How to do Maintenance on a Thunderbolt siren (Read desc) 

This video is perfect for towns that still have Thunderbolts in service.

11:10. Spinning up a bolt is something we don't see often. Awesome video.

I always see brushes and bearings referenced when I watch videos of sick thunderbolts so it’s interesting to see them up close

I really like how you take care of the bolt. It looks somehow...relaxing.

Keep up the repair videos, wish there was more out there, thank you so much.

This is awesome there is like no videos on how to do maintenance on a thunderbolt so thank you this helped out a lot

Very well done, I’d say you did much better than mine from a few years back!

Wow this is so cool now I know what the inside of a thunderbolt

I would love to own a thunder bolt siren like this

I just KEEP watching this video, and I don't even have a Thunderbolt. It's so cool how these sirens work inside. Great video

Nice siren i was looking for a detail nice good thing i saw this vid

This is really cool thanks

Cool video! Your SD10 looks a lot better!

Really nice! Greetings from Germany 👌🏻👍🏻

This is very helpful since I am going to get a thunderbolt in the future.

This is a very neat video!

i have the same camera as you (Cannon Vixia HF R800) btw great video, love thunderbolts.

Perfect video.

Good video!

I plan on getting a bolt, this will be very helpful

Can you make a video about some steps to take in case your thunderbolt's chopper has some of the problems you mentioned? (Cleaning motor fields, cleaning a commutator, how to fix a scraping noise when the chopper spins)

Weird question, but does a bottom motor bearing on a Model 2 also just slide out like that on a Thunderbolt? I recently acquired a Model 2 and am having trouble with getting that free.

Will be watching this if I get my hands on the thunderbolt in Windsor Hills and Overhill dr Los Angeles, CA

this is awesome, i want to get the 1003 t-bolt eventually

33:35 growl test

There needs to be more videos like this

I watched every second of this video! I don't own a thunderbolt (sadly)

I used to do non-operational testing on our sirens if we had a problem during an activation. Usually I had to do that in the middle of the day. I never wanted to blast the neighborhood while testing so I would cycle the three switches in the cabinet one at a time (blower, chopper, rotator). The most hideous sound was running the blower without the chopper, it sounded like a giant fart-cushion. We had people who were at home and asleep during the work day (shift workers). They would invariably call and complain about the fart-cushion blower. My biggest maintenance problem was in the rotator due to a lack of lubrication. When it is sitting on top of a sixty foot tall wooden pole that would mean a call to the siren company to come out and service it. Not a task that I was ready to do. I could climb a ladder and service it from the cabinet (sometimes even replace contactor parts or reset a thermal that had tripped out).

Any idea how to fix brushes on a thunderbolt or how to replace them

Nice! Do you know any dimensions of the siren? I want to build at half, 1/4, or 1/8 of the regular sire

If I don’t have good brushes, do you happen to know where I could get a few?

I never seen a inside a thunderbolt sirenn😁👍

This may have been addressed, but how do you get new brushes if needed? Are parts still available for these?

Is this siren is able to do the Hi Lo sound?

Nice

I love this. Let me ask you this. Do you have this plug into 120 and 220?

Very informative video but my question kind of still remains. How does the siren rotate without binding the wires for the rotor?

what voltage and amp level do bolt choppers run at (chopper level 1)

Hello, so I got a question how do you connect the wires to the thunderbolt to the control panel or plug. I have a thunderbolt 1000B in my garage and I’m trying to get the thing running again.

Where did you get this siren from?

If you have a Thunderbolt 1003, can you tell me how to do maintenance on the dampers/solenoids? Edit: When I said "tell me", I meant to say "make a video".

Where does the blower go to the chopper?

What do the brushes do again?

These are a lot bigger than i thought.

And also I have a question what is the heaviest part on the thunderbolt?

Nice...

Yeah like we just have a thunderbolt siren in our garage lol

Where do you get the sirens

So, it would be impossible to do an Induction conversion?

Maybe you can make video on how to replace damaged parts if somebody would have Thunderbolt with damaged parts.

I like the video, but a lot of the time I hear “right here” at the beginning parts

So much bigger than I thought

Get a commutator stone and clean that commutator, repack the bearings and change the motor brushes, and it will run perfectly.

how would i obtain one

I thought the warning said "do not watch with headphones"

“Fs Thunderbolt 1000T Teardown”

Could you do Allertir and 3t22 maintenance if you can.

1003's are 1000T's with solenoids

how change chopper level

I was wondering how these beasts work

lol its a free exercise doing this

How big is the horn to the chopper

18:57, the rest of the siren is metal too, does that mean if you put power to the siren the ENTIRE siren is live?

Can you make a vid on how to replace a solenoid?

is it a 4/5 or a 5/6

is it ok to grab the commutator like that?

Is that an sd-10 at 33:57? Also I love that ending!

We did have a Thunderbolt siren but got replaced bc they did not watch this video

IN THIS CASE

Where'd you get 3 phase 240vac

what you want to do is inspect the chopper of the siren this is the chopper- (SLAAAP!!!!) (SLAAAAAP!!!!) the slaps got me dead also i dont think SLAPPING the chopper is propper anyways-

Can you do a maintenace on a p-50 pls??

I really wish i could get a hold of a thunderbolt

Why does the chopper use a universal motor with brushes and not an induction motor?

I was told that these can't be operated in temperatures under freezing or it will ruin the belt.

Where Do I Buy This .

How could I buy one

What's the difference between a THUNDERBOLT A and B

Btw How do you secure the Thunderbolt to the ground?...

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it sounded like it was ran with a blower in the end

I don't have one but not toys

How do you buy thunderbolt ?😭

I Literally See A Brushed Motor

1003

i would say you never told us what to do if there is something wrong

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I’m going to be honest you talk a little bit too fast