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Reliving my childhood on Netflix…been watching Route 66 (1960-64): cool Vette (1960-63 models), cool cats and cool music (still love the iconic theme by Nelson Riddle). Watching Martin Miller as Todd Styles naturally led me to revisit my boyhood fav, Adam 12. It wasn’t until season 2 the radio...

Here’s a puzzler… This 17-S is listed on FleeBay with a tag that reads 7C25K3 (Sep ‘53) for the serial number and what appears to say 12 A.C. For the voltage. It is quite crusty and appears to have been possibly mounted on the exterior of a building. I’m guessing the S stands for stanchion...

Looking for a good FedSig blue dome for 184

I can’t recall where I read this, but it is a good ”thing to know” if you’re looking to replace the rear lens of your Federal siren: Apperently, Federal used the tail light lens from the 1954 Oldsmobile! Very easy to source on FleaBay.

It’s all this time on my hands (4” rain this week!), I thought I would tackle the noisy motor on my blue glass domed 174. In the back of my mind, I was trying to remember just what is involved. as I got the gearbox cover off I remembered...oh yea, you have to disassemble the entire beacon! Oh...

I have been invited to receive a pair of CJ184s for free, but I have to remove them from the truck (Ford C cab). Since it has been about 50 years since I last installed one (and I’ve slept since then) my recollection may be a tad rusty. Please correct me if I’m wrong: Remove dome; Remove...

A friend gave me 4 of these...no good to me as the only Whelens I have are DMS strobes. What are they used on?

Recently all the images in the Vintage & Collectible Sticky Threads shows file names but there are no images (specifically in the catalog threads). I have tested on Apple iOS and Windows platform with similar results.

I need two rotator gears (or two rotator assemblies). Motors are good and worm gears intact, but the gears attached to the reflector shaft are toast. As I am unfamiliar with these bars, so I don't know I gears are available but know my fellow eLBers are up to the task. Thanks!

Hemings Classic Car magazine posts reviews of classic models and the Sep issue included the Scottsdale Bricklin cruiser...enjoy! http://www.automodello.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=bricklin+police&Submit= And history: http://bricklin-sv-1-build-history.com/photo_9.html

Rather than hijack another thread, I thought I would enlist the considerable knowledge base of my fellow eLB members on this enthralling topic (my wife, looking over my shoulder commented, "Only y'all would find his enthralling.") Background: As a young man growing up in Louisville, KY, I...

Some folks are downright PROUD of their stuff! But $1,500 is a bit too proud.... https://www.ebay.com/itm/252463020177

Two RV46s with NOS domes, but which is brighter?

A friend gave me some of these but I have no idea what they are and I don't have any Whelen lights.

After the last Tapatalk update for iPad, I cannot login to eLB. Tapatalk tech support says eLB "...does not have a working Tapatalk plugin running..." Having spent 15 years in the industry, I "love" it when vendors start pointing fingers.

After the wettest spring in recent history (20" in May for OK--I think TX got more!), we finally got all our crops planted and sprayed--should've been done a month ago! Situated a portable a/c next to my workbench and decided to get into the Model 11-O (for Oscillating) Super Twin BeaconRay...

Eastwood Company (Eastwood.com) makes products for auto enthusiasts (like me--old cars are another of my weaknesses). Among the items are polishing, plating and paint equipment. Some time ago, a fellow member was looking for an alternative to gold cadmium plating (expensive) to restore a...

The "Idle Farmer's Workshop" has been inundated with projects directed from "She Who Must Be Obeyed", so I haven't had time to work on my two projects languishing on the workbench: my Super Twin BeaconRay (or is it a Twin Super BeaconRay) and my Signal-Stat Dual Comm. I acquired spare parts for...

About a year + ago, I snagged a Dual Comm from a towing company near where I live--it had clear domes and no holes in the speaker cover. The domes were not broken but badly fogged, so much so I didn't notice it was missing a rotator! Oh well, I got it for $25. Oh, and the remaining rotator...

I was visiting family in Louisville KY over the long weekend and spent some quality time with my younger brother (retired PD chief) and his lovely family as we enjoyed near perfect weather (hell, it WAS perfect!) reminiscing about our active days that was fueled by fine bourbon . He inquired...

A couple of photos of an NYPD car with a Unity RV on the roof popped up in the ID This Light thread. I did some digging to see if it was a one-off for NYPD and found out that Unity had a tilt-beam beacon in its lineup--RV46R(ed)T, B(lue)T AND A(mber)T. All they had to do was change bulb...

A friend has this Super Chief and asked me if it was "valuable". I have a 1957 Siro-Drift in my collection only because it was shipped to the area and used locally until a decade ago. It has been restored by B&M. (Beautiful, ain't it? Truly CRAFTSMAN-level quality work!) Any way, I...

Don't know if it's worth the effort. It's not like I don't have other projects to work on...and planting will be upon us soon enough so the Idle Farmers Workshop will be on hiatus till the Fall. There are those rainy days, though.... Front Back The domes are so fogged that I didn't...

Just got a 2009 John Deere combine and it doesn't have beacons. Unlike their other equipment, they do not have a "kit" to add beacons, so I'm doing it myself. Scored three Vector pods @ $25 a piece with clear domes. One JD Hella retails for $72, and JD puts one on either side of the cab and...

After reading some posts regarding "correctness" of NYPD gear, I thought I would share an interesting site that covers mostly from 1900s to 1970s. Might help explain some discrepancies, otherwise, just plain fun! POLICE NY Home page POLICENY old NYPD Enjoy! Anything like this for you...

I have been working on this project for over a year now. I got the idea in 1972 when a friend asked me to help him convert his model 11 to 4 beams. I responded, "Why stop there? Let's make them oscillate!" We never got our hands on spare 174 parts so we settled with a jerry-rigged 4 beam...