1967 rear blinker light sequence analog technology. It is quite interesting.

We still use that tech. ECOLAB dishwashers still use a cam timer to control the cycles. There's one of these things under the counter at every bar in America.

Wow. It that at a restaurant or home? Love it.

That's a commercial restaurant dishwasher. This one is used by bartenders to wash glasses.

Outstanding this looks familiar, I worked at my dad‘s restaurant from seven years old to 23 and I remember the relays that controlled the dishwasher. Now it makes sense that they wear cams.

Electromechanical engineering is a lost art. Look inside vintage jukeboxes and pinball machines. They are absolutely unbelievable.

A cam shaft for my blinkers, thats the kind of tech that I want!

Cams are just another way of programming! Like punchcard computers back in the day Physical media with information

A beautifully simple solution, that ought to keep operating for decades.

Back in the day when you could fix a simple problem with 10$ and 10 min of time.. now it's 2000$ and 20 hours to fix the same kind of problem! But progress is good! Haha

@pit724gt1 50年前の子供用自転車にも、これにも同じ仕組みが内蔵されていました😇

I remember when traffic lights worked this way. You could hear the cams turning and clunking when you stood on the corner next to the traffic light control boxes. So cool!!

One of my junkyard regrets was not taking this system out of a Thunderbird (video is of a Cougar, but same system more or less) back in the 1990s. I didn't have much money and considered it a waste of money for something that would sit on the shelf.

I love the old ways of doing what transistors make easy :) Especially variable mechanical drives.

We went to the moon with a shit ton of that tech. Slide rules and big brains. Now we write code to steal other people’s money the most efficiently.

Video stolen without credit from @ revive.ur.ride on Instagram.

If someone told me their blinker motor went out, I would look at them like they were an idiot. Apparently I'm the dummy.

Beautiful…Mercury Cougar - it had sequential turn signals and hideaway headlights. It was know as the luxury version of the Mustang (built on the same frame and power train) and also marketed as “for the guy working his way up to a Thunderbird.”

The ignition (delco) works on the same principle

Back when I was a kid I figured out I could wire a series of DPDT relays such that #1 activated #2 which activated #3 which... Then, when #n activated it would de-activate #1 which would de-activate #2 which would ... until #n de-activated, which would re-activate #1 which would... Sounded like a little car engine running and, by changing the voltage up and down I could change the speed. Totally useless, but amusing at the time.

And it's still working 58 years later...

60yr old parts that still function…. Vs the current run of disposable vehicles that you rush to trade before 60k on the clock.

Planning ahead means having the fanciest tail light available post EMP...

Cougar

Wow that’s basically exactly what I did, 10 years old in 1973, to make sequenced lights chase around the perimeter of a flying saucer in a school production of “Salad Days”. I used a length of broomstick with thumb tacks joined by thin wire, and a comb of copper fingers, one for each bulb. In retrospect I should have made it hand cranked, but I used an electric motor speed controlled by a Hornby train controller rheostat (forwards and backwards) driving through gears of an old alarm clock, using empty ballpoint pen refills as drive shafts. It did work, but was delicate.

Biggest advantage of analog (electronic) technology like this is that it’s immediately comprehensible. With digital nobody understands nothing

I had a 1968 Mercury Cougar with these sequential lights. The front headlights also had a pneumatic lid. Super cool for the era.

If yall like blinkers, do I have the video for you

Most of the automation in factories was controlled by motor driven adjustable cams back in that day as well

We basically do that in software now with a sequencer. Same concept. Some PLC software is actually set up to duplicate the drum sequencer function.

Reminds me of the electromechanical systems in old pinball machines! Love it!

We had a 1967 or 1968 Cougar. Great car. Loved those sequential signals.

67 Cougar, NICE

Looks like a Mercury cougar. Some day, I hope soon, this new generation will realize AI and modern tech is actually NoT better 😉

Cool! That's what my '68 Cougar had!

Looks a lot like hvac components we get overcharged for today…

I had a '67 Cougar. This device was a bit finicky and would regularly seize up. So, I'd take it apart and lube it with graphite and get it going again for a while. Rinse and repeat. But it was a cool car!

Very easy to debug :)