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the number dialed is 30-0-50-91-491
The red phone (GPO 706) is on my AT&E 50/7A PAX.

Dialing 30 takes you out through an outgoing tie line and onto the junction selector, 0 takes you back into the 50/7A on an incoming tie line, 50 takes you out through another tieline and into my asterisk server. 91 are the access digits which take you in to the asterisk server at the Dean Forest Railway, 491 then takes you back into my asterisk server, which then dials "39" on your behalf which takes you out *another* tie line into my 10/2A PAX and then it finally dials a 5 to ring the black phone (also a 706)

Two 1950s strowger PAXes, a home-brew junction selector, two asterisk servers and a load of internet later - and I've phoned from one side of my front room to the other.

This is what happens when you throw your TV out and find something else to do with your evenings.
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LP, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 19:39, Reply)

I want to get rid of my TV
and do stupid shit like this, but wouldnt know where to start :(
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 19:42, Reply)

start by
getting rid of your tv! The rest seemed to follow naturally...
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LP, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 19:43, Reply)

But Ive just bought a stupid big 3d one :(

Although, I still have the old massive CRT one that is too heavy for me to get out of my house...

*edit* free to anyone that can move it, panasonic, 34 inch I think, silver. Weighs tons.
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 19:46, Reply)

I had to get one of these to the tip recently, I was moving from a 3rd floor apartment it was fucking backbreaking
to get it down 3 flights of stairs. I do not envy you.
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spanishfly is so fucking sexy people impersonate him, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 20:04, Reply)

Yup,
still on the first floor. And thats where its staying unless A, someone comes for it or B, I take it apart to move it.
I suppose I should put it on gumtree or freecycle.
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 20:15, Reply)

or push it out the window
it'll make a lovely noise when it lands!
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LP, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 20:16, Reply)

I cant get it onto the windowsill
and it wouldn't fit through the window :(
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 20:18, Reply)

I've got a 27" one I can't fucking shift either
It nearly killed me to get it up to the third floor, and I'm five years older and wiser now.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 20:09, Reply)

do you live in edinburgh?

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tickle I was away, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 20:17, Reply)

close,
leamington.
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 20:18, Reply)

man that's a short walk. i'll take it.

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tickle I was away, Thu 31 Oct 2013, 19:11, Reply)

I had one of those, not worth a bean now. I gave mine to a local charity that helps homeless
people back on their feet in new homes. These people have nothing so something we treat as unfashionable is given a new lease of life.
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Nuisance Value, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 20:49, Reply)

Tried there, they won't pick up electricals apparently
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 21:11, Reply)

British Heart Foundatio have shops that sell electricals, don't know if they pick up though.

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spesh., Tue 29 Oct 2013, 21:36, Reply)

Wicked!!!
*donates MC Hammer pants*
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE - THAT'S HOW I SCROLL $$$$, Tue 29 Oct 2013, 22:17, Reply)

Easy to say that
a lot harder to do it. If you have an interesting enough hobby it will happen on its own any way. I am not even sure if it even counts as a hobby if it takes up all your time. I go to work to have a rest from it.
(TimChuma, Sat 2 Nov 2013, 22:35, Reply)