Got a historical one for you all, which I've never seen before. Browsing eBay out of boredom, found this: http://imgur.com/qMXBQft Detailed as a Chicago Civil Defence photo, '43 era, testing their 'new' air raid siren. Dated May 21 1943. If I remember correctly, Chicago also had a few Chrysler's flo...

I believe that'd be the Fire Rescue boys, as there is an RFS station along the highway there.

I'm not sure, but I don't think it's from Federal or Whelen. I could be wrong. I'm taking my secondary brigade's heavy tanker (similar to this ) to a driving and response course this weekend so I'll grab a few pictures of it for you guys, including the control panels. The siren and lights systems a...

Those ones are littered throughout the state for those stations that have yet to remove them. I don't believe they're actually used any more (maybe the Victorian Royal Commission will change that) and are typically only found at Fire and Rescue NSW stations, very rarely found at Rural Fire Service s...

loukycheckinin wrote:Justin, I used to use headphones, but after surfing Youtube, all the volumes are different, and I turn it up to hear one and the next one kills my ear drum. Not pleasant!

Ah, yes. This is true. Didn't think of that, have been painfully caught out by this myself from time to time.

Headphones are a wonderful investment...

Although in this case...

Excellent!

Probably something from Grifco, seeing that OH&S legislation would require some form of audible warning for those outdoors.

CDV777-1 wrote:Hint. I just bought two small dual shaft motors off of ebay.

Carter? Then again, that might be easier.

I'd be leaning towards the eight port 7V8 personally. You'd think the rotor would be designed to run at 100% duty cycle (DC), where the impellers can suck up more air since it would be working twice as hard (or presumably moving twice as fast) as 16-port 7V8 working at 50% DC. Thinking about this a ...