkulators, geez.
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It look s like a poormans accumulator to take the shock of a hyd surge out of the sytem... Are they totaly comnnected?
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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 :)

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It appears that they have part numbers on them. Anyone have clearer pix? See, there are some limits to shooting digitally- :wink:

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They are swaged aluminum pushrod tubes.

Awful short though.
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They appear to me to be some sort of green tubes...
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Comes frighteningly close eh???

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Comes frighteningly close eh???

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Nose gear on a Neptune? Been a while since I was around one, so that's just a wild guess.

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DAMMIT

Trying to answer 1 question, and how we have another!

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So an AH-1 with the Flux Capacitor installed would turn into a time machine?

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