W.S. Darley & Co. of Chicago Type 7TT blast

Pulled the shroud off to check how it was doing, re oil the bearings, re adjust the belt, get pictures of the guts for sipex, etc.

[@Golddoubloonsirens]

Kind of cool how it's belt driven.

[@HSETM]

The sounds of when the motor starts up.

[@positionlightproductions6187]

belt slipping

[@zachzebra56]

​@@positionlightproductions6187Reminds me of my high schools wood dust collector when it had a very worn out belt. They make some pretty interesting noises when they slip.

[@grovecitysirens_GCS]

Why dont you use the original motor

[@positionlightproductions6187]

Don't have 3 phase and I don't know if it works since there was a rat nest where the bearings are.

[@grovecitysirens_GCS]

@@positionlightproductions6187 can't you send it to a repair shop

[@cooldomino1800]

It looks 1 phase.

[@positionlightproductions6187]

It has a GE 3 phase motor, which looked single phase but wasn't. The older federal signal (well, federal sign and signal) sirens had these