As always Lenn....pretty cool mate!
Got the new key on today so it`s done, have a neat one coming that is said to have come out of the RR station in Big Springs TX.
It even has a battery eliminator on it.
Also have a sounder and key coming.
Thanks Charlie.
This is a replica resonator box we made for the key and sounder that`s coming in a few days, they would wedge a tobacco can behind the sounder so it would make a different sound so the rr guy could tell which sounder was getting a message.
here`s a video showing one in use at 1:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_O4IPz7Cs
Today we made a key for the new sounder that`s should be here Sunday.
People don't know it but they are still in use.
I love thatr retro tech that never breaks down like electronics do.
Thanks Petri and Bruce, the one that came out of a RR depot in Big Springs TX should be here tomorrow Scott should know of that place.
Today we made a wooden Key.
This is an awesome thread, Lenn...!!!
You are a mechanical genius!
Gil
Nice set-up for sure .... I've never seen a Battery Eliminator either, but assume it must be some form of capacitor.
Who manufactured that sounder .... Wunel or something like that?
Are there any T&P markings on either the sounder or the key?
You ought to have some good fun with that one and your other set-up, you could string wires out to the shed and have a dinner call communicator! ;c)
Thanks Daniel, the tag on the sounder says, W.V Tel. Co.
The batt eliminator says made by the Schauer machine Co.
Cincinnati Ohio.
Picked up a main line sounder and put it in the resonator.
Mounted two sounder on this board to look like they would be wired into the main line
