Popular Post kicker Posted July 31, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted July 31, 2015 I picked some old bakelite magneto telephones recently, I had heard you can quite easily hook them up and have a closed circuit telephone line, turns out it is pretty easy. What better way for the wife to let me know it's dinner time while I am working in the garage, with the gentle chime of bells awoken from their slumber by a hand cranked magneto, aaahhhh technology. Party line party times One of the phones I got was the phone in the scoreboard at Athletic Park. There seems to be some slight variation between the telephones, mostly in the wiring, they usually have a diagram stuck inside which is handy. All the mags look like they are from the same manufacturer, I had to swap one from a front crank unit into a side crank one, just had to change over some brackets. As far as connecting them together, each phone should have 4 wires, positive, negative, line 1 and line 2. These are just connected to the same on the other phone, positive to positive, negative to negative etc. They will now be able to ring each other by cranking the handles. To get the voice circuit working a battery can be connected to each phone, 3-6v seems to be enough, I have a little AA battery holder on each which is connected to the positive and negative terminals. All hooked up and working again Next step is to run some wire to the garage and swap one of the cases to a nicer one for the house, should fit in quite nice as the house was built in the late '20s 31 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Steelies Posted July 31, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted July 31, 2015 that is fuckin legendary. side note, old man had a phone magneto hooked up to silvered toilet seat in one of his flats, handle in wall labelled 'dont turn' 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicker Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share Posted July 31, 2015 that is fuckin legendary. side note, old man had a phone magneto hooked up to silvered toilet seat in one of his flats, handle in wall labelled 'dont turn' That's gold, I have a spare one that could be put to use, maybe a bike with the mag hooked up to the crank and a sprung seat with no cover 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tele29 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Awesome idea man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Value Buddy Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 So cool. You a wizard. Athletic Park scoreboard too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicker Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 Just picked up another one, a wall mount one for the garage. I better get some cable to run from the house now, will probably bury it, but not very deep because I can't be bothered 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Bury it deep man. You don't want those cunts at the GCSB finding out when your dinner is ready......... 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoKer Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 bro wireless is all the rage these days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Steelies Posted September 10, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2015 refuse to converse unless Mrs. Kicker answers 'operator' with a peg on her nose 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Oh sweet. I have two of these. I get them out tomorrow and take pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.