********************************** * PISS PHILEZ ISSUE 11 * * * * Maroon Boxing * * * * by Dial Tone * * * * Created 8/17/97 * * Last Modified 8/17/97 * ********************************** PLANS FOR: T H E M A R O O N B O X Here is our disclaimer. We do not condone the use of this device...it is illegal to use it in a manner such as the one described. We hold no responsibility for your actions with or without this device. yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda....let's just get to the phile. You're probably asking yourself "what the hell is a maroon box?" Plain and simple...it is a box that should have been made years ago. Originally it wasn't a box....but since we changed the idea...and made it more compact...we made it a box. The maroon box allows you to place your call--from someone else's line of course--from a distance... that way you don't have to stand there with a beige box and a phone cord hanging off of it and into a phone box when someone drives by. First I will provide the plans and then a complete description of its use and posibilities. First, go get yourself a cordless phone (the smaller the better) at a garage sale--make sure it works. Open the base unit up and take out all the stuff inside--keep it intact. Now if you found a reasonably small cordless the pile of electronics you pulled out should fit comfortably into the palm of your hand. Get yourself an empty coke can...use a can opener or the like, to cut out the top of the can where the drinking hole is. With any luck you will wash and dry the inside of the can. Place the ball of electronincs into the can. Now rig a line with aligator clips...just like you would if you were using a beige box....By now you are probably wondering what you are going to do about the little power cord and transformer that are also attached to the little bundle.....there are a few possibilities. 1)look at the manufactuer's marking on the case of the phone...and the transformer...find the voltage the phone uses...usually around 6 volts or so...now go buy/steal (whatever you do) a battery that is the same voltage that the base unit uses. Connect it to the base unit end of story...but the second one is better. 2)if you prefer a more permanent arrangement you can hard wire the power from the house along with the phone wires.(more on this later). Well there you have it, simple isn't it. Now let me explain about it. Now here is the deal. if you haven't already figured it out by now the maroon box lets you wire up to the phone and then sit in a car or whatever a distance away...so you don't look suspicious when you are standing next to a building with a phone and a wire that is pluged into another house. You can walk up, clip on, leave you coke can there, walk a little ways off and use the handset to make a call. On the other hand, if you want to make it permanent you can forget the can and try to stuff the entire ball of electronics into the little grey phone box on the side of the person's house...WARNING... when they find out that you have a 3 hour call to a 900# to get your jollies, they will call ma bell and ma bell will check they're box, finding your little addidtion....but for a five dollar cordless at a garage sale..who can complain....and if you are smart about it, you might be able to get away with it for a long time. The name for this box came from the fact that it remotely resembles the color of the coke can in which you place it. That wraps up this phile...you're welcome! Credit for this work of art goes out to ME...aka Dial-Tone...feel free to post this..unchanged and as it is. !!!LOOK FOR SOME MORE PHILES FROM THIS NEW AUTHOR AND THIS NEW GROUP SOON!!! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PISS - People into Serious Shit Founderz - Defenestrator, PhrostByte Memberz - Author Parselon Wu Forever kQs CGibbons Extinction Faekon/Homarid Grench Greenseed Tim 121 Rhodekyll Dial Tone Terror Zombie Snack Barr Contributors- Sameer Ketkar Want more stuph? Go to http://www.angelfire.com/sc/PISS/philez.html The site will change as soon as I get money for one.. E-mail the group at chrisbarron@hotmail.com ©1997 PISS Publications This file may be posted freely as long as this notice stays on the file. All rights reserved.