It is indeed a NATSCO product, a little history behind the “64 Signals” theory. This would be connected to a certain model of a coded Natsco FACP with the Code 4-4-4-4, the term comes from the total blasts of the horns, a complete round of 4-4-4-4 “all four rounds” would equal of a total of 64 blasts. That’s when NATSCO termed it as “64 Signals”
Oh okay, I see, & that would make sense since panels made back in the 60s & such would very often do Code 4-4-4-4. How do you know for sure that that drill station is NATSCO though? Is there a logo somewhere on it that those photos don’t show?
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The model is unknown but this is a legitimate Natsco product, almost every Detroit Public School had these bc majority of their systems were coded Natsco systems. These would be located in every main office while the FACP being in the boiler room.
NOS Faraday “wind-up” round coded pull station WITH original key ring! Never used before it doesn’t even have a code stamped out on the coding badge. The code is 4-4.
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How & where you get this stuff I’ll never know, but very nice indeed! (especially that supposedly-unknown-model Faraday coded pull: that thing looks like it just rolled off the assembly line! (though then again if it was supposedly never used it kinda is, heh)
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This edwards panel is just amazing, love it
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Nice! That Simplex-rebranded version I’m sure is quite hard to find in particular!
What exactly is that black thing above the Simplex logo?
Said friend mentioned throughout this thread by Seth here, I’d like to show you these are in fact NATSCO, this is a slightly different variant, however it’s nearly identical. Fellow TFP user Kevtistic has one. His is model 6110F, I can’t recall the model of Seth’s currently but it is similar.
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Oh, okay I guess.
All very nice! Wouldn’t surprise me if you’re one of the major Autocall collectors in the community just from that!
Here’s a vintage/unique Edwards annunciator that I have, it uses paper cards to display the individual zones and uses a gravity fed bar to push them back up into resetting position. Once a relay activates a card will drop down displaying the zone/floor the alarm is on. The Drop Reset you twist the handle and that handle has a little tab will push up that little bar that will push the card back up in position, Signal Reset is to reset most likely the trouble bell signal or something like that. Model No.74542001 from 1969, also appears to be New Old Stock as the floor writings are from me the cards were originally all blank.
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Very nice! Not every day you find something like that for sure! Leave it to Edwards to be innovators even as far back as the 50s too: when everyone else was using simple incandescent bulbs to indicate system status, they were using drop-down text cards instead (sorta like a forerunner to today’s LCD displays), heh.
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My 14th & 15th coded pulls added to the collection, Faraday 10501-2001 and a vintage Edwards coded pull. Code on the Faraday is 2-2-4 and the code on Edwards is 4-5
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I own a Faraday coded pull that is very similar to yours! Solid finds!
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Tip: Surge Protectors expire after 3-5 Years and 2-3 years if you experience brownouts or blackouts, and they have an amp rating (I think) that the devices plugged into amp ratings can’t add up or there’s risk for circuit overload or fire. Sorry for being off topic I just had that buggin me.
I love those horns and pulls, they are so unique and a system could be made of those horns and pulls
hi seth, sorry about this bump but this is very alarming i hope you have these stored in a very sealed environment with zero ventilation because the sources on these are extremely fragile and prone to leaking i can visually see some of these have damage so its a high probability that those units are already leaking am-241 flakes because of this it can very easily contaminate your surroundings. alpha particles are extremely hazardous when inhaled or ingested but are harmless against the skin and can easily be blocked. and with the amount of the units you have you would be putting not only your life in danger along with any of your family and friends.