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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 4464276, member: 36"]That's awesome. Great use for them. </p><p><br /></p><p>My late father used to repair hydro-electric power plants for the local utility. Some of them were close to antique even then. (Edison Electric plates on the wall) One even had one of those no-dial hand cranked phones on the wall inside. It still worked! It connected to the office, where a kind lady would place a call for you. The utility must have been run by the Dutch, because they stopped using all of those power plants and went "modern" and started buying power from Canada.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 4464276, member: 36"]That's awesome. Great use for them. My late father used to repair hydro-electric power plants for the local utility. Some of them were close to antique even then. (Edison Electric plates on the wall) One even had one of those no-dial hand cranked phones on the wall inside. It still worked! It connected to the office, where a kind lady would place a call for you. The utility must have been run by the Dutch, because they stopped using all of those power plants and went "modern" and started buying power from Canada.[/QUOTE]
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