[GreenKeys] Telephone Hand Crank Dynamo

[Larry]

Protector boxes in rural areas contained the long fuse type protectors.  
In the cities and villages it was the same way with open block wiring 
inside the house originally.  When that stuff was outlawed, again in 
towns, the co. went to a solid hard plastic or phenolic type block with 
screw in type protection devices.  Same principal of operation. The old 
open block wiring was removed and quad style "JKT" wiring was used in 
place.  Better looking and easier for maintenance.

I don't remember what the fuse rating was in the rural farmsteads.  They 
had a WECO type number so we always made sure we carried a box or two of 
them with us when we went to work rural repair, especially after a 
thunderstorm had moved thru the area, which in western Kansas was not 
that often.  A lot of that country is still served by open wire lines 
which made for a large field to attract those bolts of St. Elmos's fire.

Larry
W0OGH





On 6/17/2015 10:06 AM, Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
> On 6/17/2015 11:55 AM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>> There is actually an old terminal and protector box on the side of my
>> house. This one has the long fuses and carbon protector.
> I have one at the shop. It was toward the rear of the building and was
> probably installed when the building was still only a years old.
> The shop was built around 1915.
>> The first house we owned in L.A. had a 200 series wasp-waist phone
>> with the ringer in a box on the wall.
> I have three of the "newer" 300 series phones.
> Ah for the days when you didn't need a gun for protection.
> A telephone handset was MORE than adequate. ;-)
>