HDN wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:08 am

Nice find! That should be a fun project. Any motor in mind for it?

A period correct 3 ph 5hp motor was donated by a fellow enthusiast who does not use the internet.

Update, got the bearing caps off, what do ya know, sleeve bearings like a small block chevy 🤣. Everything appears to be in good shape with the exception of the rear rotor. I was actually able to get it spinning, though with the damage to the rear rotor hub it definitely rubs. Next step will be remov...

So I looked up both addresses from the pictures on google maps and looked through street view to find that the timeline didn't show those sirens throughout all views. Not to mention that those two were not even 2 miles away from each other. So just to ask, when do you think those got removed? 1st b...

With a little help from my wife, the Denver Quadruplex siren I had shipped to my employer in Michigan was loaded on a trailer and brought home this past weekend. And so begins the long awaited restoration of an ancient patriarch. Denver Siren Builder: Dillon-Box Iron Works Model: 5HP Quadruplex Seri...

Below is a link to a Siren Misconceptions thread that was created in 2020, but then locked in 2021 after it ran its course: https://airraidsirens.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25895&hilit=siren+misconceptions That thread was locked by someone who is no longer an admin for that very reason. He deci...

SentryDefender1275 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 07, 2023 11:22 am

Don’t mean to Bump, but they Recently put an FC on the siren now, now it’s tested the First Wednesday at either 10AM or 11AM

Bumps are always welcome when they involve a positive status update about a siren believed to be dead.

First of all, it's "siren", not "cyrin". Second, you're actually seeing the only set of ports. For some reason, a large number of these "flattened bird house" style Federal Signals had the core (the siren inside the housing) flipped upside down. I believe this was done ...

So I looked up both addresses from the pictures on google maps and looked through street view to find that the timeline didn't show those sirens throughout all views. Not to mention that those two were not even 2 miles away from each other. So just to ask, when do you think those got removed? Being...

Beginning around 1940, a hand full of electric sirens began to crop up around Maryland. Prime examples of thes sirens are Easton, MD, Odenton, MD, and Boonton, TWP, NJ. Photos of Odenton, MD pictured here received_1263520214557935.jpeg received_1219647531943272.jpeg Until recently, some of us though...

ThePantherTaro812 wrote: ↑

Tue May 16, 2023 7:19 am

Muncie had a Denver!?

Yes, it was located at the Whitley Malleable Castings Co. Research shows the Whitley family was very cult-like, even going as far as creating it's own little family community on the outskirts of Muncie.