Woodchips: "Sound My Own Horn"

     When I bought the 32 it came with various parts which were not installed on the car. Two of those parts are the chrome horns that mount on the headlamp bar. I really like the look that it adds to the coupe. Both of the horns had several small dents in the bugle portion of the horn. I was able to remove these to my satisfaction with the use of several different sized wooden dowels. When I took one of the horns apart I discovered that it was missing the sounding diaphragm and it had also been cut and shortened about 3/4 of an inch.
   The search was on, after about 2 weeks I located one on CL (craigslist) in Penn., I bought it and had it shipped to me. It too had several small dents which I was told about prior to buying, that's alright, what's life without challenges? I removed the dents, it was complete, and after polishing and adjusting, I was able to "Sound My Own Horn" X2 They are going to look great on the car!
     In my opinion the Internet is one of the greatest resources a person can have. I hadn't really worked on horns before and I really didn't have a good working knowledge of the way that they operate. I found a company (Vintage Noise), located in Australia, they had copies of the original Delco-Remy service manual for the horn. Vintage Noise makes and sells brass horns and horn bulbs for antique cars, check out their website at www.vintagenoise.com. The horns on the 32 and even modern horns are an electro-magnetic device that vibrates by interrupting the magnetic coils circuit many times a second. This causes the sounding diaphragm to hit the core of the magnet making a tapping sound that we hear coming from the horn. If properly tuned that tapping is happening so fast that we do not hear any interruption in the noise being emitted.