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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
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position. It breaks the signal the number of times indicated.
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You can achieve the same effect by tapping rapidly on the little button
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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
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once, pause half a second, tap rapidly twice, pause, tap three times
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fast, pause, and so on. It takes a little practice to get the numbers
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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,
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then walk away and it would stay off the hook till someone hung it up,
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or a ma bell repair crew came and hung it up. Well, that doesn't work
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anymore. It resets itself within 4-5 minutes. Well we were thinking
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wouldn't it be nice if you could wire it so that the payphone wouldn't
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hang up if the button was pressed. What you would be doing is turning it
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off. Then the payphone couldn't be hung up. And while we were at it,
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we found out how to keep it from reseting. Here's how...
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Remove the top cover, and find the totalizer (for complete instructions
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on how to do this see ABC's of payphones parts 1 and 2). Now unscrew
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the cover of the totalizer and locate the center position where 6-10
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wires meet. Clip all these wires. Put both covers back on. Now open
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the front panel. Find those main wires we're always using. Now cut the
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3rd wire to the right.
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Ok what all this does is stop the payphone from reseting, and it turns
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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
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still in the hopper, here's what you can do. Just dial a 950 number,
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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
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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
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clip the first, third, and fourth. Now touch them to each other until
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two of them make the phone ring. Now attach the two top ends and bottom
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ends two each other. Take the odd wire and reconnect it. Now cut the third
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wire to the right. If the payphone isn't ringing right now, make sure the
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receiver is hung up and touch those wires again. It will now ring. Put the
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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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