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Frank Walsh

Aug 10, 2020

The San Antonio Fire Museum needs help identifying a possible Gamewell Alarm System Component. The sticker on the back is long gone.

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Frank Walsh

Aug 21, 2020

Forgot to mention... I'd been searching for Gamewell Collectors online without success. I'm one of those cranky old guys who "don't do Facebook, etc." I thought I remembered that York, PA had an active collectors group, but posts to the York Fire Museum have gone unanswered. I'll find someone with a Facebook account and ask them to edumacate the old guy.

Frank Walsh

Aug 21, 2020

Thanks, David! Since we posted the query, Lee Z. managed to get the thing unstuck. Pulling the handle now generates a satisfying "whir" internally, leading us to believe the thingamajig was some sort of signal generator. We are hoping to take the random Gamewll bits we have and display what their function was. Any idea what we should call the thing? No labels remain.

David Lewis

Aug 21, 2020

Frank - It looks like it's the face of a transmitter. This would be used by the fire alarm office to re-transmit alarms to (across) various circuits.

For this  - and any fire alarm related question, you should try the Gamewell Collector's Group on Facebook. . .  Very knowledgeable folks

https://www.facebook.com/game

specifically see: 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/gamewellfirealarmbox/?post_id=10156296077350872

https://www.facebook.com/groups/gamewellfirealarmbox/?post_id=10156271553535872