It Lives!
Collecting, Repair/Restoration May 16th. 2008, 12:44am
I’m proud to announce that, after a little cleaning and new cords, the first of my North Electric project phones has a dial tone, dials numbers reliably, and rings. Score!!! My paranoia over the possibility of their having frequency ringers was, thankfully, unfounded. A friend made the observation, “It makes me wonder how long it was silent and who heard it ring last.” Indeed. There’s still more work to be done, as the cleaning was mainly superficial and the ringer definitely needs an adjustment. Oh yea, and I’ve got to get that swell light to work. So far this is going entirely too easy… stay tuned!



May 18th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Hi Mark:
I have been watching your new website for a while. Today I decided to leave some comments after reading about your Galion phones. Dennis from MI said you bought a lot of 4. I use Picasa albums to post photos of the phones I restore. Anyway, check out my restoration of a Galion some months ago.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Amelyenator/Model8H6FromNorthElectricCompanyFromGalionOhio
I have done several others, available at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Amelyenator
Very nice web page!
Regards,
Jorge Amely
[Spectacular! Your restorations are just beautiful, just as Dennis described. Thank you for sharing them! - Mark]
October 7th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Love the N.E. Deskset, I have one and it works great! I also have 2 W.E. 302’s, and the matching 352 that goes with them. currently all in retirement, but they get put to use from time to time!