SD-10 UPDATE *1/22* *Almost complete!*

[Allertor113]

Finally after 4-5 years of wanting to get a siren I finally was able to get this beauty. She is a 60's? Federal Sign & Signal SD-10A, She didn't come with a housing, She came with the core and a pole mount. The stator has slight surface rust and everything else is in damn good shape.

















Heres a video dillon and I spinning it up by hand, before we got the intake tube off, which by the way was a MOTHER to get off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WtE1ACiYjE

[Mysterious T-Bolt 111]

Congratulations on acquiring a SD-10 Rhett! 8)

[TimeAttack]

congrats Rhett!

[dilloncarpenter]

I took the pics btw. I can't believe that thing had a perfectly balanced rotor!

[kx250rider]

Congratulations, and I'm amazed at how you got that thing in the back of a passenger car! How'd you lift it in & out?

Charles

[Rick K]

I'm glad I could help you get your first siren!

[Allertor113]

oh yeah! Thank you so much Rick seriously you have no clue!

and Charles, the people at the farm with the siren loaded it with a tractor and my dad and uncle got it out.

Heres a video of the loading.

http://qik.com/video/67d0f72aa825416babb3755c8e897e0f

They are ontop of the damned Ozark mountains!

[Bryan]

Thats the guy I got my Thunderbolt from.. the truck is the one i remember for sure! Congrats on getting the SD-10 head

[Rick K]

oh yeah! Thank you so much Rick seriously you have no clue!
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You're welcome Rhett!!! I remember how excited I was when I got my first siren (the STH-10) last November...and here I am now with 5 sirens! It's an ADDICTING hobby!

Enjoy that thing, and watch your fingers! The 3T22 bit me once, with the rotor barely turning at all (and it hurt).

-Rick

[kx250rider]

oh yeah! Thank you so much Rick seriously you have no clue!

and Charles, the people at the farm with the siren loaded it with a tractor and my dad and uncle got it out.

Heres a video of the loading.

http://qik.com/video/67d0f72aa825416babb3755c8e897e0f

They are ontop of the damned Ozark mountains!

That's how we unloaded my first one (all in one piece). The one I got on eBay last year was apart (Motor, rotor and stator all together, but intake and housing off). That one, the seller and I heaved it into the back of the truck by hand, and that was no easy task (both of us are weightlifters too).

I'm dying to know the actual weight of an SD-10, since I've been bragging about deadlifting mine, and been saying 500 lbs +/-. The specs show 570-595 lbs complete with housing, but the housing only weighs 60 or 80 lbs, I'd say. We have a horse scales, and if I get a chance, I'll get an accurate weight.

*I cheated on the deadlift... It was from knee-height; not the ground

Charles