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Uploaded by on Apr 13, 2008

1924 Gamewell fire alarm box demonstration. Unit has been modified to accept bell and light with 6 volt lantern battery.

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  • How did you get the light to blink the box number? My firebox circuit is normally closed, and opens momentarily to ring the bell.

  • I had to rewire the mechanism to get normally open at rest and momentarily closed when the actuator hits the teeth on the number wheel.Just use your ohm meter to probe and find the needed circuit.I don't remember the locations I changed but I believe is was just 1 or 2. You must also grind down the long high section on the wheel or the bell will ring during that high section in addition the high points of the teeth, Good luck.

  • whats the voltage and amperage your using on this settup...i would like to do the same. thanks!

  • I am using an externally mounted 6V lantern battery

  • SAE strobe?

  • No just a simple light bulb.

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  • can this thing be modified to be a pullstation, or is it just a call-box?

  • My junior high school had those pull stations. The horns were very loud explosion-proof Federal Signal horns.

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  • @belve63 so if you pull it no fire department

  • @pivotous Coded pull station.

  • Why are they outside?

  • wait... so do the gamewells work today? or are they just for show now?

  • i seen one of these but someone stole the light off of it

  • Gamewell still makes mechanical call boxes.

  • These Boxes are great.. But they are suppose to be hooked up to a Diaphone horn that will blast across town the box #... Look up Diaphone horn on you tube for details! My town has 3 horns..one in each corner of the district.. They sound amazing when a box call comes in!

  • We have a gamewell box at my fire station...it isn't hooked up, its just the box...but it still ticks when you pull it

    

  • fire alarm in forest...lol.I hope it call forest fire dept. What usefulness?

  • @NipkowDisk Around Massachusetts they are still EVERYWHERE :)

    Well, a slightly more modern model than the one in this video anyway. There are two outside of my school alone.

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