Horn upgrades? Ebay Air horns? Not Dixie, La Cucaracha etc

[Squire_Dawson]

The copper wire windings are black, this must be a preservative. This is now a working horn.

 

 

Contacts are adjusted by slackening the locknut and taking up with the adjuster nut (there is no screw as I previously thought).

 

 

These are the contacts, as you can see they are touching. Yes the arm is quite thick and should not be able to be moved.

 

 

I have a video to come soon as well, they are LOUD.

 

[Matt]

Great photos Squire, thanks! So do I want the points to just barely touch one another? Also could you get a photo of which order the top assembly parts should be in? I took mine apart but didn't take note of the order.

 

Edit: It seems I have an early and a later one. The early one does not have the capacitor/resistor (?) and is the working one while the later non working one is the same as the one you have there. I tried to copy the layout from the early one onto the later one but there appears to be some minor differences as now touching the wiring of the broken late one to a battery is trying to weld the wiring to the terminals.

 

Here is what I am working with. Others that I can find photos of don't seem to have the same four copper plates.

 

[Squire_Dawson]

Okay, no problem. I will check again tomorrow. I would adjust little by little and test in between adjustments, then once it is sounding turn it another flat or two, I don't think it's critical.

[Squire_Dawson]