Pots 66 Block
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Last modified: December 31 1969 16:00:00
A nice one like the one pictured, can easily cost you $80 or more new. I found one at a surplus electronics company for about $20, working except for having had its clips clipped. So I also ordered a pair of the clips, got some wire, and repaired the thing. However, you can make one out of a cheap phone, provided it's the right kind. This is somewhat hard to describe, but, the phone needs to be the kind with all of the circuitry, INCLUDING the hang-up button or hook, in the handset. This can actually be difficult to find -- most electronics places have phones that are too 'nice' for this purpose, i.e. they are too complicated and cannot function without the base AND handset, and that just won't do. Try a chain pharmacy -- many have selections of small, cheap appliances, and here you are most likely to find the cheapest, shittiest telephone on Earth, which is just what you want. The kind that doesn't have a base, but rather that you 'hang up' by setting down on a flat surface. It should not cost more than $10.
A cheapo phone suitable for transformation into a cheapo buttset.
A 'slimline'-style phone will also work, provided that, again, the hanger-upper is in the handset. Note this carefully in the picture. Sometimes there is a hangup button on both the base and the handset -- that's okay too -- but many have it ONLY in the base, and those aren't suitable for conversion, at least I haven't been able to figure out how.
Once you have the phone, the rest is fairly simple -- cut the wire, discard the base, and crimp or solder two alligator clips on the ends of the two center wires (regular clips from Radio Shack will do, you don't need the insulation-piercing kind, but if you can get them with rubber sleeves, do so...when they're clipped to the ends of a wire, they tend to swing around and bump into each other and cause shorts.) The wires in the phone cord will probably be red and green, but not necessarily. The tricky thing here is that they are typically tiny, delicate wires, and if you don't provide some kind of support or strain relief, they will quickly fatigue and break where they are attached to the alligator clips. So what I usually do is carefully slice the outer insulation of the wire right down the middle, strip (sometimes with fire) the wire, and run it and its half of the insulation into the collar of the alligator clip together, then crimp down on both (making sure that the actual wire makes contact with the alligator clip's metal collar.) This way, the insulation acts as a splint for the thin wire inside.
Now, for the really cool tool, which is worth whatever it costs:
The Almighty Tone Generator and Probe Kit.
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You take the small square part with the wires dangling off of it, put a 9-volt battery in it, plug its modular connector into your wall jack, and turn on its toggle switch. Then you go to the box and poke the probe near the bundle of wires, and the probe will make an audible warbling beep that gets louder as you get closer to the right wire. It's pure magic. Actually it's induction and is quite simple...nah, it's magic. When you have a meaningless and frightening bundle of wires to confront, and you need to find the other end of one, there is simply no substitute for this tool. The alligator clips on the tone generator allow you to use it with bare wire as well.
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That's all for now...