Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:06 am
IF you get it, keep it a 1000 like it is and leave the paint alone. I'd just do a restoration on the chopper motor and rotator mechanisms and leave the rest the way it is.
Making it into a genuine 1003 would be too troublesome. You'd need to make the bow tie solenoid housing, collector rings, a taller rotator housing and a taller pipe on the inside of the rotator to make room to accommodate the collector rings and terminals to deliver power to the solenoids, and even a slightly longer horn support since the solenoid housing would move the horn out a few inches. Then you'd need to find the solenoids and a dual-tone rotor.
Federal Signal Model 2-240, Thunderbolt 1000AT, 3T22A
Federal Sign and Signal Model A
Federal Electric Type B
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