posted it on facebook but i imagine there are more people here who will know about it.
I do believe you’re the first enthusiast to own one of those if I’m not mistaken, great find! Now that I look at it it greatly resembles that one vintage ADT pull station (forget the model number at the moment).
Amazing find! There aren’t many opportunities for collectors to acquire these pull stations. It’s fantastic that you were able to get the matching backbox.
I’ve always wondered how these pull stations worked. What kind of switch do they use, and how are they reset?
Yeah, given the sheer rarity of Firecom systems in general (which is probably compounded by the fact that since the company is based in NYC that’s probably where the majority of their systems can be found, a lot of which have probably been replaced by now given how much of a big city NYC is), let alone the 8000, which up until this year I hadn’t even heard of! (I only knew about the 8500)
It actually would not surprise me if they work similarily to the ADT pull station I mentioned given the very similar design, where the thing you pull on is actually the front cover: that swings it down & out of the way, allowing you to then pull the actual handle behind the cover down, thus activating the alarm (somewhat convoluted especially when the cover itself could act as the handle but I suppose it works. I honestly thought the latter was the case until I saw NewAgeServerAlarm, one of the few owners of one of those ADT stations, demonstrate his).