Rare Smoke Detectors

[TheCarson116]

@V.S.A.M

Certain people in the smoke alarm community believe this to be the most insane find ever which is just not true as there has been way rarer things found! Examples": Woodgrain 74R Sears, Wells Fargo gas alarm, and a C&M industries Model 5.

Yeah.

@smplxwoman

Smoke alarms are just plastic with some electronics, no clue why y’all all fuckin excited over them

Well so are most life safety devices but I don’t see you saying anything about them!

@Randomnicious

True, but nobody expected to find that either. Although, to be fair, I’ve seen rarer things too, like those one EICO detectors.

Yeah.

@Randomnicious

Here goes the FA side of the community s**ting all over the smoke alarm community. This is exactly why my Discord server joins both communities. I never knew why the FA side of the community hates the Smoke Alarm community, probably because of the simplicity of smoke alarms. But regardless, please do respect our opinions, because I’m into smoke alarms in addition to fire alarms myself.

Yeah, tired of seeing the occasional Reddit comment about that: leave us alone will you? We don’t mock your “side” of the community do we? (even though if you ask me they should not be considered separate as they’re technically all part of the same subject matter, which is life safety) They may be much simplier as well as of course different, but I’d say they still have a place in this community & that they’re still cool to collect, study, document, & preserve (especially for history’s sake, since if we didn’t who else would?), & given I consider myself an “equal-opportunity” sort of person when it comes to them I’m fine with both residential smoke detectors (which is my preferred term for them since they’re just another kind of smoke detector when it comes down to it) as well as other kinds of life safety devices (including the commercial/“fire” ones).