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Konky 5000 wrote:By the way, by the 99c store, a..umm...SD-10 painted hot pink?! Does anyone have a picture? 8) :lol: :P

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Konky 5000 wrote:By the way, by the 99c store, a..umm...SD-10 painted hot pink?! Does anyone have a picture? 8)

Yes, it is Siren #120, go to:

http://wirechief.com/sirens/120.htm

Thank you, L.A.

Are those sirens dual-tone?

Is it the same rotor/stator as the bottom of a 2t22?

Looks like a very efficient design.

Who would have painted it pink?

robert gift wrote:Thank you, L.A.

Are those sirens dual-tone?

Is it the same rotor/stator as the bottom of a 2t22?

Looks like a very efficient design.

Who would have painted it pink?

To be honest with you, I'm not sure if they're dual tone or not, but the sound rating is higher than the others the city used.

I have no idea who would have painted that particular siren, or if was even authorized or what. Besides that one, I have found some others that were painted as well. (not counting grafitti'd ones)

#124 had been painted in it's original colors, I suspect by the firefighters in the now-abandoned fire station adjacent to it. (Their ladder truck probably came in handy!)

#153 and #187 were painted white. A nice job, so I suspect that these were done "officially".

#175 has been painted a nice shade of green, probably to match the tower it's mounted on.

#210 is in such good shape, it had to have been painted at some time during it lifetime.

And, of course, there was the famous #4, decorated at a cost of $20,000 to look like a giant daffodil! Unfortunately, it's now gone. The story of this transformation is on my site, under "articles".

Photos of these and others can be seen on my site at www.wirechief.com/sirens/

Dennis

Nice Web site. Thank you

(Lowlife scum L.A. Times wants you to PAY to read their articles.)

$20K for that "daffodil"?!!
I should be such an "artist"

But I thought he was painting that siren (like #120 -whatever it is)
to look like a flower. That would be easy.

Maybe someone in L.A. maintenence had that pink paint and wanted to make a statement.

I'm considering painting a 2t22 like a flower.
(Uh-oh, do I see -75?)

The siren in the picture of that number is most likely a 500T, in not a 500.

Oh, Thanks Peter.

So 500Ts look like flowers? I can remember that.
Made by Federal Signal?

Would be nice if someone had a site showing all the sirens with model numbers, tones, etc.

Yes, the 500, -T and -AT are made by the Fed. Sig. company. I don't really see them as flowers, though.

SirenMadness wrote:Yes, the 500, -T and -AT are made by the Fed. Sig. company. I don't really see them as flowers, though.

What do "T" and "AT" mean?

Aren't they the ones with the large reflector (o) around the stator?
Or have I looked at the wrong picture?
(It was the pink one.)

Thanks, Peter.

The "T" in this situation stands for Two-tone. Only 500s and 500Ts have the shallow projector. The 500ATs have the longer projector, and they're all dual-tone models, or at least it seems so.