Doorbell for a firefighter

[driftpin]

I am a retired firefighter/paramedic. I just got this. I want to use it for a doorbell but The Wife is not in-agreement. My grandson rang it and said, "that's the pizza bell, Grandpa! " So we're having pizza for dinner.

The bell is a manual fire alarm from a Miami-Dade County FL school, and is older than I am, and I'm collecting SS now! I got it from a veteran draftsman who's drawing my plans for a 1 car garage at a soon to be rental.

I may need to find a place in the garage where my grandson can reach it to announce "Pizza bell! Pizza for dinner!" This little fella is four years old, there are three others. He invented the "pizza bell."

 

[couch67]

you could always wire it up in the shop near your fridge, as your 'tip' bell !!

 

[driftpin]

Yes, a good idea, too!

 

[gnpenning]

Make sure you put his name on the back, so when the time comes it will go to him. You both will have great memories. He will always be able to look at it and remember that great times with you.

 

[homeschool]

Make sure you put his name on the back, so when the time comes it will go to him. You both will have great memories. He will always be able to look at it and remember that great times with you.

This^^^

On another note, as soon as my workshop is done I plan on setting my gamewell boxes/gong up as a dinner Bell from the house to the shop.

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[NUTTSGT]

I don't think I need to post for you to know my opinion.

 

[driftpin]

I had no expectation that I would get this when I stopped to see the draftsman. Thank-you for the suggestions, yes, putting my grandson's name on it would be a good idea, inside the bell where it won't be evident, so maybe when I'm gone, he will find it and have a happy moment.

Having your own local monitoring station, so you are alerted to dinner, is a great idea.

And thank-you to 'nuttsgt' for the sentiment, much-appreciated. I enjoy reading your posts on the current workload.

I don't have things all-over the place from my days on fire-rescue. This is the first thing I have had in a long time, out in the open. I did hang my Cairns helmet in the shop, on a hook, and my figure-eight is in a safe spot in one of my boxes. The figure-eight is your tool that works with a swiss seat and a rescue line to save your *** in an elevated situation. I always carried the lifeline whenever we went into a high-rise for a fire alarm or known structure fire. My jurisdiction was just 4 sq. miles, but being on the Atlantic Ocean, it was filled with high-rises, over two-hundred when I was on-duty, and they've built a lot more since I left.

 

[rburke65]

Hook it up as your door bell in the garage! Grand kid would love it!

 

[77Birdman]

I love the idea of a Pizza Bell!

 

[58Yeoman]

That's cool. I found a service station bell at an estate sale for $5. Got it in my shop with the hose running across the driveway, so I know when someone is coming in.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

That's cool. I found a service station bell at an estate sale for $5. Got it in my shop with the hose running across the driveway, so I know when someone is coming in.

I use one as a parking stop indicator in my garage. I took it from one of the Exxons I managed just before they demo'd it to make it a gas only station in the mid 80's.

Tommy

 

[driftpin]

One of my older brothers told me a story about us as kids. I grew-up in the 1950's/'60's. We lived outside of a metro area by Lake Ontario in western NY. The village had a Cities Service gas station where my father got gas, and it was a two-bay service area, with the office where the cash register was having one of those map racks, stocked with state maps. I used to get a map every once in awhile.

The gas pumps had a pneumatic activated bell hose, the bell would ring when you pulled-up. My brother closest in age to me and I liked to get out of the car while gas was being pumped, and go jump up and down on the rubber hose, trying to make the bell ring as-frequently as we could. It was great fun, and that bell would get a work-out. Fun in a trip to the village for two young boys.

My father told my brother after another trip to the Cities Service, "I know you and your brother like to ring the bell there, but Arnie (the proprietor) just-about has a heart-attack every time that thing rings!" And that was the end of our jumping on the rubber hose, to hear the bell chime.

Now I have my own bell, and can use it to my heart's content, though I got a big kick out of my little grandson naming it "the Pizza Bell," and ringing it to request pizza night.

That's cool. I found a service station bell at an estate sale for $5. Got it in my shop with the hose running across the driveway, so I know when someone is coming in.

 

[Marctrees]

Now that I have your address, I know where to get pizza and beer.

And, I think it would make a very fine doorbell.

Marc

 

[srr]

I am a retired firefighter/paramedic. I just got this. I want to use it for a doorbell but The Wife is not in-agreement. My grandson rang it and said, "that's the pizza bell, Grandpa! " So we're having pizza for dinner.

The bell is a manual fire alarm from a Miami-Dade County FL school, and is older than I am, and I'm collecting SS now! I got it from a veteran draftsman who's drawing my plans for a 1 car garage at a soon to be rental.

I may need to find a place in the garage where my grandson can reach it to announce "Pizza bell! Pizza for dinner!" This little fella is four years old, there are three others. He invented the "pizza bell."

Being a Grandpa is awesome isn't it? You reminded me I have a bell I pulled out of an old truck back in 1983. It's 12 volt though and being a 60 year old kid I just had to test it, It works! There is no markings on it and it's heavy.

 

[Rickster]

Used to work in an Auto Parts store back in high-school and we had a gas station across the street. Sometimes when their driveway bell went off and it was a car on the far island, we'd wait until the guy got there then we'd call their phone and watch him run back.... then hang up as he got close to the phone. (Note; back in the old days all the gas stations were full service and had wall phones).

I actually bought a Milton driveway bell with hose at an estate sale but the wife refused to let me set it up in the garage/drive. Still in a box out in the garage somewhere....

 

[jdoe213]

Growing up my dad made a lot of cool stuff out of junk. It was fun to see and even better to talk about now.

 

[spudley]

I got it from a veteran draftsman who's drawing my plans for a 1 car garage at a soon to be rental.

Maybe hook up a timer to remind the tenants to pay the rent...?

I vote for for the "pizza bell".

Great stories fellas. My dad ran a Cities Service station in the 50's, our house was always painted green and white.

 

[rburke65]

Rockstar.... You said..."I actually bought a Milton driveway bell with hose at an estate sale but the wife refused to let me set it up in the garage/drive. Still in a box out in the garage somewhere...." Your wife is still in a box in the garage somewhere?

 

[Rickster]

.... but the wife refused to let me set it up in the garage/drive. Still in a box out in the garage somewhere...." Your wife is still in a box in the garage somewhere?

 

[srr]

Well, guess what I found at the local car show...A service station bell, guy said it used to work so after lubing the striker free it works like a charm.

 

[SALIV8]

cool bell.

May want to delete the pic with your address on it.