New Years Eve 2009-10 Cold War air raid sirens sounded at midnight in Ventura County, CA

[legomn54321]

it sounds like your 1000T is having bearing issues...it's jumpy on the wind-down from the attack cycles in the same jumpy pattern every time.

[kx250rider661]

@legomn54321 You're correct... In fact, the chopper quit altogether, and I need to take it apart and see what happened. I suspect a bad collector ring brush, etc. Been too busy to mess with it, but I plan to do that soon.

[GingerFish12]

10,000 dogs just shit themselves 

[Thewoog34]

Nice to see someone with a privately owned 4/5 port Tbolt!

[MegaCophater]

myself, i own the sirens in my town, every year new years, i sound them for how many years, from year 2000, they are a mix of STL-10 and STH-10, and hell, it's loud being in the center of them all, and after they all complete the cycles, the partying begins!

[iwantthatfoot]

:) i loved it i wish you more happiness

[residentevilfan1928]

Does ur wife think ur an ass?

[kx250rider661]

@residentevilfan1928 She loves me for it!

[residentevilfan1928]

@kx250rider661 o

[ALLERTORLOVER69]

sparky

[gameexpert385]

0:41  Zappity zap zap

[justwired]

sounds like ur thunderbolt windsdown to much to me

[MKIIProductions]

That a low tone 5?

[MrSciencetificsasuke]

are you going to do it this year again

[MrSciencetificsasuke]

are those sparks normal?

awesome i so want to do that some time

[kx250rider661]

That Model 5 is an early version low-tone, and I think it's running a bit slow due to the brushes not being worn in yet. Plenty of sparks. On the dual tone T-Bolt, it does have new chopper bearings, but I have it set on a low tap. The fault in the attack wail cycle is due to bad timing, which I need to fool around with.

[rhett443]

Has a a wierd attack, is the Ar timer messed up or have you just not set it?

[crazywarriorman]

Gotta love low tone model 5's.

[Jpressman8]

Great video Charles. I think you're right about the brushes in the 5. I put new brushes in my electric impact gun about a month ago which is much smaller than the 5 ,but they arced quite a bit when they were new. They settled in about 2 weeks later.

[EvanToTheFutureDude]

Nice video! Happy New Year. :)

[russelD9]

happy new year is the model 5 looks grate the light is bright coming from the motor

[kx250rider661]

It's making too much arcing & sparking from the motor. I'm not sure why, because the armature is sharp & clean, and the brushes are in excellent shape. It could be that the brushes aren't broken in yet, as the wear pattern on them is only a small area in the middle.

Charles

[hootergirlsrhot]

@kx250rider661 sometimes, when the commutator and brushes are great and their arching , sometimes the brushes have to be warn down a bit (let motor run for a while) and that should do the trick most of the time

i'm sure you got that repaired by now

[railfan95]

I guess that Model 5 is a sight & sound package!