r/TornadoSirens

As of recent I have been persistently bullied over the restoration of my siten by a enthusiast by the name of "the siren man 2015" who claims that I am restoring my siren wrong because I haven't taken the rotor out of it, he also claims I spray painted inside of the sirens motor despite me not and it not even being paint. Let me just stress real quick how hard it is to take the rotor out of a bullard siren, first you have to take both bearing caps out, unscrew the shaft from the top, somehow get a ratchet that hooks from the front, stick that in the ports of the stator and turn the very weirdly shaped bolts out while not knowing if it's stripped or not, then you would have to take the top of the motor off which requires you to take four bolts out, as well as a pressure fit cap off, and then you take the entire shaft out before taking the rotor off, and all of this to get to a place which serves no significance what so ever, in fact all the stuff that was in there came out one day when we tested it. So in conclusion I'm not sure what to do, and I really just need some other people to understand what's going on right now. And please, does anyone know who this guy is?

(Don’t mind the text i blocked that is my real name)

Here is a list of all of them:

ACA P-10, I still have it and it is a beast! Credit to Haroldhihat

ACA Cyclone 125: I have it but it's extremely quiet compared to the P-10

Model 2: I scrapped it after it's motor was damaged after it fell off of a shelf 🤦

H.O.R Super Sirex NO-15: Scrapped after rotor scrapping and motor burnout

PTR French siren: I scrapped it after not being able to run a efficient power supply to it. The motor still remains

Realistic Sentry 3v8: Still have it, and it is amazing

Modulator 1004: School project that is using Bluetooth speakers. It's the first speaker siren I made ever

Decot 10/6: Custom made siren that I 3d modeled, scrapped and the motor was put into the Model 2

Model 5: Scrapped due to age and motor failure

STL-10A: Still being 3d printed and I have a bit to work on.

ACA Banshee/ASC OM-127: Gave it as a gift to my friend and he still has it

ACA Screamer: Scrapped after the motor randomly burned out. I have no idea why

Unrealistic 3v8: My first mini siren. I still have most of the parts but the stator.

I’ve finally achieved a goal of mine and got my hands on this dual tone Thunderbolt. This is my first Tbolt and I’m so excited to get it ready for siren-con!

As you can see in the pictures, it’s in pretty good condition (at least I think so) but at some point someone installed 3 pronged plugs on the chopper and rotator wires.

The guy I got the siren from didn’t know very much about it, all he could tell me is that he believes it’s from the Louisville Ky system. He also said that the changes to the wiring were done before he got it.

I haven’t been able to get any further information about the siren from the previous owner and so, here I am asking you guys…

Does anyone recognize this TBolt?

other info

It looks like the rotator motor isn’t original

The blower motor is missing

The back corner of the rotator box is dented

Appears to be single phase, came with the RCM1B pictured

I didn’t take a picture of them, but still has the original diagrams on the inside of the door of the RCM

Still mounted to the wood pallet like structure with the original wheels

I captured this video just a few minutes ago while on layover on my city bus route. I've heard the test multiple times, but never saw the actual siren in action until today