Telephone systems

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Did a stint for BT and for NTL as an installer. See if you can find an old "Butt Phone" (that's what we called 'em) - they're the bright yellow or red ones. Then all you have to do is bust open the distro or mux unit doors and jack yourself into someone elses phone line. You can do it with a normal telephone with some jiggery pokery, but these phones are much better. Got caught a couple of times "borrowing" someones line when they picked up expecting to make a call only to hear me chatting to someone at control!

Be warned though, if you're playing with a mux unit you can get a bit of a shock. The quickest way to tell if a line was live into a property was to strip the wires and stick 'em in your gob. Little shock and the line is fine. I tried this at the distro hub, voltage much higher than I expected. 2 little burns on my tongue, and I spent the rest of the day dribbling