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68jk09

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The NY Bent Tip www.ebay.com/itm/New-York-Bent-Tip-Brass-Nozzle/331134183161?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.RVI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131017132637%26meid%3D5128422767152901733%26pid%3D100033%26prg%3D20131017132637%26rk%3D0%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D331134183161 ....still in use mostly as a drinking fountain...if you do get called on to use it for the initial purpose ....remember.... using it in a reverse roof cockloft Fire or a ballon construction Fire situation or a motor Fire under a Subway Car after power removal ...etc... etc.... always brace it against a structural member OPPOSITE the direction of the Nozzle....simple to do if you have tried the concept otherwise you may look like a "hound XXXXXXX a jug"....maybe another subject for an on hands Drill ?

 
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68jk09 said:
POST TYPE ALARM BOX ....SELLER STATES IT IS ALUMINUM BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT WAS JUST PAINTED SILVER....  (JOR any thoughts ?)..... http://www.ebay.com/itm/NYFD-Aluminum-Fire-Alarm/261425656600?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.RVI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131017132637%26meid%3D5636110264228750900%26pid%3D100033%26prg%3D20131017132637%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D261425645223
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Chief, That is a single action type Pull Box without the spade handle guard.The Frame looks like it was sanded down or painted as opposed to the Hindges and spade handle that were not.The raised letters give it credence as a legitimate head but I believe it was put together with spare pieces,  JMO here and it is not aluminum it is cast iron. The only aluminum Box the FDNY ever had was an NJR post
 
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FDNY installed whistles on apparatus during WWII war years.  Units would respond with whistles instead of using sirens which might be confused with air raid sirens.  My father had a WWII-vintage rig with whistle in E 246/E327/L169 in old Sheepshead Bay firehouse.  Unit also used whistle to acknowledge attractive women.
 
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H & L 159 had a Buckeye Exhaust Whistle Installed on their 1948 WLF. There was a Lieutenant that loved it. I was riding back to their qtrs with that Lt. and my Father was driving. You could only toot the whistle when changing gears. It was hooked up to the cab with a sash chain through the floor boards my Father would change the gears and the Lt. had me pull the chain. The siren was on the dash you pulled out the piano wire and the siren  went off when the wire went back into the dash you pulled it again. It's one of those things you never forget I remember it like it happened yesterday.
 
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Buckeyes were used first during WWI (1918).

They were used again during the early Korean War for the last time. I remember them well. I don't agree with the description "shrill", which connotes high pitched. It was not like the shrill whistles on steam pumpers. Harsh and coarse would be better adjectives, almost like clearing your throat...but very very loud..
 
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