MAD! PRESENTS... THE ABC'S OF PAYPHONES PART 1 The information presented in this file is for entertainment purposes only. The authors of this file take no responsibility for any of its contents. The following text file is for AT&T & GTE payphones from 1982-1985. some things are different on gte phones, so additions are included for them. Section 1:The coin slot For every 5 cents you put in a phone, a sound is made. After you put the coins in the slot, they pass through a totalizer which counts them. They then collect in a hopper. To empty out the hopper, all you have to do is activate the coin relay. Payphones sometimes hold $100 or more. To activate the relay place 5 cents in the phone. Stick a magnet up the coin slot about 5 inches. Now remove the front panel of the phone. You will see a series of wires. Cut the red and green wires. Now in the front of the panel you will see three screws. Touch the green wire to the third screw. Better have a hat ready, because alot of change is gonna come flooding out. Isn't this fun? Section 2:free credits If you have a friend jn germany you need to call this section's for you. One of the cheap things about pay phones is they depend on tones to tell them you inserted money. Well if you have a red box these tones are easily duplicated, but i want to show you how do it without boxes in this file. Now Some things you need are... A set of screwdrivers. You will need both philips and flathead. Now open the front panel of the phone and cut the red and green wires. Take the cover off the top of the phone and insert 5 cents. You should hear nothing. Find a green wire coming from the coin slot down to the hopper. Disconnect that wire. Now take off the case and you will see a small switch. Move the switch. This sets the totalizer backwards 1. Now put the hopper cover back on and reconnect the wire. Back to the front panel. Feel to the right of the two screws. You should feel 4 jumpers. 1 of the jumpers should be disconnected. Reconnect it. Now cut the top jumper. You should hear a loud pop. Now touch the green wire to the second screw. You will hear the sound of twenty five cents being inserted. You now have 30 cents credit. Repeat as many times as you need. Now reconnect the green wire and dial your number. GTE Notes: The green wire will be white. The red one will be blue. The totalizer is located at the bottem of the front panel. In part 2 we will show you how to take the payphone apart, and how to take one home. THE ABC'S OF PAYPHONES PART 2. The information presented in this file is presented for entertainment purposes only. The authors of this file take no responsibility for any of its contents. Section 1:how to open a payphone An Atlantic Bell payphone is a heavily armored device. It is designed to withstand attempted theft and damage. But as we found out in part 1, we don't need to get through all the armor to phreak it. All we need to do is get to the wiring which is all located behind 3 easy to remove panels. All that holds the front panel on is 3 or 4 bolts. Just apply sulfuric acid and in ten minutes or less they will come right out. While you are waiting remove the other panels. The top panel is held on by two tight nuts. A good pair of pliers will remove them. Now the back panel is the hardest to remove. It is held together by a semi- permanent solution. On the newer AT&T credit and pay phones, an alarm goes off when the back panel is removed. The circuitry for it is located in the top panel. Look for a round box with 4 wires coming out. Cut the first and second ones. Now use sulfuric acid, wait ten minutes and lift it off. Section 2:How to steal a payphone Ever wanted to have your own payphone? It's not very hard to steal one. As a matter of fact, it is easy to rip one out of the wall, but I want to show you how to take one home intact. Anyone traveling to Toronto should stop by to see MR. C0SMOS' collection of payphones. He has them set up and working. Stealing payphones is very dangerous. Much more than phone boxing. Do not steal more than one from an area. They sometimes know immediately when it's gone, so get the hell out of there. The inside of it is heavily armored. If you are taking it for the money, you will need a full set of philips & flathead screwdrivers, sulfuric acid, a crowbar, a sledgehammer, bolt cutters, and probably more. Now you can take it home and pound on it, or you can use the easy way we showed you in part one. In part 3 we will show you how to wire it up when you get it home and alot of other stuff. THE ABC'S OF PAYPHONES PART 3 The information presented in this file is for entertainment purposes only. The authors of this file take no responsibility for any of its contents. Well our mail boxes having been filling up with questions regarding this series. We will answer them all in future files. Ok, now you have your payphone home. What do you do with it. Well, if you want to make it work, you need to run up a five prong cable from the phone line in your basement. The outlet in the wall won't work. Now, a two inch hole at the left front of it. Remove the back panel (as described in part 1) and disconnect the wires coming out of it. You will see them coming from silver screws. Disconnect them all. Now make sure you know which screws they came from. Now for some explaining. You could just wire it up with the existing wires, but then it will make tones, so we are going to rewire it. You will need 10 heavy duty 7 inch wires for the next part. If you don't want it to accept money, skip this part. Take the 12 O'clock screw and connect it to the screw at the bottom of the totalizer. You will have to push it through, then take the top off, and connect it. Connect the 2 O'clock screw to the green wire on the silver box. Just cut the green wire from the box and connect them. Ok, now this is the part that makes them work. Take the silver box which is hanging loose now (make sure the wires attached already don't come loose), and attach your 10 wires to the screws on the phone. Now starting at the left top of the silver box, hook the wires on counter clockwise starting with 3 O'clock, excluding 12, 2, 2:30, and 4. Now run the cable up through the bottom, and hook it to the front of the silver box. It should now work. Ok, now to answer a question. A MAD! reader wants to know if you could trip the totalizer using a wire stuck up the coin slot. MR. C0SMOS answers that it would be very hard because of the bends involved, and metal in the way. You might be able to if you used a non-magnetic, very small, bendable rod. Just keep going up, until you encounter a small lever, then move it. It would take alot of patience. Watch for part 4 soon. The ABC's of Payphones part 4. MAD!'s most popular series! The Telephone lock. Rotary payphones dial by having the number roll back to its original position. It breaks the signal the number of times indicated. You can achieve the same effect by tapping rapidly on the little button at the top of the phone (the one you use to hang up with). Let's say you wanted to call 123-4567. You would tap on the number once, pause half a second, tap rapidly twice, pause, tap three times fast, pause, and so on. It takes a little practice to get the numbers right, but it does work. So much for locked telephones. OFF HOOK. Everyone knows the old trick where you would call someone on a payphone, then walk away and it would stay off the hook till someone hung it up, or a ma bell repair crew came and hung it up. Well, that doesn't work anymore. It resets itself within 4-5 minutes. Well we were thinking wouldn't it be nice if you could wire it so that the payphone wouldn't hang up if the button was pressed. What you would be doing is turning it off. Then the payphone couldn't be hung up. And while we were at it, we found out how to keep it from reseting. Here's how... Remove the top cover, and find the totalizer (for complete instructions on how to do this see ABC's of payphones parts 1 and 2). Now unscrew the cover of the totalizer and locate the center position where 6-10 wires meet. Clip all these wires. Put both covers back on. Now open the front panel. Find those main wires we're always using. Now cut the 3rd wire to the right. Ok what all this does is stop the payphone from reseting, and it turns off the hang up button. How to use it. Call someone up, and do the above instructions. Getting money back. If a payphone takes your money and won't give it back, but the money is still in the hopper, here's what you can do. Just dial a 950 number, such as 950-1044, and it will clear it out. Endless ringing This will make a payphone ring and ring. The only way to stop it will be if a repairman comes out and fixes it. Open the front of the phone. Now the in the front row of wires go and clip the first, third, and fourth. Now touch them to each other until two of them make the phone ring. Now attach the two top ends and bottom ends two each other. Take the odd wire and reconnect it. Now cut the third wire to the right. If the payphone isn't ringing right now, make sure the receiver is hung up and touch those wires again. It will now ring. Put the phone together and walk away. Remember after every trick to put the phone back together for another day.