Stormsetter4 wrote:I really do hope you were wearing a respirator when you were using a wire wheel on that. The older thunderbolts like that had lead paint, which is very toxic and hazardous.

I knew about the lead paint and yes we were all wearing industrial respirators when we were working on it, don't worry.

I have an update for everyone!
I have stripped the paint off the siren, rotator, chopper, and control boxes and today I sprayed primer on everything and did the first coat of paint.
Imgur album:
http://imgur.com/a/wrWDK

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. Don't have...

Never seen a yellow 612 before. Really interesting.

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...

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?

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 t...

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

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.

What is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwNy7IsajLI