Another Holy grail captured - Grimes Ful-View

[tsquale]

This finally arrived today! A Grimes Ful-View and another light to check off the list. Glass is 100% intact. I'll be trading my glass to a member local to me that has one with cracked glass on his 68 Cadillac M&M ambulance. I'll be able to hide the crack while on display and his Ambulance is MINT, so it really needs the nice glass.

 

[Stampeed Valkyrie]

Neat,
does this thing spin? Blink?

 

[tsquale]

Rotates. When I get time I'll make a video

Neat,
does this thing spin? Blink?

 

[Scoot163]

That looks old and rare! And very good of you to help another member by giving him the good glass dome. Kudos to you!

 

[southpaw]

Nicely done! Don't drop it!!

 

[jph2]

That is frickin' awesome!

 

[NPS Ranger]

Are those the same bulbs that are in the old Dietz rotators, that nobody can seem to find anymore?

 

[cmb56]

Are those the same bulbs that are in the old Dietz rotators, that nobody can seem to find anymore?

No, these are special bulbs (Grimes A-7079B-12 14V 40W) for aircraft anti collision lights, because this light is basically a such, and they are still available but expensive.
It is a bulb where half the glass globe is coated to be working as a reflector.

Michael

 

[cmb56]

A Grimes Ful-View and another light to check off the list.

Nice catch.
You seems to have got a rear left light because it do not have a name tag or a front right one.
But my guess is a rear left one.

You can check the casting number to try to see what it is but it seems to have been some different castings depending on of what ambulance they where used on (different sloops of the roofs).

I have a rear right one but with a name tag (added by John Dorgan when he restored the light for me).
Unfortunatly the plastic motor bracket broke in two pieces when shipped to me so I need to get one new or maybe make a new one in a 3D-printer.

Michael

 

[cmb56]

Here are some information I have picked up on some forums.

Miller-Meteor 360 Ful-Vu-Lite.

The front lights where the only ones with the name tags but Grimes also delivered front lights without the name tags.

1969 Miller-Meteor 48" Classic casting numbers:
350-655224 - Right Front
350-655225 - Left Front
350-655226 - Left Rear
350-655227 - Right Rear

Other casting numbers:
350-645226
350-645227

1967 Miller-Meteor casting numbers:
Right hand side - 350-655220
Left hand side - 350-655221

Some other casting numbers:
Front Right: 350-715252
Front Left: 350-715253
Rear Right: 350-715250
Rear Left: 350-715251

Lid casting number:
350-645225

Bulb:
Grimes A-7079B-12
14V 40W

Motor:
Badder-Brown, Model-D305 H65 12VDC 1.8A

Michael

 

[tsquale]

I have a 350-655220 so 1967 M&M right hand side.. Cool!

 

[cmb56]

I have a 350-655220 so 1967 M&M right hand side.. Cool!

It seems so.
My guess was wrong, you have a front light but of the ones without name tag.

Michael

 

[Maxim2Eng]

Unfortunatly the plastic motor bracket broke in two pieces when shipped to me...

Michael, try Loctite Plastics Bonding System...I've used it on several projects with excellent results.
Ed

 

[cmb56]

Michael, try Loctite Plastics Bonding System...I've used it on several projects with excellent results.
Ed

Thanks, I might try that sometime.
I have had that as a though but have not tried it because if it fail I have messed the bracket up.
I have had this light for about 10 years and I have not take any time to try any repair yet.
We will see when I feel it is time.

Michael

 

[lotsofbars]

NICE!!! Very rare and super effective. I'm glad it's being put to good use, too.

 

[cmb56]

I have made a correction of the light’s name in my reply made earlier.
I did not remember the light’s exact name when I wrote it but I have now looked at the name tag and it is in fact:
Miller-Meteor 360 Ful-Vu-Lite.

Why it is sometime called Grimes is because it was made by the aviation equipment manufacturer Grimes, now part of Honeywell, from an anti collision light (might have been for a B-52).

The Miller-Meteor plant was nearby the Grimes factory and they made these lights more or less exclusively for Miller-Meteor.

But a few other users have used the lights also. A local fire apparatus manufacturer as it seems.

Someone has a set that came off a Superior Criterion ambulance.

If that was an aftermarket installation (old M-M lights) or a factory installation (special order), I do not know but I can not recall I ever have seen a Superior ambulance with these lights.

Michael

 

[Wailer]

I'd like to see a picture of the ambo.