The author of Instructables under the nickname Biggsy for the Gang Show (has nothing to do with gangsters, so-called performances in which scouts play, see here) I needed the props in the form of an old trunk telephone. These phones, which were later replaced by cell phones, were connected to a single base station in the entire city. Due to the large power output they had to be made very large, they were carried on a belt or put in a car. Despite the scanty set of functions, such phones were very expensive. One-piece trunk phones appeared later, but the performance is about an earlier era. The Soviet Altai is also one of the examples of a trunk system. Calls in it were unlimited, there was no protection from the “doubles,” but it was not required either, since there was no way out for the G8 and intercity, it was still very far from premium service subscriptions. "Put" subscriber "on the headstock" "double" could not.
In fact, if a trunk telephone consists of two units, the antenna needed to communicate with the base station is not on the handset, but on that unit that is worn on the belt. But either out of ignorance, or for entourage, the master puts the antenna on the handset, like an analogue home radiotelephone of the pre-DECT era. Outside, the handset looks very rude:
But thanks to the peculiarities of stage lighting, spectators of the performance in the hall do not notice minor inaccuracies:
Work on homemade the master begins with the manufacture of the side walls of the tube:
Then he transfers the size of the diagonal part to the following workpiece:
This helps him cut the tape, forming after bending the tube body, the desired length:
The wizard adds partitions for stiffness and sets up the antenna:
Closes the walls of the front of the tube, first from the bottom and top:
And then in the middle:
Why draws the keyboard, it is not clear, anyway, in the hall from this distance they will not see. Well, that sounds like such a theatrical humor.
And finally, it collects a mock-up of a unit with a battery, logic, and a transceiver that is worn on a belt, in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped with a recess for storing the tube (the upper wall is slightly recessed down):
In the previous photo, he already has a belt, but the following shows how to attach it:
The light goes out, the curtain opens. Well, the props are already there. A performance about the life of wealthy people in the eighties will take place.
