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HOW TO
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BUILD AND USE
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A
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SILVER BOX
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ATTENTION:
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Be sure you know how to solder! This could permanetly
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damage your phone!!! Read everything before doing anything!
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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INGREDIANTS:
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1 Blue wire about 1 foot.
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1 Gray wire about 1 foot.
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1 Brown wire about 1 foot. (Better to overkill....)
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1 Single Pole/Double Throw (SPDT) Switch (smallest you can
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find.)
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1 Standard Bell phone.
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TOOLS:
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1 Soldering iron and solder.
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1 Flat-tip screwdriver.
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1 Very patient person.
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1: Take the casting off your phone by loosening the two screws
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underneath it. (Don't take the screws all the way off!)
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2: Loosen (but don't remove) the screws on the side of the touch-
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tone keypad, (the ones that attach it to the mounting bracket) and
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carefully remove it from the mounting bracket.
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3: You will notice a plastic cover on the keypad; seperate the two
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halves and get them out of your way. (Don't destroy them, you will
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need them later.)
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4: Now, llok at the top of the pad (so the 123 row is facing away,
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and the *0# row is toward you. Turn over the keypad. You should see a
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mess of wires, gold plated contacts, discrete components, and two
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large donut shaped black thingies. (These are
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the coils which make the touch-tone frequencies. All you are going to
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do is connect the wires that Ma Bell "forgot" to.)
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5: Look at the coil at the left (with 5 solder contacts facing you,
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rather than being perpendicular to you.) count over four contacts from
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the left (or two contacts from the right) and solder the gray wire to
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the fourth post from the left.
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6: Solder the other end of the wire to the left pole of the SPDT
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switch.
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7: (The point of no return)....take a look at the bottom edge of the
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keypad. You should see a row of three gold plated contacts (to the
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right of the two very large capacitors) look at the one on the left
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and gently seperate the two touching connect
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ors (they are soldered together with a drop of solder) and spread them
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apart.
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8: Solder the brown wire to the top contact (the one furthest from
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you), and solder it to the right pole of the SPDT switch.
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9: Now, take the blue wire and solder it to the bottom (closest)
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contact. Solder the other end of this pole to the center of the SPDT
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switch.
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10. Now put your phone back together. (To make it look professional,
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make a hole in the plastic top of your phone and stick the SPDT switch
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through it.)
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Now, (hopefully) when the switch is in the on position you will have
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a normal phone and when it is in the other position the 3, 6, 9, #
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keys (which are now the A, B, C, and D keys) will magically produce
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the Silver Box tones!
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(See next post for more)
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=========Next page
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Yo ho ho....and a bottle of rum!
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Hackers, Crashers, Crackers, Phreakers, Pirates, Gurus. See??? You can
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do something with your life!!!
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-=%>USAGE OF A SILVER BOX<%=-
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First off, a Silver Box adds the four extra tones that Ma Bell never
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told you about. They go like this:
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1 2 3 A
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4 5 6 B
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7 8 9 C
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* 0 # D
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There used to be many places where you could use Silver Box tones,
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but now you can only use it in places where Ma Bell hasn't gotten
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around to replacing their old switchboxes, (4A), or an Autovon.
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Autovon is a special military phone line, like a ma
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ss of private lines hooked together (I think, but I'm not sure, heh!).
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To see if a specific area has the old 4A switchboxes try this test:
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Call up their directory assistance by using XXX-555-1212, (where XXX
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is the area code you are checking out. Now hold down the "D" key as
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soon as you finish dialing. (If you are using the Silver Box that I
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showed you how to make; switch to Silver Box
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tones and hold down the "#" key.) The phone will start ringing and the
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operator will answer. If the operator screams at you to stop pressing
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your keypad, then hang up and try a different area code. (This one
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does not work.) If you get a pulse tone th
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en you got a good line! Now try out different numbers, 6 and 7 usually
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form a loop line and two people with Silver Boxes can talk. But some
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of these are watched, so don't say anything you woulnd't want your
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mother to hear!
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I have heard that 213 works but is being watched. Try out of the way
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states like Iowa, Montana, Wyoming, etc.....
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Brought to you by:DOCTOR MURDOCK - ROR
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DOC'S NOTE: I have been told that if you are connected via Silver Box
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on an information (operator) line, and one person hangs up, the
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remaining person becomes an information operator!! There are a lot of
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fun things you could do with that!....
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