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Re: Gresham, Oregon Fire Siren
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 7:36 pm
by coastalsyrolover
Daniel wrote:There are pairs of Buell horns at the fire stations in Amity and Millington (near Coos Bay), as well as a single one in Tygh Valley on a mechanic's garage that may have been a fire station. I suspect that these were bought from Portland's old system. These horns have two trumpets coming out of either side of a central diaphragm. Each horm had a 180° bend, and a second double horn was mounted above the first and turned 90° so the four horns pointed in four directions.
Sounds pretty. You had pictures of a couple of them right? Yea too bad only a few of them worked before the chryslers got put up. That's what years of neglect will do for you. (But you all already know that.
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Re: Gresham, Oregon Fire Siren
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 3:16 am
by Daniel
I've posted this before, but this is the single horn in Tygh Valley. The other sets have a second horn above the first, turned 90°.
Re: Gresham, Oregon Fire Siren
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 8:12 am
by coastalsyrolover
Did they have double diaphragms or just 1 for the 4 horns?
Re: Gresham, Oregon Fire Siren
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 5:23 pm
by Daniel
I don't know whether these have one diaphragm or two. The four-horned ones are just two of these stacked on top of each other.
Re: Gresham, Oregon Fire Siren
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 5:36 pm
by LukeH
Never heard of mounting a denver siren vertically. How was this done?
Re: Gresham, Oregon Fire Siren
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 4:58 am
by Daniel
They took a Denver siren and stood it on end, with the motor underneath, and mounted it to a tower.