[GreenKeys] Telephone Hand Crank Dynamo

[Richard Knoppow]

      There is actually an old terminal and protector box on the side of 
my house.  It was in service until a few years ago when the drop was 
replaced.  There is now both a POTS phone and a DSL line coming in but 
the old box is still there used as a junction for the new wiring.  This 
one has the long fuses and carbon protector.   It was probably installed 
when the house was moved from its original location about 1951.   Such 
moves were common in Los Angeles because freeway construction often went 
through neighborhoods where the houses were worth more than the land 
making them worth moving.  The house itself was evidently built about 
1921.  No sign of the original phone installation.   The area it was in 
(and is still in) was one of the first automatic (dial) installations in 
the city so it probably never had a wall type phone.   The first house 
we owned in L.A. had a 200 series wasp-waist phone with the ringer in a 
box on the wall.  Replaced soon after we bought the place with a 500 
series phone.

On 6/17/2015 9:43 AM, Bob & Linda wrote:
> Boy, you stir the old juices in my brain.  How many of those old 
> protectors did I work on.  100's and 100's of them.  I used to have a 
> couple in a collection of old phone stuff here.  Gave it all to a 
> collector at one of the local offices.  Thanks for the walk down 
> memory lane.
>
> Bob Smith WB6ODR, Prescott, AZ
>
> On 6/17/2015 8:32 AM, Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
>> On 6/17/2015 10:05 AM, Larry wrote:
>>> All lines coming and going out of the CO were protected by small
>>> "carbons".
>> <http://pre-wire.tripod.com/interfaces_and_protectors.html>
>>
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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL

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