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I'd be lucky if to even find one in here. Im serious. I've never seen a fire alarm station in this entire warehouse. Instead, I'd have to run around yelling fire until someone radios it in. L amazon safety
The warehouse I work at (a shipping company, not Amazon) has a fully working fire alarm system, but half of the pull stations and fire extinguishers are behind garbage cans, pallets, etc
@@PredictableEnigma I don't think most people are gonna lift the cover anyway, the space is almost big enough for two fingers to slip through, I imagine it's not that hard to activate it without caring about the cover at all
And the manager gave that key to an employee that day (instead of the actual store key), trusting them to lock up the store for their first time that night.
1:58 as a curious 7 year old, i pulled the cover off of a fire alarm at the local grocery store. i was so confused when an alarm went off even before i had pulled the lever.
My grade school had fire extinguishers in the halls, in glass fronted boxes with a handle to shatter the glass. It was tempered, so no big shards, which we found out when a girl in my class (7th or 8th grade, like 12 to 14 years old) decided to see what the pull to break handle did. There was no alarm, but the sudden sound of glass breaking and the tiny cubes raining down.
We had those alarmed stoppers over the fire alarms at my high school in the UK. They were mainly to stop people just pulling the alarms because you're bored and they just there asking to be pulled. People would instead just quickly open the stopper just a crack so it'd squeal really loud and annoy the teachers. Used to be a bit of a game to see how many stoppers you could set off in a row before someone got angry enough to come and to investigate.
Technically u can put the whole contraption in a fire extinguisher cabinet with break glass and a handle to open the cabinet, then it would be a 7 action pull station 😂!
I love how my recommends have gone from "wanna see a pull station collection?" to "wanna see how impractical we can make a pull station?" Paying attention to the background that makes up our everyday lives is something that gives me so much entertainment and joy. A pull station is not something we interact with in a day-to-day circumstance, and here we are watching someone homologate one with every interference device on the market. Haha!
Gee I sure am glad physical disabilities and injuries don't exist and everyone has the dexterity to to complete a rubix cube before activating the fire alarm
Perfect alarm for members in congress that accidentally pull alarms. On the serious side, being a retired electrical contractor, I found this very interesting. Most of my work was residential but I still was involved in commercial. Thank you.
You've made something quite remarkable, this video. It is an invaluable tool for teaching industrial engineering concepts, damn near every course I've taken could use this in some form. The components are great ideas on their own, but when slammed together without proper harmonization of the system it leads to horrific consequences, or at least reflects poorly on those that let it manifest. I hope that you will continue on this path as you demonstrate potential to enact great progress. However, you must hold fast to the passion and zeal that led you this far. People hate change, and people hate passion, so double-down on both and keep climbing young man!
In the UK, there's no pull handle. Instead you just break the glass. Sometimes the glass doesn't even break it just goes down, but on other call points the glass actually breaks.
I work with a medical proton beam, and we have an emergency stop behind one of those stoppers. We are taught that it is an absolute last resort compared to every other method of stopping the beam due to the damage that it causes, so I almost feel like we need to adopt your system, lol.
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One time when I was in the 1st grade (2006-07) they had the clear plastic alarm covers on all of the fire alarms and the teacher told us to line up on the hall way and the kids were playing with me and my head lifted the plastic cover off and the alarm siren started to go off LOUDLY and the teacher didn't want to believe that it was an accident. I remember I got in soo much trouble from that. After that day I didn't dare get close to one of those alarms again.
This video reminds me of the Fire Alarms we had at my old high school. If you used it it'd spray you with an invisible ink so the school could quickly identify any prankster trying to get out of class. Plus they tended to have camera's pointed at each alarm.
Now this will ENSURE nobody falsely pulls a fire alarm ever again because the stopper would make the siren sound and then it would take even longer to pull the alarm, so people there have more time to find who did it, for example in schools if someone pulled it in the hallways. This should be used in all schools imo, except for the office so if there was an actual fire, someone could easily go pull it in the office because nobody would have the guts to try to pull the alarm in the office with like 2+ secretaries in there with them
I've seen some pull stations that have a "glitter bomb" effect when pulled. (When the lever was pulled, a green pigment powder was released. The dye wasn't easily washable and would permanently stain fabrics) If there wasn't a fire emergency, it would be VERY clear who pulled the alarm
@@fsendventdsure, but i assume they would only bother investing in those sort of fire alarms if false alarms were a common issue. My school would have false alarms pretty much weekly. That said, my school was rather cheap about repairs. When one of the buildings were damage, they simply fenced off the area. No work to fix it was done until i had graduated, my sister entered and graduated, and then they got around to it once the youngest of us was there.
did the glass just get pushed out when you hit it? because I thought I heard just a thwack, not a break, ad then it sounded like it hit the floor and broke 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This feels like something out of a movie where the increasingly exasperated school principal keeps adding components to keep kids from pulling the fire alarm until the day of the talent show when the curtains catch fire and nobody can actually send the alarm and the whole school burns down
you could make this a lot more annoying by just swapping out the pull station entirely and replacing it with something like the FCI MS-2. while this mean there's no more glass, i think the fact that that pull station is more difficult to pull by design makes up for it. plus, you could add glass breaking back in by putting a fire extinguisher case over the entire thing or something like that
The Resident Evil edition of that would be to find a themed key to unlock each step, but each key is stored/hidden in a separate location involving puzzles of varying difficulties to solve.
I have some of the “stoppers” at my work for our students in the gym/basketball court, we have four stations in that court, as we have four doors, two sets of doubles that lead to the hallway and two that lead to the boys and girls lockers on either side of the stage. Occasionally our Dean or me gets notified when the stopper goes off and it’s always because a ball or a student bumped into it, they’re too sensitive in my opinion.
Funniest thing is, in my time in school the most surefire way to get fire alarms to go off was having wood shop class going. All the sanders going would put out enough dust to trigger the smoke detectors and I remember one spring we had a fire alarm going off every hour as a different class would come in and start sanding.
It says so much about humanity that something that is supposed to be used quickly and easily in case of an emergency needs this level of deterence from being played with 😂
The true test of whether or not you want to activate the alarm is when all the building's pulls are wired in series. Then it becomes a fun scavenger hunt to find all the stations.
Can we install these in congress? Keep certain legislators from pulling it to disrupt proceedings. Worst case, congress burns down and nothing of value is lost?
I believe that some of those covers with built in alarms can auto activate the alarm system if it isn't closed quickly enough, since I think a few fire alarms have been set off in that manner over the years at my various schools. This could be false though, since I've never witnessed an open cover auto activating the alarm system, though maybe I'll look at a cover and see if there are any wires connecting into the wall and or pull station.
I feel all of these steps would be great for schools where sometimes kids will pull on these just cause they think it's funny, but otherwise it might be a tad bit overkill-
the wire cage or plastic cage is prob good to have to avoid any damage or "accidently" pulls. the glass feels like its adding a small element of hazard to someone. like if it got pulled and some one bare foot stepped on the glass, and now has a hard time escaping because of a cut foot.
Next you need to mount it on a giant mousetrap, then surround the trap with barbed wired, then attach a shock fence unit to the wire. Finally have a TV in the room next to the alarm, and when someone runs up to it have a recording of a puppet give them instructions on how to pull the alarm. 😂
The sixth action is you first need to fill out a Fire Alarm Pull Request Activation Form and then the seventh action is making sure that you have two valid forms of identification or a passport.
my elementary school bolted the plastic fire alarm stopper to the wall for some dumb reason, which made the fire alarm impossible to pull. One time there was a carbon monoxide leak, the alarm only sounded 10 whole minutes after the leak happened because when people realized that the leak happened, they had to run all they way to the principal’s office and use the alarm that they had which didn’t have the cover. That school is so cooked
A few weeks ago at my job we had a bored toddler pull the fire alarm and mom was saying she didn't know they were so delicate. We may need to invest in some of these solutions... (I don’t blame the toddler, too young to know not to touch the red thing on the wall. I very much blame mom.)
Ok, now wire it up so it requires a dual key activation like a missile launch. Possibly with alarms more than an arm span distance away so it needs two people. Oh, and an electrical breaker box, zip ties on the cage guard, a valve on the sprinkler system, and no insulation or anti-freeze so the water has to melt first.
to get a true idea of how long this would take: find someone who's not seen this setup. tell them their goal is to pull the fire alarm. yell at them while they go to do it like "HURRY THERE'S A FIRE THERE'S A FIRE QUICK PULL THE FIRE ALARM DO IT DO IT DO IT" and time it. you'll have to put the hammer nearby and secure the glass a little bit first. it only seemed easy to you because you knew what you had to do so you gotta get someone who's completely unfamiliar with the setup.
I don't think I've ever seen the cage mounted with the hinge at the top before; always hinge at the bottom with the cage clipped into place at the top. Then again, I'm pretty sure all the ones I've ever seen behind a cage had a glass breaker, so letting the cage fall out of the way would make swinging the hammer easier.
Hey, what about the Potter T-bar pull station that is more like a dual action pull station, when it has “lift and pull” cover on it, and while the piece of glass is on the single action T-bar pull station, behind the “lift and pull” cover when it’s on the pull station, so it can really make it like a 5 action fire alarm pull station.
This reminds me of a fire alarm I saw that would trap the person's hand if pulled until someone with a key can unlock the alarm and free them. The idea was to reduce the number of times a fire alarm was pulled falsely. I'm sure you can figure out why this contraption was a bad idea.
I thought the purpose of a fire alarm is to quickly alert other people that there is a fire. Who knew it would be more like. "OMG There is a fire! Why can't I open the lid? OMG the fire is growing more, ok I got the lid open. OMG I"M ON FIRE. Ok perhaps I can get the cage up too, OMG I AM BURNING!!! Just one pane of glass, I can at least save someone if not ..... RIP." Yeah, I dunno perhaps I just should live by a lake or on a boat for now on.
With even more hoops to jump through from the other comments, you might as well just stick it to the ceiling, ensuring you have to call maintenance to bring a ladder.
love your content, but was watching a vid of ur alarms in the backyard and was wondering if you have neighbors who complain because i KNOW mine would sadly
How are you even meant to break the glass in the first place, without the mallet? Like for the cages with the fire extinguishers. I’m not gonna try to break glass with my fist, and I don’t have a hammer nearby.
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Very funny 😂😂. But also could be very deadly in a real-life emergency situation 😵
Yes, I am.
Yes, I am.
Yes, I am.
Yes, I am.
No, actually I'm not.
I don't know if I'm sure, let me go check if the fire is actually burning things
*DID YOU READ ALL FIVE COPIES OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS TO PULLING TO THE ALARM?*
bro just pushed forward but not down
5:35 if youre panicking in a fire emergency, it'll probably be 10 times more difficult than it is lol
id just stomp on it and itl open faster
@@LidLockTV how? its on the wall
@@Skibidigokyllyourself Kick the wall
I probably won't even know you could open the wire guard
this feels like something you would see in an amazon warehouse
I'd be lucky if to even find one in here. Im serious. I've never seen a fire alarm station in this entire warehouse. Instead, I'd have to run around yelling fire until someone radios it in. L amazon safety
The warehouse I work at (a shipping company, not Amazon) has a fully working fire alarm system, but half of the pull stations and fire extinguishers are behind garbage cans, pallets, etc
@@Just_Joshing024my location has an alarm for the hydrogen fuel cells in case they start to leak…
@@AJ-Palermo report that. not to supervisors, to the fire marshall. after a surprise inspection, every manager and supervisor is getting chewed out.
Nah, Amazon would glue it shut too
I honestly had no idea you could lift up those cages. As a child, I always imagined I would need to stick my fingers through it to activate the alarm
Genuinely a major engineering flaw, why you need to ask lots of people about these things I suppose.
And all it would take is a label at the bottom saying "LIFT COVER"
@@PredictableEnigma I don't think most people are gonna lift the cover anyway, the space is almost big enough for two fingers to slip through, I imagine it's not that hard to activate it without caring about the cover at all
I’ve just learned about this from the video as well, thought toes cages were welded XD
“As a child” sure lol
POV: you have SEVERE anxiety about false fire alarm activations
Well I get these things being installed in schools
Pick 1 thing and obsess over it your whole life!
And all of that can be solved easily by just making a fire alarm that catches firen when activated - now it's no longer a false alarm.
POV, you go to school at a zoo.
dog i was a maintenance tech for a middle school, this isn't enough
This.. this is comical. Now it needs to be a key version, where you ask the manager for it.
And the manager gave that key to an employee that day (instead of the actual store key), trusting them to lock up the store for their first time that night.
Just use 27 combination locks.
"In case of fire, solve sudoku"
There should be a nearby glass hammer. Also behind glass.
@@Scanlaid THAT is the best idea.
And a smoke detector so you need some fire by it to prove there is a fire
1:58 as a curious 7 year old, i pulled the cover off of a fire alarm at the local grocery store. i was so confused when an alarm went off even before i had pulled the lever.
Me too but as a freshman in high school. I was dumb.
I did this in 5th grade in a full cafeteria, was very embarrassed
i did this during gym class, nearly gave myself a heart attack, and then i was immediately met with the embarrassment of activating an alarm
My grade school had fire extinguishers in the halls, in glass fronted boxes with a handle to shatter the glass. It was tempered, so no big shards, which we found out when a girl in my class (7th or 8th grade, like 12 to 14 years old) decided to see what the pull to break handle did. There was no alarm, but the sudden sound of glass breaking and the tiny cubes raining down.
“You better not have a fire emergency here” lookin activation device
We had those alarmed stoppers over the fire alarms at my high school in the UK. They were mainly to stop people just pulling the alarms because you're bored and they just there asking to be pulled. People would instead just quickly open the stopper just a crack so it'd squeal really loud and annoy the teachers. Used to be a bit of a game to see how many stoppers you could set off in a row before someone got angry enough to come and to investigate.
Lol
this is the captcha of fire alarms
the reCaptcha of all fire alarms
@@nanettepaschall3006the hcaptcha
“You wanna pull this fire alarm? Do this Captcha to prove you’re not a robot”
A sixth and seventh action could be an out-of-order note inside to call building management in case of fire at x12345 using the phone on Floor 6.
Perhaps
The landlord special
Perhaps
You could add a random curtain, that would add an action
Sure, It might break code, but the curtain was very needed to stop the wall from yellowing
I laughed so hard when the glass just popped off and broke when it hit the ground.
Technically u can put the whole contraption in a fire extinguisher cabinet with break glass and a handle to open the cabinet, then it would be a 7 action pull station 😂!
Put it behind the fire extinguisher so you have to remove it to get to the pull station 😂
I love how my recommends have gone from "wanna see a pull station collection?" to "wanna see how impractical we can make a pull station?"
Paying attention to the background that makes up our everyday lives is something that gives me so much entertainment and joy. A pull station is not something we interact with in a day-to-day circumstance, and here we are watching someone homologate one with every interference device on the market. Haha!
Finally, someone actually did it. I’ve been wanting to see a fire alarm like this for a long time.
5- action? Rookie numbers right there. (I don't know how to do more)
Get a dual action push pull simplex Tbar, add glass to it, add a lift guard (like the ones at that school) to it, then add a cage and the stopper.
Yo bro you should add a ceiling fire alarm to your garage just for fun
Put one of those exit sign cages that screw into the wall over it
@@ASAPMEXICANBOI117 at least a remote strobe. audible device might be a bit loud.
You have to assemble the pull yourself, and do the wiring😂
Gee I sure am glad physical disabilities and injuries don't exist and everyone has the dexterity to to complete a rubix cube before activating the fire alarm
skill issue
“Skill issue” mfs when their bodies are horrifically burnt and they only have 1 usable hand:
@@9volt65 skill issue
@@9volt65 I'd feet
@@9volt65just stay away from the fire
Activate the pull station?
Are you sure?
Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this?
Is this really what you want?
Fine.
*BEEEEEEE*
Perfect alarm for members in congress that accidentally pull alarms.
On the serious side, being a retired electrical contractor, I found this very interesting. Most of my work was residential but I still was involved in commercial.
Thank you.
This is going to help my school SO MUCH! Kids ALWAYS pull the fire alarm falsely and we literally have more false alarms than actual drills.
You've made something quite remarkable, this video. It is an invaluable tool for teaching industrial engineering concepts, damn near every course I've taken could use this in some form. The components are great ideas on their own, but when slammed together without proper harmonization of the system it leads to horrific consequences, or at least reflects poorly on those that let it manifest. I hope that you will continue on this path as you demonstrate potential to enact great progress. However, you must hold fast to the passion and zeal that led you this far. People hate change, and people hate passion, so double-down on both and keep climbing young man!
In the UK, there's no pull handle. Instead you just break the glass.
Sometimes the glass doesn't even break it just goes down, but on other call points the glass actually breaks.
Most of them are plastic now.
Yeah it just goes (crack)
I work with a medical proton beam, and we have an emergency stop behind one of those stoppers. We are taught that it is an absolute last resort compared to every other method of stopping the beam due to the damage that it causes, so I almost feel like we need to adopt your system, lol.
If you want to make it even harder to pull, just gorilla glue the stopper and the handle of the pull shut. 👍🏼
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One time when I was in the 1st grade (2006-07) they had the clear plastic alarm covers on all of the fire alarms and the teacher told us to line up on the hall way and the kids were playing with me and my head lifted the plastic cover off and the alarm siren started to go off LOUDLY and the teacher didn't want to believe that it was an accident. I remember I got in soo much trouble from that. After that day I didn't dare get close to one of those alarms again.
It's actually 6 actions since you have to pull the dude who passed out 4 actions in from smoke inhalation away before you can complete the last action
This video reminds me of the Fire Alarms we had at my old high school. If you used it it'd spray you with an invisible ink so the school could quickly identify any prankster trying to get out of class. Plus they tended to have camera's pointed at each alarm.
A 6 action fire alarm pull station probably has a quest to go through the ring of power into Mount Doom first
Now this will ENSURE nobody falsely pulls a fire alarm ever again because the stopper would make the siren sound and then it would take even longer to pull the alarm, so people there have more time to find who did it, for example in schools if someone pulled it in the hallways. This should be used in all schools imo, except for the office so if there was an actual fire, someone could easily go pull it in the office because nobody would have the guts to try to pull the alarm in the office with like 2+ secretaries in there with them
This is nothing about the question or answer. It’s just your user icon is exactly how I feel right now.
I've seen some pull stations that have a "glitter bomb" effect when pulled.
(When the lever was pulled, a green pigment powder was released. The dye wasn't easily washable and would permanently stain fabrics)
If there wasn't a fire emergency, it would be VERY clear who pulled the alarm
And if it was an emergency, you can identify the hero
okay but imagine if there was a fire, like wouldn't it make your day just that much worse if it also ruined your favorite shirt
@@fsendventdsure, but i assume they would only bother investing in those sort of fire alarms if false alarms were a common issue. My school would have false alarms pretty much weekly. That said, my school was rather cheap about repairs. When one of the buildings were damage, they simply fenced off the area. No work to fix it was done until i had graduated, my sister entered and graduated, and then they got around to it once the youngest of us was there.
For when you absolutely want to make sure everything burns to the ground. 👏
My autistic ass watching a video about fire alarms at 5 in the morning instead of sleeping
I feel called out
Real
I just got called out 😭
Apparently I have found my people
@@Chaotic_evil_duck indeed comrade
Firealarmdude is such a goated channel name
So this is where all the fire alarm activators from my school went, give them back please.
Of course of all things i watch tonight i watch this but it is definitely satisfying
did the glass just get pushed out when you hit it? because I thought I heard just a thwack, not a break, ad then it sounded like it hit the floor and broke 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sounds like it
me when im evil
Lollll
EW FUREY!
You're so evil
Ah yes, the alarm for my fire alarm so I know my fire alarm is about to alarm. Really helpful.
This feels like something out of a movie where the increasingly exasperated school principal keeps adding components to keep kids from pulling the fire alarm until the day of the talent show when the curtains catch fire and nobody can actually send the alarm and the whole school burns down
You need them to solve a captcha, or beat some sort of mini-game.
you could make this a lot more annoying by just swapping out the pull station entirely and replacing it with something like the FCI MS-2. while this mean there's no more glass, i think the fact that that pull station is more difficult to pull by design makes up for it. plus, you could add glass breaking back in by putting a fire extinguisher case over the entire thing or something like that
The Resident Evil edition of that would be to find a themed key to unlock each step, but each key is stored/hidden in a separate location involving puzzles of varying difficulties to solve.
I have some of the “stoppers” at my work for our students in the gym/basketball court, we have four stations in that court, as we have four doors, two sets of doubles that lead to the hallway and two that lead to the boys and girls lockers on either side of the stage. Occasionally our Dean or me gets notified when the stopper goes off and it’s always because a ball or a student bumped into it, they’re too sensitive in my opinion.
Funniest thing is, in my time in school the most surefire way to get fire alarms to go off was having wood shop class going. All the sanders going would put out enough dust to trigger the smoke detectors and I remember one spring we had a fire alarm going off every hour as a different class would come in and start sanding.
Get a mini stopper III and put it inside the big stopper to make it 6-action
this is exactly what i was thinking
It says so much about humanity that something that is supposed to be used quickly and easily in case of an emergency needs this level of deterence from being played with 😂
This isn’t a legitimate installation
Idk how I got recommended this but, SICK
The true test of whether or not you want to activate the alarm is when all the building's pulls are wired in series. Then it becomes a fun scavenger hunt to find all the stations.
he made some of my most niche yet banal thoughts into a reality
I'm actually starting my new position as a Fire Installer level 3 at the Simplex division of my job in a few days!
Another thing that would make it a pain in the ass would be to install a break rod, or really just anything that can mimic one.
Can we install these in congress? Keep certain legislators from pulling it to disrupt proceedings. Worst case, congress burns down and nothing of value is lost?
I believe that some of those covers with built in alarms can auto activate the alarm system if it isn't closed quickly enough, since I think a few fire alarms have been set off in that manner over the years at my various schools. This could be false though, since I've never witnessed an open cover auto activating the alarm system, though maybe I'll look at a cover and see if there are any wires connecting into the wall and or pull station.
Normal places: "Pull in case of fire."
This thing: "Die confused in case of fire and notify no one."
1:24 Tss.
1:56 Tss.
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5:45 Tss.
I feel all of these steps would be great for schools where sometimes kids will pull on these just cause they think it's funny, but otherwise it might be a tad bit overkill-
the wire cage or plastic cage is prob good to have to avoid any damage or "accidently" pulls.
the glass feels like its adding a small element of hazard to someone. like if it got pulled and some one bare foot stepped on the glass, and now has a hard time escaping because of a cut foot.
Next you need to mount it on a giant mousetrap, then surround the trap with barbed wired, then attach a shock fence unit to the wire. Finally have a TV in the room next to the alarm, and when someone runs up to it have a recording of a puppet give them instructions on how to pull the alarm. 😂
They need these in middle and high school for all the false alarms
dumbass comment and i wont waste my time to say why
...With options to add several additional layers during exam times!
@@Skibidigokyllyourself: Then you shouldn't have wasted your time to insult its author about it for no good reason.
You need a digital lock on the cage so you can put a “select the squares with a motorcycle” robot test on it
The sixth action is you first need to fill out a Fire Alarm Pull Request Activation Form and then the seventh action is making sure that you have two valid forms of identification or a passport.
Now it need to be locked with a combination lock where the key is "9-1-1" or "9-9-9" (if you're british)
my elementary school bolted the plastic fire alarm stopper to the wall for some dumb reason, which made the fire alarm impossible to pull. One time there was a carbon monoxide leak, the alarm only sounded 10 whole minutes after the leak happened because when people realized that the leak happened, they had to run all they way to the principal’s office and use the alarm that they had which didn’t have the cover. That school is so cooked
when you really want the insurance money for the entire building
A few weeks ago at my job we had a bored toddler pull the fire alarm and mom was saying she didn't know they were so delicate. We may need to invest in some of these solutions... (I don’t blame the toddler, too young to know not to touch the red thing on the wall. I very much blame mom.)
Don't forget, many of those stopper shells are armed with a purple powder/die to identify who pulled the alarm.
Lol!! Never thought you would make this, amazing video
This would be good to be with my school because the fire alarms are deactivated and not armed😭😭😭
Lawsuit time!
Teacher: What happened?
Student: I accidentally pulled it
Ok, now wire it up so it requires a dual key activation like a missile launch. Possibly with alarms more than an arm span distance away so it needs two people. Oh, and an electrical breaker box, zip ties on the cage guard, a valve on the sprinkler system, and no insulation or anti-freeze so the water has to melt first.
All its missing is a 2FA verification code that you call 911 to obtain
to get a true idea of how long this would take: find someone who's not seen this setup. tell them their goal is to pull the fire alarm. yell at them while they go to do it like "HURRY THERE'S A FIRE THERE'S A FIRE QUICK PULL THE FIRE ALARM DO IT DO IT DO IT" and time it. you'll have to put the hammer nearby and secure the glass a little bit first. it only seemed easy to you because you knew what you had to do so you gotta get someone who's completely unfamiliar with the setup.
I don't think I've ever seen the cage mounted with the hinge at the top before; always hinge at the bottom with the cage clipped into place at the top. Then again, I'm pretty sure all the ones I've ever seen behind a cage had a glass breaker, so letting the cage fall out of the way would make swinging the hammer easier.
That’s one way to do it
Now replace it with a Simplex 2099-9762 key-only station, and put the key in a combo lock box!
Hey, what about the Potter T-bar pull station that is more like a dual action pull station, when it has “lift and pull” cover on it, and while the piece of glass is on the single action T-bar pull station, behind the “lift and pull” cover when it’s on the pull station, so it can really make it like a 5 action fire alarm pull station.
For your next challenge... make it Jamaal Bowman-proof...
This reminds me of a fire alarm I saw that would trap the person's hand if pulled until someone with a key can unlock the alarm and free them. The idea was to reduce the number of times a fire alarm was pulled falsely.
I'm sure you can figure out why this contraption was a bad idea.
Five action? I like that.
In case of emergency:
Answer my riddles three...
Now you gotta make an 10 stage alarm
You need to make it harder! Have it be as cumbersome as possible. It's wonderful irony
You should make one that requires two separate people to turn a key at exactly the same time
I thought the purpose of a fire alarm is to quickly alert other people that there is a fire. Who knew it would be more like.
"OMG There is a fire! Why can't I open the lid? OMG the fire is growing more, ok I got the lid open. OMG I"M ON FIRE. Ok perhaps I can get the cage up too, OMG I AM BURNING!!! Just one pane of glass, I can at least save someone if not ..... RIP."
Yeah, I dunno perhaps I just should live by a lake or on a boat for now on.
This is more inconvenient than Helpful. It May stop false Activations, but you’d be dead from the Fire by the time you Pulled it down.
Well, some people won’t mind, as they rather have 1 or maybe 3 people dead rather then say 200
This video isn't a serious video. It says in the description "I thought it would be fun"
@ I know.
tbf, Not including the mallet to break the glass has the same number of actions, but now one is much harder.
With even more hoops to jump through from the other comments, you might as well just stick it to the ceiling, ensuring you have to call maintenance to bring a ladder.
love your content, but was watching a vid of ur alarms in the backyard and was wondering if you have neighbors who complain because i KNOW mine would sadly
No neighbors live close enough to
This is the kind of security you put on a pull station that would *start* a fire.
funny idea would be to add another pull station to open the door and then have to do this, making this 10 steps or 11 steps technically
How are you even meant to break the glass in the first place, without the mallet? Like for the cages with the fire extinguishers. I’m not gonna try to break glass with my fist, and I don’t have a hammer nearby.
Should have put a padlock.
A politician with a (D) next to his name would still figure it out in a second.
have one of those interlocking braided metal piece puzzles that you have to do to get the hammer
honestly you should've tried putting one of those sti mini stoppers before the regular stopper, not sure if that is possible but yeah
There’s no chance that would have fit
Bop it! Twist it! Pull it!
Jamaal Bowen would still say he thought it would open a door
The fact that the company that made those fire alarms is named "Simplex" 💀
feel the irony lol
That isnt a simplex, thats a complex!