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As my dad would say I needed it like a hog needed a side saddle. Yet I wanted it and the darn thing came home with me. I had one in my early 20's that got away from me. What Electrician doesn't need to know how many kilowatts that lightbulb is using. Plus with these new smart meters this is a bygone piece of history. Attachment 408917Attachment 408917
What a hoot! Great find!
Bob
Excellent find! Especially being a Westinghouse meter. I have all sorts of things around my house like that. Enjoyed your post - thanks for sharing.
That’s cool!
I just bought some cool vacuum tubes from days gone by.
Thought I’d educate the grandkids.
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Watched the little wheel inside of them turning slowly until the wife would turn on the clothes dryer then it would sure enough start turning. Now days they don't have a meter reader meters send reading on there own. They are obsolete just like the land line telephone.
They certainly are getting harder and hatder to find. If nothing else it makes a good conversation piece.
Sure is..I live rural and they read it from the road somehow. I don’t know how accurate that can be or however they read it. :banghead
Me as well, the way they do it out here in the country. To those that say the land line telephone is obsolete - wrong, many of us still have it. Yes, I use my cell phone nearly all the time, but want the assurance of a hard wired line coming in. Just because. Not going to rely solely on the air wave signal.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
Here hanging on the pole is a reader that collects data from meter. They know when the meter has power and when it doesn't. Works out good for me. I was tired of the meter reader running over my brick sidewalk and cracking it for me to repair.
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Originally Posted by Tracker123
When I retired in 2016 I tossed the cell phone and life life w/o just fine. We have a land line that is for comma and for our ADT alarm system.
What I read was that in the next 5 to 10 years landlines will be gone. If you look at a phone book from years ago and today's phone books it shows not very many landlines are still used. With it costing so much to keep up the lines I can see them shutting them off. Years ago a at&t phone employee told me pay phone was going to be obsolete I didn't believe him but guess what how many pay phone do you see today. :twocents
My dad would have said "You need that like a hole in the head!"Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
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My area (West Central FL still has 'em visually read)Quote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
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Look at all the phone exchange builds that are gone. You used to see them all over the place. Those Ma Bell buildings all looked the same. Passed one a couple of weeks ago out in the country being used for something elseQuote:
Originally Posted by scrat