Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: POWERS@ibm.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: How do You Hook up a Phone For a Play? Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 91 07:08:54 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 19 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 152, Message 7 of 7 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu I can't believe no other reader has suggested this - if I missed it, please accept my apologies. Buy a surplus EE-8 field telephone, or the magneto from same, or similar magneto, from any of numerous surplus vendors (including Edmund Scientific, if I remember correctly). These puppies are still quite plentiful and sold under various names, and for various purposes, such as inducing worms to surface. Connect the output to the telephone to be rung. Turn crank, using ringing cadence desired. No mains power is required. Damage from shocks (very painful, but unlikely with the simplest precautions) is limited to the duration of circular cranking by a human being and a limited generating capacity. Anyone got a safer and/or simpler solution?