Train horn

[texasmaan]

Dont know if people here are interested or not but my buddy just got his "train horn" into day from a guy on Ebay. it took 2 days to get here, free shipping, and cost 49.99, its NIB. Its just the horn itself it said on the box to run it at 110PSI but were running it at 120~130PSI. He went to harbor freight and got 40 feet of 200PSI hose($4), A 300PSI 5 gal tank($20) and a push button ($2). We will be hooking it up to his King Ranch today or tomorrow and i will post pics and vid sometime soon. It was a good deal that sound a heck of a lot better than i thought it would ( made my ears hurt and gave me a headache from 15 feet away) So now if someone wants to pull in front of him when he is loaded with a trailer or a bed full of dirt, Surprise


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chrom...Q5fAccessories


P.S. dont believe to sound bit on the page it is way better than that.

[Long Ago LEO]

Sweeet. Very nice. Should command attention (and likely aren't street legal in many places).

I have an electronic airhorn on my vehicle (for clearing traffic), but always thought some good horns would work better. I have a small collection of authentic train horns; an interest I developed when a train derailed in my town in '68 and a lone horn ended up in tall grass and was missed during the cleanup. It took some trimming of the diaphragm to get 110 psi to push it. Very deep and resonant; similar to a single-tone fog horn. Had fun with that as a kid and it serves as the base for a bird bath at my Mother's place now.

A couple of years ago a friend in the marina upped the ante when he put some aftermarket "train horns" on his boat, so I finally mounted an authentic set of KL5A's (of Amtrak fame) on my houseboat. Only use them to acknowledge the charter dinner boat that docks across from me when he hits his on the way out of the marina. They're the real deal - right off the train. They're pretty obnoxious.

[mojo]

A couple of years ago a friend in the marina upped the ante when he put some aftermarket "train horns" on his boat, so I finally mounted an authentic set of KL5A's (of Amtrak fame) on my houseboat. Only use them to acknowledge the charter dinner boat that docks across from me when he hits his on the way out of the marina. They're the real deal - right off the train. They're pretty obnoxious.

Now those are just plain sick lookin, evil (black) air horns!!

[rwcreigh]

man if only i could put them on the sport bike!!!!

[Long Ago LEO]

These things are so big and heavy, I suspect a custom bike shop could use them as the chassis and build a bike up around them!

Before the old train horn went back to my Mom's, we had it down at the marina for a spell. The yard foreman used to keep it laying in the back of his Cushman cart that he ran errands with around the marina. He'd rigged it to work off a portable air tank with a simple lever pull. Keep in mind this horn was about 3-feet long with the trumpet bell about a foot in diameter and the throat closing no smaller than about 4-inches. He'd set that thing off after pulling away from some unsuspecting ol' bloke and it would rattle every boat in the harbor. Pretty funny stuff (if you knew what was coming).

[rwcreigh]

that would be funny to see!

[VegasGuy]

Caution! Don't do what I did. I followed the link to the Ebay site. From there I clicked on the link to hear what the horn sounded like. On that site there was a sound player. About the same time I clicked that, another Explorer window popped up and said it was running a virus scan on my system.

No way to stop it so I unplugged my computer. When I booted back up, which took forever, my McAfee Anti-Virus had been partially erased. It reported missing programs and could not repair itself. I had to reinstall it.

Everything seems to be fine now. Just be careful out there.

[texasmaan]

Sorry to hear that about the virus. To Long Ago LEO, you have about $500 to $700 sitting right there. The real deal horns that you have are very pricey, the reason is because train companies usally referbesh there old horns because of cost. I bet those sound wicked. For are application the one bought off of ebay are GREAT for 50 bucks and all together spent less than $100 bucks. I really did not expect them to sound as authentic as they do the sound bit really does not do justice for these horns . As said before i will post pics and a youtube link to a vid. when we get it up and running

[rwcreigh]

WOW thanks for the heads up!

[Long Ago LEO]

texasmaan - you are correct. These get refurbished routinely, because new ones run upwards of $2,000. Sounds like your buddy got a great deal if his horns sound authentic.