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From: whelan@huey.wslab.Hawaii.Edu (Jerry Whelan)
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Subject: Re: free calls?
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Date: 7 Aug 90 01:08:14 GMT
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In article <1990Aug6.124516.8051@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> sheasby@dgp.toronto.edu (Michael C. Sheasby) writes:
=>They took out the small speaker and touched the two wires
=>leading to it to the handset holder (the thing you put the
=>phone back on when you finish the call). Then they dialed
=>and quickly screwed the receiver cap back on. Apparently this
=>saved them a quarter.
=>
=>I suppose it has something to do with a small current passing
=>through the metal receiver hook and fooling the phone into thinking
=>a quarter had been deposited.
=>
=>Anyone ever see this?  can you do it any other way?

	Yeah, at my boarding high school this was fairly common in the
dorms.  However we didn't have to take it apart, rather we stuck a
wire in a hole in the speaker cap and touched the other end to
the metal cable that connected the handset to the rest of the phone.
Here at college I've noticed that a number of public phones have the
center hole in the speaker cap filled in, I assume this is to prevent
people from doing the above operation.
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