There's just nothing like demonstration uponm demonstration of the complete lcak of competence of government at all levels. More and more engineers + more and more computers, and we evolve the ability to screw up everything at much higher cost. And yet, in 1955 this task could be done by a handfull ...

Sometimes in the winter the timer would stick, and somebody would have to run across the street, open the lid and "give it a whack" :shock: to get it to finish the cycle (we're not hillbillies, I swear.) . I don't know if that's true but I'll try to find out for sure, maybe Franz or someo...

We now certainly have enough misinformation in this thread to get somebody's fingers blown off. The spagettibowl mounted on the board in the picture was probably wired up by somebody following a drawing they got from a plant electrician someplace, who thought they had to route the wires the way they...

You could always tell them the man who wrote the book on Sterlings said they should do it because it might fail as it is now. Or you could go with the thing being a Museum Piece and deserving to be as close to original as possible. Or, you could tell them the TimeO Matics that came along later to re...

Well, what you have yourself there is a genuine Sterling Fire Alarm siren controller, probably manufactured on South Plymouth Ave in Rochester NY. The electric motor driving it is not original and the homemade pully damn well ain't original. Other than that, you have one damn fine antique that will ...

Notice down in the lower left corner of the page the word TYCO. TYCO is an abbreviation for All Crap All the Time. They will market the hell out of anything they can glom onto for a short period, sell whatever number of units they can, and then dump the product line completely. TYCO also owns Simple...

SORRY, let me try again here is the Link http://blog.mlive.com/citpat_history/2008/01/tornado_sirens_grew_out_of_col.html ""The warning device was mounted on the roof near the observation tower, a wartime lookout station used to scout for the enemy. "" An interesting comment on ...

The Rochester Chrysler has moved across the street and been placed atop another municipal building. It has also been painted bright red. Rochester has no intrest in either restoring the machine or preserving it beyond putting red paint on it. Current pictures of the machine are at the end of this ar...

Most likely, bearings. 2nd most likely, high degree of slip in the motor because the rotor was machined slightly undersized on Friday afternoon. Loss of voltage to the motor on starting generally isn't a problem unless you're dropping 20% from nameplate. Single? -v- 3? isn't a factor since the littl...

MY SPIES SENT ME THIS Robert probably doesn't want to see it, oh well Gift panned by critics Critics were to say the least disturbed by tonight's performance. One soloist, Robert Gift cranked away at some mechanicle contrivance left over from a World War Air Raid bringing pain to the audience. Calli...