Show threadPablonius Monk 🇺🇦Aug 5, 2025

Engineer restores pay phones for free public use 📞 ☎️

Schlott has taken old pay phones, modified them to make free calls, and set them up in three different towns across the county. He buys the phones secondhand from sites like eBay and Craigslist and restores them in his home workshop.

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https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5484013/engineer-restores-pay-phones-for-free-public-use

#Payphone #Telephone #PatrickSchlott #Vermont #JulianRing

Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦May 27, 2025

There are both old dial-up and touch-tone payphones. And RandTel even offers 3-way calling via the old "hook flash" method. Pepperidge Farm remembers!

Old payphones get new life, thanks to Vermont engineer 📞

Patrick Schlott fixes up and installs old payphones in Vermont communities where people need to place calls—after making a key modification to remove the need for coins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwXTUM2Y7L0

#PhoneBooth #RandTel #FuTel #PhilTel #HookFlash #PatrickSchlott #Vermont #PayPhone

Old payphones get new life, thanks to Vermont engineer

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