Federal Signal Model 14 blue
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toon80
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dmathieu
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Black Hoe
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ex416
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good job. you really brightened up the inside of that light. :thumbsup:
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tsquale
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NPS Ranger said:
That it does! Other than mirrors, Federal never spent the effort to polish the internals of their lights.
AuroraBorealis
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Beautifully done. When you have time, please come to Tennessee as my collection could sure use some bling treatment! 
Turned it into a beauty. Blue domes and clear domes with colored bulbs are my favorite versions.
flahotrod said:
I had a Dietz 211-WW, their hill light beacon. It came with a clear dome and red/clear bulbs, and it made its rounds among some of my ambulances over the years. I got it from a guy who exited the ambulance business and sold off the emergency equipment. I got his Q and the Dietz beacon. I first used the Dietz light on our 1965 Olds VistaCruiser ambulance. It went on that little Vista "hump" towards the back of the wagon. What was nice was that you could see it from the front as well as the rear, since it sat up just a bit; and it's a good thing you could. One night we were transporting from the local MotoX races. Up front the ambulance had a Q siren flanked by four DoRay lollipops. Coming out of the race track grounds we hit a bump in the road. That bump jarred something on the alternating flasher that powered the lollipops, blowing a fuse. So we made the entire run to the ER with just that nice, bright beacon as the only warning light for that run. Many years later we had that some light on top of a hightop Suburban ambulance; but this time with clear bulbs and a blue dome. One night I was running on a fire call with my VFD out in the county, and suddenly found myself in front of one of our engines. Without knowing it until someone hollered at me on the radio, we lost that blue dome, so it was all-clear coming from that light, and it was blinding the guys behind me. Downside was that I couldn't kill the beacon because on that truck, the beacon, front lollipops and rear tunnels were all on one switch. :suicide:
Wigwam700
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Wigwam700 said:Skip if you wrote an actual book, I would read it!
Todd
You're not the first to suggest it; and I have done a good deal of free-lance writing over the years, especially for the newsletter for PCI: Professional Cars Internat'l.
I started to do one about ambulance history in West Texas, but didn't get far. Sitting down and writing was no problem: I'm perfectly well at home on a keyboard. But the cost of getting such a work published was absolutely ridiculous. So now it's on a backshelf for the moment.
stansdds said:
That part might be o.k., but you still have to have a publisher, and that's where the cost is. I was actually approached by the people who publish one of the EMS magazines that has run a couple of my articles over the years, but it was just too costly.
Skip Goulet said:
Check this site for publishing your work.
https://www.smashwords.com/
And I'm sure there are plenty of other sites that offer free publishing.
stansdds said:
Thanks. Interesting site, and may be just what I need. I've sent them an email to see what I can do, since I don't have my own computer. My time on this thing is limited to two hours a day; but what I had started is on a flash drive. Maybe that'll work!