Make an Electric Cigar-Lighter for Your Automobile

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A cigar-lighter for your auto can be made by using a few odds and ends such as a blown-out plug fuse, a burned-out electric-iron heating element, an ordinary lamp socket, and a few feet of lamp cord.

Remove the cover from the plug and clean out the burned-fuse wire. Take 4 in. of resistance wire from the old heating element and fasten one end of it to the inside of the plug. Get a piece of mica and wind the heating wire with the mica in a spiral that will be close to the top of the plug. Solder the other end of the wire to the other contact of the plug.

Connect one end of the lamp cord with an ordinary socket and attach the other end to the dash, connecting it with the car`s electric system and a switch as most convenient. Screw the fuse plug into the socket, turn on current, and you have your lighter.

For a 12-volt battery use 6 in. of the heating element.

By J. Remonte.

We found this DIY workshop in the magazine Popular Science Monthly from 1922. Although we are not so sure if you should really install one in your pre-war, as we are not pro-smoking (and health and safety wise). But we rather liked the explanation, as these electric cigar-lighters can be found in modern cars (in a more professional version of course).

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