Hello all,
I will start by apologizing for my absence on the forum, though it might've felt like a blessing to some of you. Basically I've been busy with school during the week and the 765 on the weekend, so I haven't had much free time to terrorize everyone on here. But I thought it would be nice to share my latest and greatest restoration project with everyone.
I started with this. No arm, no lenses, and a lot of rust.
I had recently been enrolled in a woodshop class, and I took it upon myself to build an arm for this signal. So I digitally designed and scaled a cardboard cutout, and made it in our school's laser cutting machine.
Then after tracing the cutout on the wood, I fired up the bandsaw and made my cut.
After making some adjustments and drilling some holes, I attached the arm.
I will call out Kelly Lynch for accidentally photo bombing me while I was taking that picture! 
I slapped a coat of red paint on the front of the arm and some black on the back of it and called it a day.
I finished up the project yesterday at the shop. I wirewheeled the manifold of the semaphore and repainted it because the first paint job I did was terrible. I then painted the stripe on the arm, and I will say, it looks absolutely fantastic. All I need to do now is acquire some lenses for it.
