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A Horn of Your Own

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A Horn of Your Own
Posted by COL BEAUSABRE on Saturday, May 4, 2024 7:39 AM

Disturb the peace! Tick off your neighbors! Get the Homeowners Association on the warpath! Confuse the crew of the local! 

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Posted by tree68 on Saturday, May 4, 2024 5:57 PM

Every now and then someone will show up at the park in Deshler with some form of train horn.  You can usually tell because you get used to normal horn behavior in the area and they don't come close.

Actual train horns are popular with truckers, and occasionally, fire departments...

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Posted by zugmann on Saturday, May 4, 2024 6:52 PM

$245?  If you ahve a spare impact it's like $30 to build.  Even if you have to buy an  impact, you can do it a lot cheaper if you want.  Why you would want to is beyond me. 

 

I guess it's capitalism, but $245 is a sucker price for sure. 

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Posted by jeffhergert on Saturday, May 4, 2024 8:35 PM

tree68

Every now and then someone will show up at the park in Deshler with some form of train horn.  You can usually tell because you get used to normal horn behavior in the area and they don't come close.

Actual train horns are popular with truckers, and occasionally, fire departments...

 

Some motorcycles, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTRYm_peqGA

 

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Posted by BaltACD on Saturday, May 4, 2024 9:40 PM

COL BEAUSABRE

Got a 3 bell set from Harbor Freight a couple of years ago for $19.99 I think.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Saturday, May 11, 2024 9:47 AM

Since most of these horns are air operated how is the air provided?  Charging up an air tank does take time.

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Posted by tree68 on Saturday, May 11, 2024 12:56 PM

blue streak 1

Since most of these horns are air operated how is the air provided?  Charging up an air tank does take time.

Small pumps for air horns (ie, for your car) have been around for years.  It'll be a rotary vane pump (like an oil pump).  This one is simply powered by a battery powered drill instead of a car battery.

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Posted by Ulrich on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 2:26 PM

Popular Mechanics had an article about outfitting an Austin Mini with a train horn way back in the 1970s. Somehow it never caught on. 

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Posted by Overmod on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 2:52 PM

It was massively illegal for street use then, and massively illegal for street use now.

On the other hand I routinely blew the '76 Eldorado horn going under bridges because it was the next best thing to a multiple chime horn chord...

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Posted by NKP guy on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 6:44 PM

COL BEAUSABRE
Disturb the peace! Tick off your neighbors! Get the Homeowners Association on the warpath! Confuse the crew of the local! 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/atBNpM8PwEA

 

It's been done.

 

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