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Originally Posted by macafee2
Not car related.
Many years ago I worked in a telephone exchange. An engineer came to me to say the wires on some tags were the wrong wire and could I help him trace the wire from the other end. The reason for this was at one end was a pink and grey wire and the other end was blue and yellow. We traced the wires to find the pink and grey had been connected to the blue and yellow. When I asked the engineer that carried out the work why, his reply was "I ran out of pink and grey"
If we had not replaced with the correct wire every time the circuit was checked at one end, the end that was blue and yellow people would have traced the wire from the far end. The colours meant something.
I seem to recall my dad telling me that a leather belt had been used instead of a big end shell or bearing but my mind could be playing tricks on me
macafee2
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This brings back many memories. Back in the early 70's I installed the old Strowger telephone exchanges. Your post brought back memories of the noise of the selectors and the unmistakeable smell of warm electrics. Also the less pleasant memories of adjusting thousands of sets of wipers. It was also the time of the stopgap crossbar which I worked on and the early electronic (TXE2?) which I didn't have the opportunity to experience.