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Some guy on Google (Big Mouth Billy Bass of all names) is making slight remarks about Triumph motorcycles because of my heated jacket issue. He said Triumph sells smoke in jars to put back into the electrics and he "feels my pain."
Was he making slight remarks or just recalling the days of yore? Lucas lectrics are a major part of Triumph’s past!
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BRITISH ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING BASICS
THE SMOKE THEORY
A theory has recently been postulated a$$erting the
importance of smoke to the functioning of electrical
components. According to this theory, it is smoke which
makes components work...because every time you let the
smoke out of a component, it stops working. It seems this
claim has been verified through extensive field testing.
As with many great discoveries, this one had eluded
the great minds of our time by it’s very simplicity. Of course
smoke makes all things electrical work! Remember the last
time the smoke escaped from your radar? Didn’t it quit
working? On a system level, an aircraft wiring harness
carries smoke from one device to another, and when the
harness springs a leak, it lets the smoke out of everything all
at once and then nothing works. Some aircraft systems
require larger quantities of smoke to operate properly...
that’s why the wires going to them are so big.
Expanding this theory to the automotive industry, why
are Lucas electrical components more likely to leak smoke
than, say, Bosch or Delco? Aha! Lucas is British. Things
British always leak! British convertible tops leak water,
British engines leak oil, and British shock absorbers leak
fluid. Naturally, British electronics must leak smoke.
Electricity has always been something of a mystery to me. This makes it all clear.
Steve
Perhaps this guy was guessing that a bit a humor was in order, assuming you knew about such past Theories? 
Blowing gravel off rural roads
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