SaschaUE said:
thanks
but i dont trade this light
i hope i get all the parts that i need to restore it.
I don't blame you at all for not wanting to trade off such a nice light. The FL is one of the few lights I've never owned. But I grew up with them, seeing them on ambulances in my part of West Texas.
In 1969 I bought a 6-volt DL8 from a funeral home in Lubbock that had exited the ambulance business. An emergency communications organization to which I belonged (REACT) had just formed a first-aid team and we had begun providing service to the local race track. When we first started we had access to the track's old ambulance, a '60 Chev wagon; but all that it had for emergency equipment was a single Federal 17 beacon on top. In May 1970 Lubbock was hit by a disastrous tornado and we were able to mobilize with a "loaner" ambulance. Because of the work we did during and just after the disaster, the track gave us the old station wagon. We put a 12-volt #1019 bulb (from a Jr. Beacon) in the DL8 and mounted it front center on the wagon, moving the beacon back a bit. We also added a pair of blue Carpenter lights to the front corners and a pair of big red Unity lights on the bumper which alternated with the two roof lights in a criss-cross pattern. Finally, we added a Federal 77G "doubletone" siren to the rt. fender where anothe siren had been at one time.
With the bigger bulb in the DL8, it was a lot brighter than the old-style bulb, and it also provided enough resistance in the line that the old 6-volt motor was never hurt by running it on 12-volt. We got a lot of comments about that light, and even fussed at by a local deptuty whom I knew who had on the spur of the moment, decided to escort us to the hospital one night as we exited the track with a patient. That old light, unfortunately, was taken in a burglary 22 years ago, in which I lost not only that light but a number of old colelctable sirens I had, and that was long before Ebay became popular!
