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Very cool Could you take a photo of the component side of the circuit board? I'm curious to see what parts are on it.

Do you have any lights that seem to be glowing unusually bright? Or have you noticed that lights go on and off as 240V things like the furnace or oven cycle on and off?

Popcorn ceilings that are the blow-on kind made with the little styrofoam pellets are actually fairly easy to remove. If you lightly spray it with water, a lot of it just falls off, and then you scrape the rest. I've done several. I can see that a knock-down job, made with solid plaster...

There's the famous one from car ads, "Was running when parked". Yeah, thirty years ago, in a leaky rat-infested barn, with the windows down.

I think that part of the reason for lower ceilings was the advent of air conditioning, which made it unnecessary to have high ceilings in order to be (slightly) more comfortable in summer. As for the popcorn, some 1960s and early '70s houses had it done as a design choice, and there were...

Even as we speak, a bunch of EDM producers are busy... ... inventing a genre called "permanent press".

Transmission-Less TL Washers The GE Harmony is direct drive. I think that goes for the LG Hydrowave too.

Gas line in the bathroom I've seen lots of old houses in this area that had gas space heaters in the bathroom. My grandparents had that.

The worst automatic I've ever driven was the ZF 8-speed that Chrysler put into the 200. The least of its problems was that if you tried to drive down the highway at a constant speed, it continuously hunted back and forth between gears, forcing you to keep playing with the throttle to maintain...

I love satrad, but I prefer the XM system. I think it has a better variety of channels, and better sound quality on the music channels. There are some radios that can receive both systems.

AFAIK, frequency ringing was mainly a Strowger / Automatic Electric thing. WE switches mainly did selective ringing by using different combinations of tip/ring/ground for the ring voltage. The AE system could do selective ringing on an 8-party line, which the WE system couldn't do. I remember...

A big issue I don't see mentioned is manufacturers being allowed to abuse copyright law to restrict distribution of parts and tools, and suing people who do repairs without paying tribute to the factory. Some of them have gotten so aggressive as to sue people who dig into diagnostic data and...

How about a Kellogg? No corn flakes here... Kellogg was a big supplier of equipment to small independent telephone exchanges and hotels. Here's a Type 1000 "Red Bar" Masterphone, circa 1947. Being that Kellogg supplied a lot of equipment to rural telephone companies that had most of their...

Everybody loves a step switch An Automatic Electric step switch operating (and making an incredible amount of noise) in Weedsport, NY, in 1990.

1923 AT&T panel switch This one is now in the Museum of Communications in Seattle; I'm not sure where it came from. This was AT&T's first automated switch design, before the crossbar. Incredibly costly and complicated, these types of switches were only installed in big urban areas where the...

This thread needs some switchgear AT&T #1 crossbar, New York 1938. Link is to the page where the photo came from. https://ethw.org/Electromechanical_Telephone-Switching

That $279.95 is just short of $3000 in 2018 dollars.

There's two brands in there that I've never heard of... Barton and Marquette.

Dryer timer 130 minutes? How slow did the washer spin?

In 1973 we moved into a newly-built apartment complex in Chattanooga, TN, that was wired with RJ11 jacks. There was a box in my bedroom that was just blanked off. One day I opened it and found phone wires. I went to Radio Shack and bought an RJ11 jack and wired it in myself. Then, when my...