[TheForge] Interesting add for a Buffalo Forge Blower

[Stephen Viola]

I was just thinking the same thing.. with the mad panic for fallout
shelters in the 50's.. there must be millions of old blowers buried in
unused shelters around the country!! Very annoying as I have been
searching for a decent blower for about a year now. I've been looking
for a manual / electric blower like shown there. Ahh well the search
continues in this part of the world!

Stephen

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On 25/11/06, Jerry Frost <frosty at customcpu.com> wrote:
>
> From: "Mike Linn" <bamablacksmith at comcast.net>
>
>
> > Frosty,
> > I actually have one of the model 1CD's driving my
> > forge right now. It was originally painted bright
> > yellow and the gearing was so tight it was a work-out
> > to crank it. I had been told it was an air raid siren
> > blower but now I see that is wrong. If you look in
> > the photo album under shop photos, #39 has a shot of
> > my shop with the said blower under the forge. I
> > pulled off the gears and replaced them with a
> > continuous duty 1/4 HP fan motor. It works GREAT!!!
> > BTW.. I gave $10 for it at a surplus shop in
> > Birmingham.
> >
> > mike
> >
> >
>
>
> Was bright yellow? Man that thing still is bright
> yellow! <grin>
>
> I'll bet that once Buffalo got their blowers approved
> by the gvt. for one application it was easy for them to
> get them approved for others. I wouldn't be surprised
> if they're the only blowers approved for fallout
> shelters, air raid sirens and other similar gvt. uses.
> They probably are still the only approved blowers for
> these things.
>
> Good to know I might run across a good blower if a
> local fallout shelter or air raid siren is auctioned
> off.
>
> Frosty
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