OLD IBM/SIMPLEX FIRE ALARM @ ELLET HIGH SCHOOL 

I love vintage schools. Makes me so sad to see all these old schools be demolished.

I hated it when they repainted my school bells. I loved seeing the bell rust over time.

I never seen an 8 inch bell before. I think there should be a program for this whole country that’s set to protect historical buildings from demolition.

these old schools are a symbol of how far humanity has come in architecture, design and fire safety

My favorite thing about this type of fire alarm system, is that it does allow you to create your own code.

I’m glad the preserved the old fire alarm system 😃

Beautiful old school, with gorgeous architecture. You did an amazing job on this video, keep up the great work Glenn. Cheers from Rick and Sarah.🤗

Welcome back! :) I love the vintage manual trip bells and the pull rods and the single stroke bells.

That's great! Those brass bells would be totally restorable. That's a great old Simplex panel, don't see many from the 70s left, I've only inspected one still in active service. Excellent candidate panel for restoration. Anyone wanting to see what the original IBM panel looked and worked like I have a restored example on my channel. Glad to see you posting again!

This channel is so interesting. Best of all, cool older fire alarms

I love the music! I’d really love to get one of those old motorized coder modules.

That was cool. My elementary school in the mid 90s had a system like this. I believe my school was built around that era.. I think 1950 or 51. Very cool to understand how it all worked years later.

Nice to see you back. Good video!

My school had 4 floors. A pull rod system ran straight up from the basement to the top floor. They used 10 inch diameter golden bells as the main trip bell and smaller 3 inch black bells as the fire bells in each room. They later added a switch in the office that could turn on a pre recorded voice announcement over the p.a.(tho they often forgot to switch it on) they then later added pull stations at each of the stairwells

I love IBM branded fire alarms. If they weren't so dang expensive, I'd get myself one of the IBM chevrons for my collection. I'm into retro computers and stuff so that goes right along with it as one of the more interesting pieces.

This is a cool video of old fire alarm systems. It really blows that this school is going to be demolished. Nice video as always.

Glad to have you back after feels like a year (probably not a year lol).

Very cool video! Thanks for sharing. Ellet grad - 76

Ah, welcome back!

Glad to see another one, and with bells at that! I love the IBM stuff because my Elementary school (now closed, but building still in use) had an IBM system installed around 1950 with single-stroke bells that did 4-4 and break-glass pulls. BTW, that painted Edwards Adaptabel obviously replaced an IBM one, as I can see IBM ones in your other photos.

The good thing about this is channel is the fire alarms that are shown in the videos are salvaged

This is why I got to love old buildings.

Welcome back!

My High School (Same one as from Hugh Jackman’s “Bad Education”) had a very unique IBM/Simplex system prior to a 2014-2015 EST Fire Alarm upgrade. In the 1950s, an IBM Coded Fire Alarm system was installed. The pulls were the type NY and the bells were 10 inch IBM Bells. In the 1960s, the High School got rebuilt where the system got added onto. The new parts of the building had Simplex 4263-1 pull stations and Simplex STR 6 and 10 inch bells. One of them broke down and was replaced by a newer 4070 series bell. Some time in the late 70s to early 80s, a few of the IBM NY pull stations likely broke down and were replaced by 4263-1s. By the late 1980s, only 6 IBM NYs were left in the building. In the 1990s, a fire alarm upgrade was attempted but was halted due to a budget crisis (Watch Bad Education). Meanwhile, a walkway was built with Simplex Smoke Detectors and 4904 strobes and then in the early 2000s, the auditorium got renovated and there were Simplex 4904 Bell/Strobes where the bell was a Faraday and the pull stations were 4099-9001s. In the mid to late 2000s, many of the old IBM bells began to break down and were replaced with Wheelock MB 10 inch bells. In the early 2010s, the cafeteria got renovated and since Faraday stopped making bells and Simplex stopped making the 4904 strobe plates, a System Sensor bell was mounted next to a Simplex TrueAlert strobe and the pull stations were 4099-9001s. The final system was a coded fire alarm system tied into a Simplex 4100U. I wish they kept the old system active to this day.

Really interesting video, I live in Youngstown which also has many old schools.

Great job sir. Keep up the good work.

Very nice ! ! This made my week

Those Fire Alarms are Nice and Old! By the way, Happy Easter!

My brother went to go here during the School's last year & went to the new one for a while

My school has or had pull rods, the bells are still infection, but not hooked up, the horns, possibly 4050s or 4040s or 4051s are blocked up by silver metal plates.

Your back. Thanks for a another upload how are you doing my friend. Hope is all well happy 2020. Quick questions. What was that beeping sound when u set off the alarm And does the simplex panel. Automaclly shut off itself or it has to be set off by someone

Welcome back, these videos are so interesting, do you know any school bells using 60s gray simplex STR 10” fire bells ?

8 inch bells were never very common, but it seems like they have the best tone.

FACT: my school has a old control panel by simplex. My fire alarms in my school are simplex 4040's

i really wanna have my own little system board with chime strobes any suggestions on what i should get?

Question, did Autocall manufacture fire alarm control panels where you can customize the code?

Nooo!!! Why get rid of history! It’s beautiful don’t demolish it!!!😢

Thanks for another great video. Question, assuming you work in the fire alarm industry, how did you first get into it? I've been interested in alarms for years and I'd like to make a job of it, but I don't know where to start. Did you start with some formal electrician training, or did you get a job with a company without any relevant formal training?

As far as I know, there were multiple variants of the 4208. There were different voltages, sizes and the option to have a codewheel or not. This appears to be the 120VAC model with a codewheel (I can't tell how many zones it has). I was wondering if this panel had to be manually reset or if resets on its own after a certain amount of rounds like older coded panels.

What did the old fire alarm panel look like back did it have both trouble bells

1:21 What is the small 3rd bell used for under the 2 Large bells

Love the OLD Simplex it’s EPIC AND Anciently. It’s an ancient Simplex. With a Simplex 4251-20 and the 4208. Btw soon I hope it does not get replaced with Fire Lites system.

I have never seen a loud bell like this, Plus I like the trouble bell because the bell was so little.

1:41 There probably was an older water fountain where that one currently is mounted

Would the trouble bell ring if there was something wrong in the system on that panel

Very cool; probably a random question; I saw one video where the pull rod was pulled three times; did some systems have a set up, to prevent accidentally/false alarms, using a certain number of pulls?

Quick question: what is the point of the manual trip bell? And I love the old single strokes

I was gonna comment that I was sad that there were no moving code wheel until you opened the control panel.

What was wrong with this building for it to be torn down

was the simplex pull station at 6:57 tied into the pull rod system? or another system that had been installed?

Question, were some mechanical fire alarm control panels really still in production as late as the 1970s? I thought they were discontinued in the 1960s.

Oh wow, they still used code motors in the 70's?

how do reset it after the alarm goes off i curious about that

It’s just the worst that all the old schools are getting shut down and demolished. I don’t know why they can’t just install new alarms in the schools, upgrade some of the electrical and call it a day.

5:00 is when the bell goes

Does it go 4 times around like the others or until the reset switch is triggered?

Why demolish such old buildings? It does look like it has a lot more life left In it!

Why is the music so eerie?

7:59 is that photo taken in ellet or is it just the same type the school had?

Still looking for a school that has 4051s.

What do they do when they care down the old school building

Were you able to salvage any of the old fire alarm system, or was it destroyed with the school demo?

Why is it that 4-4-4-4 is referred to as marching code?

Please tell me the bells were saved. Just saw that the school was recently razed.

When another video?

Beautiful school, why they must have to demolish it

I might be buying an Autocall break glass pull station soon, and did you respond to my message on your website yet?

Where could I find an auto call 121-s horn

If you put two pins immediately next to each other without the gap would the output to the bells remain on as they pass the switch or would it still be enough to break the circuit allowing the bells to strike twice? e.g. ......l.l.l.ll.l.ll.l.l.l.l.ll.l.ll.l....... (Viva la vida)

Where was the og panel located, n y did they replace it?

Did you save the panel and all the bells

This school has been demolished

Would you believe they make 12” bells

Do they have smoke detectors To activate those alarms

Have they started tearing down this school as of this writing?

I saw a t-bar

we have an old simplex panel like that in our house but bigger and for security

did you save the class change bells?

Sadly this school with be demolished soon.

Was the whole fire alarm system saved

What is the music

The Schools I Worked in the Single Stroke Bells Were Recessed in the Walls Both Outside and Inside These Did Not have The Pull Stroke System "

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I see with this system it’ll reset itself after 4 rounds.

Now in Days There Have Spectralert Classics and Spectralert Advance Wheelocks simplex's Gentex Commander's Gentex SHGs Mr Truealerts L Series Low Sounders voice evac alarms

IBM has code 4-4

I Replaced Many Systems with the Pull Rod ' You Needed the Trouble Bell So In Case The Signal Rod Jammed The Trouble Bell Would Complete the Circuit Even Though It's Protected by Cartridge Fuses ' I Found it Interesting that A School I Worked in Built in 1969 Had A Red Light Outside the School Along With A Bell Over the Fire Department Hookup Box ' The Outside Light Work Flash The Code Unless The Wheel Lock Jammed " School is Still in Operation in Jersey City N.J ' I Was an Electrician for the City ' A Very Large School ' So Many Codes '

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Whats with the music theme?

IN my school we A rare fire alarm in my Gym In my School they have P2Rs

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They're demolishing an old school building in my hometown of Brockton, MA. Built in 1916 originally as part of the old high school, in 1974 it was repurposed into an elementary school. I didn't see any pull-rod alarms, but they did have a Simplex 4208 system installed then, with 4051 horns on 4040-60 light plates, 4251-30 break-glass pulls, old 4262 ionization detectors and 4255-1 heat sensors. Later on in 2002 it became a pre-K center and then it was repurposed into an alternative school for juvenile delinquents. Sadly in 2015, the old Simplex panel began failing, so they "upgraded" to a Fire-Lite MS-10UD system with System Sensor SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobes. But I'm glad to report that the Simplex 4208 panel that has been sitting inactive for years will be taken out and donated to Brockton's fire museum! Nothing else worth saving though, unless anyone is interested in common mundane SpectrAlert Advances and i3 smoke detectors... See my blog post here: wile-e2005.livejournal.com/268528.html