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Unread post by **Peter.N.** » 31 Jan 2019, 10:40

It was white outside when I woke up, I thought we had more snow, but just a very heavy frost. Still a little snow left though, and quite a lot of cherry tree.

Peter

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 31 Jan 2019, 14:58

white exec wrote: 31 Jan 2019, 09:54 While looking for a picture for a particular 11-year-old's birthday card, came across this...

Taking-apart-by-Gabi-Menashe.jpg

It even has one of these in the bottom corner!
Eddie's avatar 1.jpg

A lovely 746

A proper telephone

Howled at the wiring diagram

It reminds me... Much military and government grade electronics back in the good old days was wired with pink wires only and tracing them could be fun... The better stuff did at least have identifiers at ach end of a wire but that did not always help when faced with a big loom composed entirely of many identical pink wires...

Not that much different to a 90s Citroen wiring loom really

Unread post by **Peter.N.** » 31 Jan 2019, 15:06

OK if they are not fixed down tight, you can pull one and see which one moves the other end.

Peter

Unread post by **bobins** » 31 Jan 2019, 16:06

A site I visited a few years ago once had a room full of these in storage ready for use.......

: Phones - own work

They used to be on the end of the lines from these......

: Switchboard - own work

white exec · Unread post by **white exec** » 31 Jan 2019, 16:48

Once, in my late teens, I put together a piece of kit, and decided "for neatness' sake" to do it all in thin grey wire. When it came to testing . . .

. . . Never again made that mistake!

white exec · Unread post by **white exec** » 31 Jan 2019, 17:02

My brother-in-law worked fr BT for some time, lookimg after several exchanges full of Strowger ekectro-mechanical equipment. Each of these were multi-floor buildings, full of gear. After it finally went digital, the buildings were almost empty, except for the new kit in a small part of one floor, which did it all, and was "serviced" from a single PC.

Another memory was of West Sussex County Council, where in the early '80s we replaced old bell-type internal phones in schools with new phones and PABX exchange switchboards. The phones themselves were brand new push-button Trimphones (not the dial type, which fell over when you dialled!), bought by the thousand from BT for just £1 each. Our own school took best part of a hundred of them, all in two-tone green.

Unread post by **bobins** » 31 Jan 2019, 17:20

Not quite Strowger, but not far off.....

: WG exchange - own work

...and some of the plumbing from 'round the back

: WG wiring - own work

Unread post by **Peter.N.** » 31 Jan 2019, 17:24

Wouldn't suit me I'm colour blind. I wonder how I lasted in electronics for 50 years.

Peter

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 01 Feb 2019, 06:30

bobins wrote: 31 Jan 2019, 17:20 Not quite Strowger, but not far off.....

urft fone.jpg

...and some of the plumbing from 'round the back

urft wires.jpg

That brings back some very happy memories

It's snowed here this morning

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I so love running in virgin snow and took full advantage of it

: Own Work and Strava

No worries about slipping in the fresh stuff, the danger comes later when hundreds of feet have compressed it and turned it to ice... No chance of running on it then...

Absolutely magical - a winter wonderland

: Own Work

NewcastleFalcon · Unread post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 01 Feb 2019, 08:37

Excellent POTD's Jim! Well worth a "like" from me!

WE had a relatively mild night last night compared to the day before. How do I know that? There was water coming out of the tap this morning!

REgards Neil

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 01 Feb 2019, 08:40

NewcastleFalcon wrote: 01 Feb 2019, 08:37 WE had a relatively mild night last night compared to the day before. How do I know that? There was water coming out of the tap this morning!

And no need to break the rime of ice sitting in the loo I guess

Unread post by **myglaren** » 01 Feb 2019, 08:49

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 01 Feb 2019, 08:50

myglaren wrote: 01 Feb 2019, 08:49 8r0fk0z1und21.jpg

Love it!

That'll take some flushing!

NewcastleFalcon · Unread post by **NewcastleFalcon** » 01 Feb 2019, 08:52

WE dont bother with those fancy water closets up here Jim

Henry Moule's earth closet, improved version c1875
Musphot [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Regards Neil

Unread post by **myglaren** » 01 Feb 2019, 09:10

Not too far removed from the toilets on Käringön, Sweden.
They were a lidded container that could be sealed.
No vehicles on the island other than a tractor and trailer that collected all the tubs weekly and took them to a ferry for treatment on the mainland.
One week, the trailer tipped up and the tubs spilled off, loosing their lids and contents.
Lots of the residents left the island for a couple of weeks at that point.

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