Take Apart by GYØ Ben
June 22nd, 2007 2:53 PMI decided to rip the poor thing to shreds (carefully)... but only to reveal some antique electronics.
There was a lot... a lot... of dust in there too.
After this, it was to the receiver, and on discovering very little in there, I went to the second part of this task.
It took a little while to think about what to make from the very little material I had. Many ideas passed through my mind - a musical instrument set, a marble run... but instead, I went for something a little bit... unorthodox.
I think the pictures and videos speak... pretty much for themselves (well, my titles and captions kind of... speak for them, but you get my drift)
It's a shame things didn't work out *quite* how I planned, though.
Excuse the British accent. Us limeys don't really live in castles and all know the Queen personally.
Beginning of the mission, end of the phone
This is the phone before it was brutally murdered
Underside of the phone
This, the underside of the phone, was my first place of attack
Something's screwy here...
The first screw (out of two) which I removed to reveal the tasty inner section
The inner sanctum
The workings of the base unit, with squidgy rubber mat, phone buttons and circuitboards
Underbelly
The component side of the circuitboards. There's a hell of a lot of it for a phone that old, but the dust compensates
Clickybutton
This is what sits underneath the receiver button, to reset the call; presumably a cute clicky push-to-break switch
Metal plate
Just about the last thing I removed from the base unit, the metal disc had a very satisfying sound when bent
Scattered
The current state of play - Ben: 1, Phone: 0
Received
The receiver, with parts removed
I have a MESS-age for you
The state of my front room's carpet, with bits of phone... everywhere
Cutting the cord
Snipping the cord to begin the second part of the task
The Chain: Part 1
The first part of the chain reaction
The Chain: Part 2
The second part of the chain reaction
The Chain: Part 3
The third part of the chain reaction
The Chain: Part 4
The fourth part of the chain reaction
The Chain: Part 5
The fifth part of the chain reaction
The Chain: Part 6
The sixth part of the chain reaction
The Chain: Part 7
The seventh part of the chain reaction
SF0 - Represented
Just thought I'd chuck in some extra advertising... even if it is just in my living room
The whole lot
A picture of everything there was in my contraption
So... what actually happened?
Download FLV
This is what happened.
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YellowBear
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Tøm
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Sean Mahan
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Ziggy C.
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Clan
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Ian Kizu-Blair
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Radioactive Cheese
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Meta tron
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Charlie Fish
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lara black
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help im a bear
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The slightly fed up "huzzah" at the end made me laugh.
This is coolio, what was up with the number bit of the chain though?
The video is a study in determination/madness
We can all learn something from this. Phone parts do not work well in domino-style chain reactions.
YellowBear: yeah, it's a fine task - although the video just started working all by itself :)
Frozen Haddock: The number bit of the chain worked as follows: The numbers were all slotted underneath one another, and I assumed jogging one of them would set the rest of them moving, even very slightly
Sean Mahan: Determination definitely, madness... yeah, I suppose you could say that
Ziggy C.: Yes, I agree wholeheartedly.
Don't lie Ben. I know for a fact that you were round Buck House on Friday talking to Liz. And Forbes Castle is visable from here, high above the world on Smith Hill
I can see his castle now.
He is flying the good old St Georges Cross from the battlements right now.
I bet he's on the lawns, drinking tea and eating cucumber sandwiches.
Your dulcet English tones require no excusing young man, hold your head high and be proud to be British what, what!
*Dons her own monocle*
your inept rube goldberg machine made me weak in the knees :)
What actually happened..?.. NO!!! The last pic is missing...!!!>>>!!!! AAHHH I neeeeed to know.
I vote for you being the first to take on this task, nicely done. Just the sort of thing i was thinking of when I suggested it.
*Edit* Oh thank you for getting the video to work! Splendid effort, made me laugh out loud.