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__/ ___|\ / \/ ___\......Issue: FHG5-01.TXT.................. |
| ___| |_| |/ __ .....Author: Ruiner....................... |
\/| | _ || \ \...Subject: Biege Boxing for Dummies..... |
| _| | | | \_\ |..FHG Pak: 05 |
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Ok, I decided that, although there are many articles on biege boxing
none really tell you all you need to know, now although there are some things
that you could(should) learn from experience there are other things which
could at least help you attain that knowledge with a better basic knowledge
of biege boxing.
A biege box is basically a phone, that's all it is really. Every
bell linesman has at least one biege box (actually, they're called linesmans
handsets, hence every bell linesman having at least one). When you are using
a biege box you are just on an extension of the phone line you are hooked up
to. The uses of a biege box are obvious... just use it to do anything you
do with a regular phone without it being your line.
Construction (taken from the Jolly Roger CookBook)
(Why explain how to make it when I don't have to?)
The construction is very simple. First, you must understand
the concept of the device. In a modular jack, there are four wires.
These are red, green, yellow, and black. For a single line telephone,
however, only two matter: the red (ring) and green (tip). The yellow
and black are not necessary for this project. A lineman's handset
only has two clips on it: the ring and the tip.
You will need a phone (we reccommend a touch-tone) with a
modular plug, a modular jack, and two large alligator clips
(preferably red and green, respectively). Take the modular jack and
look at the bottom of its casing. There should be a grey jack with
four wires (red, green, yellow, and black) leading out of it. To the
end of the red wire attach a red alligator clip. To the end of the
green wire attach a green alligator clip. The yellow and black wires
can be removed, although I would only set them aside so that you can
use the modular jack in future projects. Now insert your telephone's
modular plug into the modular jack. That's it.
This particular model is nice because it can be easily made,
is inexpensive, uses common parts that are readily available, is
small, is lightweight, and does not require the destruction of a
phone.
There are some modifcations you can make to your biege box to further
enhance it, you can figure them out for yourself (or I'll save them for
another file)
Equipment
These are just suggestions but I think there are some things that you should
bring with you, I personally don't bring much with me, my kit can fit in my
pockets (aside from my box) but the things that you should bring with you are
a 7/16 wrench: Used to open almost all boxes, I can think of one kind of box
where the bolt is smaller than 7/16.
a flashlight : obviously so you can see what your doing. Most times I don't
need this, mainly for a special kind of post type thing.
wire stippers: or wire cutters, to expose the wires to your box (duh).
I personally don't need them becuase of A. I have
a special connector thingie which I'll expain about later
and B. The aligator clips on my box are made a special way
which I'll also explain about later.
That's it as far as equipment goes, there are other things that you can bring
for personal defence, mace etc. but that's just up to you.
Going Out
Ok, in this part I'm not going to explain when to go out boxing, if
your careful enough it doesn't matter when to go, and as far as clothing goes
that should just be common sence. I'm going to tell you how to connect your
box correctly to all the different things etc. etc.
First things first, each phone line has two pins (I call them pins anyways)
By far the easiest box to open are the tiny grey boxes you see everywhere.
They're on the side of houses, or on telephone poles. The cover just slides
off the top exposing ring and tip. Sometimes you may find that you will find
a box that is encased in plastic and is sort of clipped together. Just apply
a little pressure to where it's clipped and it should open, the cover folding
upwards and outwards.
Another kind of box is a sort of forest green box that comes to a triangular
point. The bolt on them is at the top and then the front part of it slides
upwards. (note, unless otherwise noted, all mentioned boxes after this point
open with the 7/16 wrench)
Also there are just normal light green boxes that come in all kinds of shapes
and sizes. The bolt is halfway down the right side of the box, just turn it
counter clockwise and take off the front cover and you will see all the pins.
Also there are the dark brown boxes which for some reason... never seem to be
bolted shut or something (Tektite was right) because the front cover really
does always come right off. Now when you open up one of these it might look
strange at first but don't fret, there will be a blue uhh...thing with a flap
that covers the pins which are more uhm..compressed than all the other boxes
that you'll find. I have this special connector thingie that fits perfectly
between the pins, however one idea which I got from NiTEFOWL (also Riot uses
this too) is to solder guitar wire to the aligator clips and I guess wrap it
around the pins so you get dial tone.
There are also boxes that are just a mass of wires. These look like hopeless
nothings but obviously if you brought your wire stippers (or cutters) you can
remove the insulation of a pair and get dial tone, not every pair is living
but your bound to find one working pair in all the wires that you'd find.
There are also the large boxes with many lines running through them, although
from far away they might look like the need somekind of key but actually they
just need the 7/16 wrench. The main reason I'm telling you about these is
that when you open up one, despite the fact that you may see many phone lines
there could be some covered with little red caps. These are protected circuts
which I would really advise you to stay away from. They are usually for
security and alarm systems.
Ruiner@PointBrk.Erkware.Com
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