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Fireman61341 wrote:Around here all the Thunderbolts have the blowers and controls about half way up the pole. There's a Tbolt 25 miles west of here in Peru that has the blower on the ground inside a green cabinet that's about 3 times the size of the blower, there's no controls on the pole so I'm assuming they must be in the cabinet too.

Yeah i'm also interested, do you think you can get a piture?

EL1998P71 wrote:That may be another gasoline powered T-bolt?
Any Pic's?

I BET IT IS!!!! A 3000, maybe? If so, the housing should split open lengthwise for access, as opposed to the electric ones on which the whole housing lifts off in 1 piece. Also there should be an exhaust pipe

Charles

If you're using steel pipe for the standpipe, the extra length costs considerably more...you also would have been paying for additional steel brackets with the longer standpipe.

Ben

3000?! From what I recall, the Gas Powered T-Bolts were 2000s. We got to get pics of the one in question.

When we installed a Thunderbolt T-1000/1003 we always tried to use a ground level concrete pad for the blower and ran the blower pipe in PVC until the last 20 feet....then steel so it balanced out the torque from the rotator box and head....The pad mounting eliminated any problems with vibration and made servicing easy....The covers could be padlocked down and we never seemed to have any vandalism with HIGH VOLTAGE SIGNS ON THE RIGS...

We had some roof mounts but they always had to be treated special since vibration was a consideration to cause leaks over time in the roof surface...unless we could get to structural members to create a platform...and they also required steel pipe for blower risers to hold the weight and torque for the chopper/rotator/horn/solenoid head assembly..and sometimes even guy wires for support....

We used Uni-Strut cut to 12-18 inch lengths and drilled to accomodate thru bolts for adjustment to and from the pole and Uni Strut clamps for 4 inch PVC/Steel to adjust sideways for alignment....by using this setup we could get a straight blower feed riser even though the pole shrinks as it goes higher....

500 AT fan wrote:3000?! From what I recall, the Gas Powered T-Bolts were 2000s. We got to get pics of the one in question.

I think you're right. It is a 2000 I was thinking of; no 3000.

Charles

EL1998P71 wrote:That may be another gasoline powered T-bolt?
Any Pic's?

I thought about that before, but I didn't think the cabinet was big enough to be a 2000 from the pictures I've seen of them here. I don't get over that way very much, but if I do I'll try to get a pic. If any of the Illinois guys here want to hunt it down, it's at the south end of the Peru Mall at the corner of 36th St. and Rt. 251. That's at exit 75 off of I-80 1/2 mile or so south of the interstate (about 75 miles SW of Chicago). I don't know why they would have a gas T bolt, but I guess it's possible. I was there a few weeks ago and thought it was a little strange that there were no controls (or any boxes at all) on the pole like the others around here. It's been there as long as I can remember, at least 30 years. The 1st Tue. at 10am is the statewide test I think that's when they test it.