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- The ABC's of Payphones part 4.
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- MAD!'s most popular series!
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- The Telephone lock.
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- Rotary payphones dial by having the number roll back to its original
- position. It breaks the signal the number of times indicated.
- You can achieve the same effect by tapping rapidly on the little button
- at the top of the phone (the one you use to hang up with).
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- Let's say you wanted to call 123-4567. You would tap on the number
- once, pause half a second, tap rapidly twice, pause, tap three times
- fast, pause, and so on. It takes a little practice to get the numbers
- right, but it does work. So much for locked telephones.
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- OFF HOOK.
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- Everyone knows the old trick where you would call someone on a payphone,
- then walk away and it would stay off the hook till someone hung it up,
- or a ma bell repair crew came and hung it up. Well, that doesn't work
- anymore. It resets itself within 4-5 minutes. Well we were thinking
- wouldn't it be nice if you could wire it so that the payphone wouldn't
- hang up if the button was pressed. What you would be doing is turning it
- off. Then the payphone couldn't be hung up. And while we were at it,
- we found out how to keep it from reseting. Here's how...
- Remove the top cover, and find the totalizer (for complete instructions
- on how to do this see ABC's of payphones parts 1 and 2). Now unscrew
- the cover of the totalizer and locate the center position where 6-10
- wires meet. Clip all these wires. Put both covers back on. Now open
- the front panel. Find those main wires we're always using. Now cut the
- 3rd wire to the right.
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- Ok what all this does is stop the payphone from reseting, and it turns
- off the hang up button.
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- How to use it. Call someone up, and do the above instructions.
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- Getting money back.
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- If a payphone takes your money and won't give it back, but the money is
- still in the hopper, here's what you can do. Just dial a 950 number,
- such as 950-1044, and it will clear it out.
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- Endless ringing
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- This will make a payphone ring and ring. The only way to stop it will
- be if a repairman comes out and fixes it.
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- Open the front of the phone. Now the in the front row of wires go and
- clip the first, third, and fourth. Now touch them to each other until
- two of them make the phone ring. Now attach the two top ends and bottom
- ends two each other. Take the odd wire and reconnect it. Now cut the third
- wire to the right. If the payphone isn't ringing right now, make sure the
- receiver is hung up and touch those wires again. It will now ring. Put the
- phone together and walk away.
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- Remember after every trick to put the phone back together for another day.
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- This is one of MANY Great MYSTERY Notes at:
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- The Mystery Zone
- (312) 231-6183
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