>>2500965Through the double-doors and into the battery room. 2v wet cells provided power for the equiment and subscriber loops. These batteries are why you'd still have dialtone even when the power went out. "Five-nines", etc.
Everything's dried out now, electrolyte's evaporated leaving sulfur residue on the housings and lead plates of the cells. I don't know if there's any value in this stuff, or the hazards of dealing with this much lead and sulfur outweighs anything you'd get from scrap metals.
