The Siren Board

I decided to go by this place, which is a graveyard of old sirens in Jefferson County, Alabama on the way home today. I do not wish to say where thia graveyard is in the county for privacy reasons. The county is NOT selling these sirens as they are being utilized to repair existing units. This is the yard where that kid screamed about a gridfaced Tbolt (no offence to him)

Here's the photos


^ 16/16 Sterling that was rusted shut


^ Some sirens


^The yellow 5 in the foreground was on the Brighton Police Station, I do believe


^ Rusted shut C series Thunderbolt. I am sure this was the siren from Charles A. Brown Elementary School.


^ More sirens


^ The side on a 60's thunderbolt rotator.


^ Gridfaced siren that a fellow user made famous


^ OMAIGAWD JAYELBUR THURNDARBERLT (I had to, sorry....)



^ An overview



^ The old Brown School siren


^ Leaning tower of Model 5


^ Model 5 army, with extra rust! The white one missing the upper part of the housing in the background was the 5T I spotted.


^ Another 5. I bet JeffCo got these alongside their first Thunderbolts in 1952-1953



^ 5s and a gutted Thunderbolt


^ An SD-10. That is a surprise.


^ Thunderbolts everywhere.

When i went there I wasn't even able to go in... As no one was there, that was a while ago, though. Not too hard to find this place.

Is the yellow Model 5/7 a 5/7T?

Nice pics man, now I can get an even better view of the lot.

Allenorgan42099 wrote:Is the yellow Model 5/7 a 5/7T?

Believe it is single tone. If you look in the 5th picture, you could see one row of ports. Although there could easily be a second row off ports.

Allenorgan42099 wrote:Is the yellow Model 5/7 a 5/7T?

It was a single tone one. There was a 5T WAAAAAAAAAY back in the trees though. I could barely make out the 9/12 rotor of it.

I would like to ask them what "existing units" they have in service that could be "repaired" by any of that junk?
I guess there could be a few usable motors in the those covered blowers and those rotator housings.
That looks like an entire system that was removed a heck of a long time ago.
It does look like they cannibalized some chopper motors but who knows how long ago that was.
From the looks of those rusted chopper tubes it looks like those choppers were removed many years ago.

CDV777-1 wrote:I would like to ask them what "existing units" they have in service that could be "repaired" by any of that junk?
I guess there could be a few usable motors in the those covered blowers and those rotator housings.
That looks like an entire system that was removed a heck of a long time ago.
It does look like they cannibalized some chopper motors but who knows how long ago that was.
From the looks of those rusted chopper tubes it looks like those choppers were removed many years ago.

They still retain 2 SD-10s and a lot of Tbolts. I doubt they're going to fix anything with the Sterling and Model 5s though