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lpbkdotnet

Yay!

I’m taking a to

Now I just have to work out how to get it out of the shed!

Screenshot of a email title that says: Your EMF proposal "A 1950s Telephone Exchange" has been accepted!
#emf#emfcamp#emfcamp2024
lpbkdotnet

Thought I’d give the bit of a workout this evening.

I’ll be running it in a lot over the next couple of months to give any faults time to show themselves before

Tonight though, I ran 100 calls through it (25 per selector) and had 0 failures!

That’s not bad considering I haven’t run it over the winter!

Large grey cabinet full of industrial looking equipment, reels of cable, a couple of analogue panel meters etc. this is an electromechanical phone exchange built in 1956(ish)
#telephone#phone#electroMechanical
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lpbkdotnet

Went through all the line circuits on the this evening, found plenty of faults - including some really odd ones…

The weirdest one is some kind of off-by-one hunting behaviour on the linefinders that will really need the diagrams!

There are more than enough working line circuits for my EMF needs - but I would really like to clear as many faults as possible before then.

Busy weeks ahead!

Notepad page covered in cryptic pencil scribblings that between them give me the details of which line circuits work and which have faults, along with brief notes about the nature of each fault.
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lpbkdotnet

There are a lot of moving parts to get right for this "take the strowger to EMF" plan to actually happen.

Technical requirements, logistics, what spares do I need to pack, what signage/info I need to wrap around it to make it "work" as a display...

I've started dumping ideas into a git repo to get them out of my head and assorted notebooks...

It's private for now, but I hope to be able to make it public eventually... but here's the equivalent of that cryptic notebook page from last week

Screenshot of a github rendered markdown file, showing a table mapping out all 50 extensions on the strowger exchange, and their current status. Most lines are indicated with a tick (denoting OK) although 7 are indicated with a cross (currently faulty) Also shown are which extensions are configured as incoming/otgoing tie lines. Final piece of useful information in the screen shot reads "We will probably only use the Level 3 tie lines for EMD, the 50 tie line is "special" and the related equipment won't be available."
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sunflowerinrain

@lpbkdotnet Beautiful.
The MOD used to hang on to some as backup because only a direct bombstrike would knock them out.

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lpbkdotnet

@marlies @CuTEL haha! Excellent!

I love it when a photo sparks other senses.

In my case, I can /smell/ this photo. Old telephone kit smells gorgeous! It's all oil, hot magnet wire, paxolin and dust with a faint overtone of coronal discharge if it's been misbehaving 😀

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