There are some rubber grommets available for use on the power input wires held by the wire clamp. I have also found some on old equipment that were in pretty good condition, appropriate for reuse.

i like the sound loud lol since i like old horns

@@vintagesimplexfirealarmsof6440 I used to work on Simplex system's. They are loud and designed to be irritating to make people want to leave a possibly burning building. My problem was I had to go in and listen to the awful squawking until we could clear the building. Yep, I did like the Simplex system's over most others though.

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I’m in the process of restoring one now! I’ve been inspired by this video, going to make a new tag and everything. It’s a Simplex 4040 that’s seen better days.

@@-Productions-wp8do sounds like a cool project! Btw, this is actually SiphonR Alarms (formerly Alarm Collector 330) I’m just using a different account

@@saltypond390 Cool, I’ll sub!

That's why it looks like a 4030 or 4040

I have a red 4040 that is in good shape. Also have one that has a flush mount plate on it.​@@-Productions-wp8do

ditto! that was impressive.

Even the chinese canˋt copy it with this quality

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1. You are from Russia so they may sound different there. 2. They are actually *very loud*. 3. He did just turn the volume down.

Yup! They sold their fire alarm division to the Simplex Time Recorder Company in the late 1950's.

Thanks! I put a lot of time into editing. Some would say too much time

@@RestorationStation Don't listen to them. You take all the time you want. Quality over quantity, y'know. :)

@@antisoda think he was joking. Coming back 6 months later, I don't know what I was talking about lol

@@RestorationStation NEVER ! Editing is where the Mustard is cut! Don't believe me,take from a pro like Linus Tech Tips !! He has almost 16Million Subs ! Editing can still make a bad vid look great,and vice versa. You already have the Technical and Mechanical skills,Time is only your only Foe now.,just as it was with Linus when he was starting out. You are on the right path,just keep hitting it,and hit it HARD ! I wish i was in your place,i'm too OLD now and Retirement does have some rewards. Teaching the next Gen !😎

@@neohistoryfan1014 Yes, I am familiar with all that hardware. I have donated all that type of hardware to fire museums over the past 25 years.

Yes, I saw a video where this horn model was being used for a fire alarm.

​@@DanTDMJace it is a fire alarm

To be fair I've seen some cases where schools bells in quotes were actually basically just momentary sounding of the fire alarm horns used to do repair work sometimes around school since I was in their mind fully qualified. I remember the old Bell system was totally jacked up who knows how many times the system has been modified. Don't know if the controls are original or not everything was just like mishmash absolute Trainwreck but generally would work well most of the time when I would have to intervene usually was me! Usually it was burnt up relay contacts or welded contacts! When this would happen I knew exactly what to do had a school-issued keyring as well that key to that room was one of them. To be fair a lot of them work for stage crew which I was a member of. By the way did help elevator access anyways because of this however they noticed with back issues and also was able to get through building quicker because of traffic and just my issues was encouraged to take the elevator since did better and got the class quicker was able to avoid most of the people that cause trouble around are in the process bonus. As well as I was always moving equipment around sometimes to help the instructors and all as well as other reasons for this as well authorized to do a lot of stuff that most people wouldn't even believe wouldn't be happening either! One could say a jack-of-all-trades knows the trade. Back to the Bell programmer system if you want to call it that. This is one of the reasons I knew that occasionally fire alarms were used for schoolbelles occasionally. I was working on the system happened to brush against a wire that is loose and did not see it and of course was not capped off should have been even though it's low voltage for this very reason. Apparently that was part of the wiring that time the Bell System originally into the fire alarm system had bumped it and I heard the fire alarm go off golfers with second I thought that was strange happen to bump it again and same thing and realize wait a sec I don't think that's coincidence it turns out it was not. Most everything that the labels and everything were so far gone you couldn't even read them. Eventually found bits and pieces of documentation of the whole system and did piece everything together or Chris everything out in the end who drew up a full schematic and service info on my own mainly not just for myself but for anyone in the future there was no plans to replace it anytime!

Oh yes old IBM Simplex remember those systems for sure. Scrapped out quite a bit of that stuff back in the day salvaging a large fire alarm system they asked me is specifically which type of system and for good reason they said make sure that both sides of the power coming in or disconnected since the system had both hot wires from the 220 as basically standby power since there was no backup systems on this and 220 is present in the cabinet that definitely got my attention did not realize that they had done this back in the day. Yeah I do know of some old exit system Design Systems that had to separate incandescent bulbs and we're on two separate circuits sometimes on opposite just like the old me I'm Simplex systems. Also once found an old backup exit sign & lighting system it did not seem to be so much of a standalone system but yet it was sort of. It looked kind of odd wiring was even weirder. Was something else in addition to this in the vicinity. Lifter the ceiling tile and lo and behold up on a beam deep cycle battery! Very large 1in apparently this was providing power to more than one lamp head and that particular exit sign! Also I knew that this originally was a 6 volt system however there were 12 volt bulbs where there should have been 6 volt! The lamp heads basically used automotive type lamps not the typical ones you'd see as well so don't know what happened there but then again to be fair it had old fire alarm system in that building also use 12 volts those ones that had the basically Automotive turn signal flashers in them they had there were similar situation for backing the system also there's a bunch of out of place light fixtures out of place and didn't seem like they belong where they were or just odd looking where they were in otherwise. Also never could get them to work and everyone said that they didn't know what they were controlled by or even if they're still working turns out that was also a separate emergency lighting system back in the day same idea yep big old deep cycle batteries! Using standard base incandescent 12 volt bulbs. And there were a few other odd things that worked in this similar manner as well there were what look like old downlights that just had an automotive bulb in them above the exits as well even outside there was the occasional push button on a wall that seemed just out of place and Out Of Reach not labeled or anyting but these were test buttons for the various low-voltage systems there was a ton of batteries in various utility rooms half of that don't even know what it did

@@aaronbrandenburg2441 "Usually it was burnt up relay contacts or welded contacts!" Maybe the current adjustment resistor for NAC was set to a wrong value... probably some school staff with no basic knowledge about how fire alarms work just wanted to make the horns louder and louder and louder

I found the sound underwelming

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I bumped the volume way down in editing so people didn't complain about their eardrums being blown out. It's pretty loud lol

4040 4051 are louder

A testament to how strong they were built!

So did I it reminds me of the similar sounds strike sounds that is what you hear on the game show Family Feud when you hear the strike buzz instead of the answer ding

He more does things from the early electric era. Oil lamps I don’t think he will try

Yes, I have seen a Simplex 3080 in use as an alarm for when the new bags come at VPS

I may be wrong here but I think the idea is to restore it just the way it was made originally. IBM used electrical tape so he did too. I was amazed at all the hard work and detail he put into just the label. ❣️