Re. your WE XB switches: Try this: go to the website of ATCA, the Antique Telephone Collectors' Association. Someone there will probably have not only the space but the ancillary components to make those switches work again.
Just yesterday I ran into an old crossbar PAX (internal telephones only) made in Norway (probably an Ericsson-related company, so I could probably get it working again). A small one, like 12 or 16 stations. Sitting on a phone room wall, unplugged, dead spiders etc. in the contacts, and looking like it wanted to climb into my van. I'll probably be back for that one in a couple of days, as soon as I can get the property owner's permission to remove it.
BTW, I'm told XB has a higher bandwidth than some of the ESS machines, for running dialup data lines.
-George
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On 19 Jan, 2005, at 6:09 PM, Bob Puff wrote:
For a totally different topic, slightly OT for the forum but...
I have a couple WE Crossbar switches in my basement from a #5 office that I
really need to move. I hate to just throw them away, such history. Is there
anyone that could provide a good home to these? Contacts should be in decent
shape, and all coils are good.
Bob
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BTW, I'm an oldschool phone geek too, since the days of Ericsson crossbar and 1a2 with 207-C selectors, and even Automatic Electric type 87 three-line sets (!).
-George
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