The great Thunderbolt project (updated 9/30/13)

[dilloncarpenter]

I can't believe the same Thunderbolt that I saw all the time as a kid, always pointing the same direction with a leaning pole, is getting re-installed across the country.

[1000chb385]

This is very good news for Upson county, and they've hired a very talented man for the job, i must say! No city or company should be scrapping any sirens-- Restore/REUSE before recycle.

Go to your local scrap yard and ask them to call you if anything big and yellow arrives Offer twice the scrap value..

[woodyrr]

It's funny, but I wish there was a way to figure out which head came from a given location.

I know where the first Norman Thunderbolt I saw is located now, but I would like to know where the fire station 4 and Shadow Lake Thunderbolts are. I saw the 36th and Indian Hills Thunderbolt almost every Sunday for years and I'm sure it will be going back up soon.

[Bryan]

It's funny, but I wish there was a way to figure out which head came from a given location.

I know where the first Norman Thunderbolt I saw is located now, but I would like to know where the fire station 4 and Shadow Lake Thunderbolts are. I saw the 36th and Indian Hills Thunderbolt almost every Sunday for years and I'm sure it will be going back up soon.

I think Ian and I figured out which units went where, and know where each one went specifically. I think we made a map let me look and see.

[holler]

Actually that blower is from Indian hills.

[Bryan]

The Indian Hills head was the one that was pretty much toast wasn't it? I think thats the one Ian said must have been faced the same way for a longtime before it was brought down and put in the boneyard.

[SirenTech Ind.]

Jeb, how do you keep all those pesky flies away during paint drying?

[holler]

I don't, I have to pick them out before the paint dries.

[holler]

Pictures of this weekends progress:

Panorama of the siren and the rathole I have for a shop:





Ian working on the chopper:

[holler]

Got it out of the shop and loaded on the trailer to be hauled to a Fire/public safety event at The Rock Ranch Saturday. Going to put the decals on it this afternoon and the screen in the horn.