On Saturday, June 29, 2002 at 5:46:31 AM UTC-10, The Technical Manager wrote:

What exactly produces the smell inside a strowger telephone exchange
building ? Is it some solvent or cleaning fluid ? I have a working
strowger exchange and the room it is in just won't smell like that
inside a BT exchange. I used to think the smell was caused by the
heating of relay coils and electromagnets but it isn't as I can't get my exchange to produce it even after prolonged operation yet the smell is
still strong inside my local exchange despite the strowger equipment
being depowered 12 years ago.

Man this stuff stays on the internet longer than the SXS switches were in operation. I left GTE as they were commissioning the GTD5 in Thousand Oaks CA and went to work at Sprint. Sprint's offices didn't smell anything like GTE's old SXS offices. Fast
forward to 2016 and I now work in an old GTE (Hawaiian Telcom) switch site and it still smells like the switchroom I remember. They took the SXS switches out in the eighties and are still using the GTD5's that replaced them....Roy

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