The Siren Board

Hey all,

Finally done this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kYR5WbBrQk

Done it by connecting a nut driver socket to an electric drill and spin away!
Would have gone faster but was getting bit loud for comfort, will do one day though!

Dan.

Hey Dan, cool video there. It's nice to see that the siren's bearings are in great shape still and that it is balanced very well. It worked great for you, but just a note to others if the drill thing is tried- make sure you either use a ratchet-type connector or a drill that will allow for free spinning once power is removed. If you don't, once the power is taken away you could easily break your wrist or have other injuried from the drill being locked to the rotor and spinning around.

Very nice Cant wait untill you hook up some power to that beast!

I'm glad to see someone else is doing stuff like that.
I used my rechargable Makita sidewinder to twist-up
my 2t22. It got it up to a decent RPM too.

Now you next step is to attach your weed eater engine to it.

I highly recommend that you not do this, especially by hand. A few of us have learned the painful way that you cannot be too careful around these sirens, even at extremely low RPM. Adam Pollak has some good emergency room photos to back that up.

In the first thread about spinning it manually, Adam Pollak already showed us the "bloody finger" photo along with the quote "keep your fingers out of the ports"

Now all you need to do is find some hearing protection and carefully wind it up to full speed (or at least as fast as you can take it)

When I chopped my finger, my fingers were not near the ports at the time. I was spinning a Sentry 10V by hand and my finger got caught in one of the impeller vanes which drew it to the port. The rotor came to a sharp halt on my finger and I had to spin it backwards to release my finger as it had penetrated the skin on both sides and broke the bone all the way through. I've spun up so many sirens by hand before, but you can't keep your hand from slipping. It's not worth the risk.

Hook up a Carter at home? Even in England three-phase power is hard to come by, and it would take a good amount of electricity to spin that thing on a phase converter. Not to mention the police may not be very kind of people sounding off an old air-raid siren at home.

That is the eeriest sound I have ever heard. It may be extremely dangerous, but that tone's lowness is unsettling and amazing.