Monday November 15th 2010

Winter projects are heating up at Sharon CD garage. The utility truck is still being put back together. A external battery was installed to power up the new generator. The light rack was reinstalled in the bed to hold out 1500 watt flood lights and 1000 watt spot lights.

Our newly acquired bandsaw has had some issues, when using it to cut materials, the cut is not always square. This was investigated and needs further work.

The radio console project was is coming together and will be a great addition to our office/radio room.

Minor renovations will be starting shortly on our staff/squad room. Ordered materials are, new ceiling tiles, light bulbs, light covers, and a new shop light for over our locker area. With the addition of new windows last year, the room needs to be finished off with these new materials.

Emergency Generator Maintenance

Each radio repeater site for the Town of Sharon radios has an emergency backup generator. These generators will power the radio communications for the town if power were to go out. The generators were installed in 2007.

The generators run off a supply of propane that will last for many days.Generators run a test cycle every week to make sure they will power up in case of a power outage. Civil Defense is in charge of the maintenance of the equipment, which is done about every 2 years, with periodic checks throughout the year.

Both generators had their oil and filter changed, air filters and batteries checked. This maintenance was done successfully over the past weekend. See pictures below.

Picture from the Sharon Fire Tower looking east towards Boston, MA.

Monday November 8th 2010

A slow evening this week at Sharon CD. Members are in between projects this week and will be gearing up for winter projects next week.

Preliminary work has begun on the diesel generator install on the Bucket Truck. Layout lines and ideas for mounting brackets were discussed.

Last week, we did not have a blog entry but activities included our weekly round up meeting with Director Polimer, our monthly radio tests with other area CD/EMAs.

The Utility truck was run this past week for a few hours to break in the generator. Some 240v lights were used. See the pic below for a new mounting idea that was used. This mounting idea spurred buying hex head lag bolts that are now in each CD vehicle so that lights can be mounted on any surface using lag bolts.