IBM RVF-4015-6A + Simplex 4263-1 Pull

A vid of my IBM bell wired up to my Simplex 4263-1 pull station. I wish I could get a module that'll make the bell do single-stroke...

And yes, those are sparks you see coming from the contacts in the pull...

http://www.dan.calvinet.com/html/ibm_rvf-4015-6a.html
http://www.dan.calvinet.com/html/simplex__4263-10_.html

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Howto & Style

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• Fire
• Alarm
• Test
• IBM
• Bell
• Simplex
• Coded
• Pull
• Station

[ThePhantom710]

Schools need to invest in a more efficient warning system.

[weatherdan882002]

@ThePhantom710 Well, these alarms date back to the 1950s, not much "efficiency" was around back then...

[nicolaj0154]

i never knew that IBM also made fire alarms i thougt they only made computers.

[weatherdan882002]

@nicolaj0154 IBM made fire alarms and alarm systems from the 1930s through 1955, which is when they they sold their fire alarm and time clock product lines to Simplex.

[weatherdan882002]

@nicolaj0154 1958 actually

[megrune94]

We have bell alarms at my school.. It is so annoying when it rings because first you think it's recess, then you figure out that it lasts a bit longer and you have to gtfo of the building xD

[lkfcobra]

code 4 2 1

[zachmamaw]

@weatherdan882002 at my old apartment buliding theres one of these on the outside and inside the apartment a wheelock miz and out side a wheelock mt

[SantaFebuff]

My school has a few of these not hooked up by the Honeywood fire alarms. It also in some places has the Simplex 500 bell. IDK what it is.

[wileyk209zback]

@ilovepolice1 Couch was the original maker of them. Simplex and others rebranded them; I have the Simplex version, and inside it on the bottom I can see a Couch logo. Couch was bought out by Faraday in the late 1970s.

[thebiggreen101]

It does code 4-2-1

[ilovepolice1]

I have that coded pull station but its a couch!

[wileyk209zback]

UPDATE: I figured out how to test my Simplex 4263 pull; I did so using a Faraday 6020 and a Simplex 2901-9838. I also have a similar IBM bell to that, but it's 4016-6A instead of 4015-6A. Not sure if it's a misprint, or if it depends on how the bell is designed (mine has that "rain guard" thing and is on a backbox). They still have those same bells at one of the middle schools in my city, but I am not sure how much longer they'll be there as the school is to be renovated, possibly this summer