Twin Beacon Ray Visibar Refurb - Pic Heavy

[Scoot163]

Haven't posted anything for awhile. This bar was in real rough shape and given for free to my customer, who is going to eventually place it on a vintage police car. It was so beat up, that the black leg brackets literally crumbled in my hands when I took them off for painting. The domes were cracked and useless. Lights were rusted, motors were rough etc. Here are some before and after pictures.



The CJ-24 Speaker Cone was gone.




The Speaker Driver was very tired!



All was cleaned rewired, motors refurbished by Skulldigger, brackets and the speaker housing powder coated by the customer. She got new endcaps, found an appropriate size speaker cone, and riveted on a new speaker badge. It took a lot of elbow grease and patience to get it back together. The former shop guys had removed the chain and put a motor in the slave drive. I left it that way since that was the way she came out of service. I think the old girl looks pretty good now.




Thanks for looking! I will try to upload a video but YouTube is not cooperating at the moment.

 

[dmathieu]

Nice job!

 

[kerry4951]

Looks great!!! What a difference!!

 

[jph2]

Great job! That bar is looking like new now!

 

[Skulldigger]

Beautiful. My favorite lightbar ever.

 

[Pete L.]

WOW, she turned out great. I like how they stashed the can flasher in the
beacon base for the lollipops.

 

[Scoot163]

WOW, she turned out great. I like how they stashed the can flasher in the
beacon base for the lollipops.

Yes! That made the flasher installation neat and tidy. They had one 537 flasher in each base. The lollipops flash independently. Date codes put this bar in service starting in 1971 with some modifications in 1973.

 

[cmb56]

What are the flashing lamps?
I do not recognize the bases.
The lamps look a little as Dietz but not the bases. Maybe a rebuild?
Red lenses to the front would look more emergency vehicle than now but probably not original to the bar who ever used it originally.

Michael

 

[Scoot163]

What are the flashing lamps?
I do not recognize the bases.
The lamps look a little as Dietz but not the bases. Maybe a rebuild?
Red lenses to the front would look more emergency vehicle than now but probably not original to the bar who ever used it originally.

Michael

The lights themselves are Dietz 4-75's. Whether or not the bases are original to the lights I am not sure but I doubt it. The bases looked more like they would have been used to maybe mount turn signals on car fenders, and adapted to work on the 4-75's and the Visibar.

As far as amber lenses to the front, it was very common in Washington State into the mid 1980's. My department had a Model 17 Beacon Ray in the middle of a visibar, with two amber Dietz lights independently flashing on both ends. Even when the Aerodynic came out, we had amber end flashers on it front and rear. When we moved to Streethawks we went all blue with blue lower strobe flashers and ambers only to the rear. After that red and blue to the front to this day.

 

[JFRD10925]

Very nice!

 

[Pete L.]

I like the amber lights. I seem to remember that in fog prone areas
the amber was much better warning.

 

[kitn1mcc]

nice work

 

[H20]

Looks great, nice restoration.

 

[Mars Light]

Very nice.

 

[southpaw]

Very nicely done sir!

 

[Scoot163]

View attachment 209365 Looks great, nice restoration.

LOL, well I didn't expect him to put it on THAT! But it looks pretty darn good if I do say so myself!

 

[Maxim2Eng]

Looks great!
But just lost 15mph off top end and 5mpg...but lookin fly!

 

[toon80]

Whenever I see a Visibar with wide mouth speaker, I think of that old 1980 "Superfuzz" movie with Terrence Hill. Very nice job on the bar

 

[bpollard]

Bolt it down. Wire it up!!!