Help needed, I need 146 reasons not to buy this.

Oh hail yes.
 
Look at the reviews. here's a good reason:

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Do it! But make sure it's mounted on the most unsuspecting car you can. Putting it on a jacked up truck just ruins it all.
 
Can't help you there. One of my best friends in Albuquerque haunted the Santa Fe RR salvage sales. He took his new Dodge diesel, added a compressor, drilled holes in the roof and mounted surplus Santa Fe railroad horns.

He was an interesting guy. Owned a hot air balloon , a searchlight business (using carbon arc WWII searchlights and their Ford industrial 4 cyl generator), a commercial fireworks business, and carried a SPAS 12ga behind the truck seat for self defense. He was a metrologist by trade.

RR horns are really really loud.
 
kcult said:
The link I clicked stated "with compressor."

Are we seeing different products?
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In none of the pictures is a compressor. That little red thing might blow some air, but no where enough to achive 150db.
 
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A bunch of actual train horns were stolen off actual trains a year or two ago near us. @Scsmith42 reported it here.
 
My BIL has one. Great fun!
 
LeeMajors said:
There is absolutely no reason to NOT buy it
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I understand the sentiment, but...

My father, who was a Big Azzhole and somewhat of a Bully, installed such a thing in his station wagon when we were kids. Truck horn, compressor and tank... it was a done right. However, I believe it satisfied him more than it turned anyone's head, the few times he blew it.

If you wanna be like my dad, whose memory is best forgotten, then go for it!
 
MacEntyre said:
I understand the sentiment, but...

My father, who was a Big Azzhole and somewhat of a Bully, installed such a thing in his station wagon when we were kids. Truck horn, compressor and tank... it was a done right. However, I believe it satisfied him more than it turned anyone's head, the few times he blew it.

If you wanna be like my dad, whose memory is best forgotten, then go for it!
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Every man on this forum has considered installing one of these.

Hell, my old man secretly wished to mount 50BMGs
 
Don't know what that website is, but for the money why not? As long as you can return it if it's bullshit...
 
I have a friend that had a set of Nathan’s Bells on his semi and swears he causes a little ol lady to rear end the car in front of her at a stop light she was sitting on a set of RR tracks and he eased up behind her and nailed them

Said she didn’t hesitate at all she stomped the gas and nailed the car in front of her LOLOLOLOL

last of the story is he sat there for a minute and thought about it and said to himself it just ain’t gonna be good when the cops show up and see this set of bells so he just eases by rolls on

Not sure how true it is but it was a hoot to hear him tell it
 
I would like a horn that sound like tires skidding and then metal impact noises for those slow pokes walking across the parking lot
 
We've discussed this before, when talking about how to deal with liberal protesters doing road blocks. That and electrifying the skin of your vehicle. :D
 
Pilot Truck stops carry them. One of the drivers mounted one on his truck. They are loud.
 
Darkhorse said:
I have a friend that had a set of Nathan’s Bells on his semi and swears he causes a little ol lady to rear end the car in front of her at a stop light she was sitting on a set of RR tracks and he eased up behind her and nailed them

Said she didn’t hesitate at all she stomped the gas and nailed the car in front of her LOLOLOLOL

last of the story is he sat there for a minute and thought about it and said to himself it just ain’t gonna be good when the cops show up and see this set of bells so he just eases by rolls on

Not sure how true it is but it was a hoot to hear him tell it
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Never heard of the term before but an interesting read at Wiki :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Manufacturing



My friend ended up using the horns with discretion because they were SO loud the results on other drivers were unpredictable. That didn't stop him from lighting me up with them when I crossed the crosswalk in front of him in the parking lot at work for example.
 
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Mike Overlay said:
I would like a horn that sound like tires skidding and then metal impact noises for those slow pokes walking across the parking lot
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A fond high school memory, a bud had a ‘69 Camaro SS that was built to the gills. A thuggite saunters our in front of us with 18” steps, Brian dumps the throttle. The roar of the tires and engine caused him to suddenly be able to outperform Michael Jordan’s leaps.
 
We had a good 2 Chime Horn on the Tug Whitefoot. Someone told us the 65' Whitefoot had a horn far louder than the 200' Islander ferry boat. Every time we returned home, we blew a towing blast (1 long, 2 shorts) when we rounded the headland outside the harbor. The whole town knew that Whitefoot was back.
 
I can give you 1 reason not to buy that, it is cheap China crap, that little compressor won't push enough air to get any good sound out of it and will probably burn up after little use. Buy a real one.
 
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