American Restoration- Air Raid Siren

American Restoration "Duck and Cover"
restoring a Federal thunderbolt 1000T, 5/6 ratio
Season 2, episode 3

facts:
the horn actually weighs around 50-60lbs
whole unit weighs(no blower) weighs around 150lbs
this siren is missing the key part that makes it loud, there is no blower, without the blower throwing 250CFM at 6.5PSI, you can hear it only about 1/4 mile, if that, with the blower, you can hear it 2-3 miles radius

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[RBNightlinger]

Is it even be legal to have this thing going off? Might cause mass heart attacks in the senior community who remember that noise and what it meant (like me!).

[hooterchicksarehot]

@RBNightlinger its 100% legal to own them, to sound them off, it depends on where you live, check with your local authority and ask if you can sound off, outdoors, for this specific siren, since its missing a key part (the blower) you can sound this in your garage and no one can hear outside

[Thewoog34]

My dad has no clue about sirens like I do, so when I was saying out loud while watching this "they're only visually upgrading this, they aren't doing anything with the motor or rotor/chopper? What about the blower?" and when the guy said "this is gonna be LOUD" I said "no it's not, it doesn't have a blower..."

They only visually restored this one and completely ignored the guts. He didn't even know what this siren is called.

[hooterchicksarehot]

@Thewoog34 i said pretty much the exact thing lol they had no clue what the parts are/what it needs to function, it would be alot louder if they added a hole in the standpipe to allow air to flow in but nothing compared to with the blower on. heck i could of done a better job and focused on the important parts (copper, motor, etc)

[TheJoebassrat]

If they thought the TBolt was huge...I wanna see their reaction to a P-50!

[AngusVFF]

No Blower?

[ADSOR97]

that guy is murl from walking dead

[ADSOR97]

If I was to set off an air raid alarm nowadays after that new terrorist/civilian bill came into action

you could be sentenced as a terrorist trying to inspire mass panic or something

[fanmegaman]

I would love to see them restore a Chrysler air raid siren, now that would be a challenge ;)

[LNERMallard]

"If this thing worked right now, you could hear it for 10 miles." lol dumbass. Not without the blower, you aren't!

[4515jonny]

Next thing you know it will be going off on december 21, 2012

[darian25804]

Ran out of comment space but if you want to hear the siren the way it should sound look up "Moore highschool thunderbolt" by me darian25804

[darian25804]

I could go off on a siren enthusiast critique essay but I'm going to calm down and and tell you why 1:you can't hear a thunderbolt from 40 miles away 2: it's not going to be loud at all because you forgot the blower and by drilling it to the concrete ou basically sealed off all airflow to the stator chopper assembly,and by only running it off 120v which is chopper level 1 which is quiet. But I have to give props for getting the recording right.

[morrisonj123]

Silent Hill??? 13:10