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by **Magnetboy** on Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:36 pm

Nevada Willis wrote:That's a really interesting signal. I had originally assumed that all the old Southern Switch portholes were Autoflows. The Darley (as in Time-O-Matic?) flasher and small weatherhead seem to reinforce a theory that in the 1940s Darley and Southern Switch either used some of the same parts or provided parts for each other.

Willis,

Do you have any supporting information about the Darley and Southern Switch connection? That would mean that my Darley flasher might be factory correct for this particular beacon and it should be rebuilt and reinstalled. :scratch:

by **blecha67** on Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:38 am

AWSOME !! I have never seen one of those before. Very cool restore photos.

by **francisrizzo** on Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:22 am

John,
Beautiful job! :good:

Very cool/unique beacon too. :cool:

Although I'm not a MB fan, the MB-reminiscent detail on the door blank instead of a flat panel adds alot of character.

ps - I dig using ladders as a hanger system!

by **Fred** on Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:19 pm

didn't really like it, but :easy:

thought you did slightly better than average this time around.

:good:

by **Fred** on Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:27 pm

BTW Jon, which of the neighbors did you steal the Mercedes logo from?

by **Crunge98** on Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:30 pm

Nice job!

by **LarryC39** on Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:32 pm

I do like that fancier blank door plate they used. It looks like you got modern S&S visors installed on the doors, like Hertford used on their other S&S beacon, the originals were peen rivited onto the doors.

PS anyone have three more reflectors like that?

by **Magnetboy** on Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:46 pm

LarryC39 wrote:I do like that fancier blank door plate they used. It looks like you got modern S&S visors installed on the doors, like Hertford used on their other S&S beacon, the originals were peen rivited onto the doors.

I like the fancier door plates too. This beacon was complete as I got it. The visors appeared to be the originals.

LarryC39 wrote:PS anyone have three more reflectors like that?

Feel free to hijack my thread. :good:

Anyone got 3 Sargent & Sowell reflectors for Larry? :beg:

They should look like these:

by **Fred** on Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:32 am

Feel free to hijack my thread.

A little late MB.....Larry's already walked thru that door. :lol:

by **LarryC39** on Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:50 pm

FWIW those disc flashers are the old Chinese equivalent of a hardware store. I have at least three (more I think) of them and they're all identical but all have a different nameplate under the adjustment switch. I looked in my modern S&S TEECO style 4-way and it had a TSI controller in it. So I think your controller is 100% authentic, even if the nameplate is not quite so :scratch:

I'd restore and keep that one in there and if you really want to get anal when you find a S&S or other ID tag stick it on there instead.

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