The Siren Board

Valtonus wrote:Aside from the blower, how did you get the head off the roof?

Honestly I don't know, my dad did all that stuff, but I think we put the siren parts into the elevator and sent the elevator to the bottom floor to reload

CrazyCalvinWilliams wrote:

Valtonus wrote:Aside from the blower, how did you get the head off the roof?

Honestly I don't know, my dad did all that stuff, but I think we put the siren parts into the elevator and sent the elevator to the bottom floor to reload

Then maybe I still have a chance at that tbolt 1000 on the Cleveland county court clerk if that is the case. That is a long shot though. But that is a interesting way to do it though!

Howdy everyone, I am back with some updates!
I never did get the blower, and I never will because it is seized beyond repair, so I'm looking for a blower and a control panel as of now.

Today I also started to strip the paint off the horn, and I'll post before and after pics when I'm done.

The siren will honestly probably not be put back to working conditions and I'll probably keep it as a display piece

Good luck finding a blower... I've even been trying to find one for rent... Nope... As for the RCM1 cabinet they appear every once in a while... You can take an extension chord with no female end and use wire connectors into a surge protector (keep off while wiring and unwiring.) if you just want to run the chopper a few times every once in a while.

coastalsyrolover wrote:Good luck finding a blower... I've even been trying to find one for rent... Nope... As for the RCM1 cabinet they appear every once in a while... You can take an extension chord with no female end and use wire connectors into a surge protector (keep off while wiring and unwiring.) if you just want to run the chopper a few times every once in a while.

I've been going to local flea markets and antique malls for the RCM because I've seen them before at the antique places and at the Springfield flea market a few years ago I saw a Model 2 but it was rusted out and the louvers were beaten badly.

So far, I currently have:
Siren head
Rotator
Chopper
Control BOX

I need:
The controls
Blower
Something to mount the siren on

Cleaned off the name tag today and I can read it now. All it says is
1000 T129 60 3 440. What does this mean?

I believe this means type 1000 (obviously), 440 volts, 3 phase, 60 cycles. The T 129 is a serial number. The thing that seems odd to me is seeing a 440 volt Thunderbolt.

Chicagosiren-hunters wrote:I believe this means type 1000 (obviously), 440 volts, 3 phase, 60 cycles. The T 129 is a serial number. The thing that seems odd to me is seeing a 440 volt Thunderbolt.

Yeah, 440 volts seemed odd to me too. But doesn't that also translate to "I could never power this thing no matter how badly I wanted to" anyways? The only place I have high voltage wiring at is on my back patio, we removed our old hot tub after it crapped out, and there's a big thick wire sticking out of the floor (obviously shut off at it's external breaker) that carries 240 volts but I can't tell how many phases it's got.

So does T-129 mean I own the 129th Jailbar ever made or something? Can I tell what year the siren is from with this?

The only thing that would be 440 is the blower and rotator motor. And those would just have the motors wired for 440. The chopper will be a regular old thunderbolt chopper. It would be interesting to see the rcm that came with it. The chopper transformer should be different in a 440 rcm.