What do you think?

[Bill Cahill]

Since I'm having so much trouble getting parts for my wall phone, I'm thinking of doing a gutt out. I recently picked up a WE desk phone with some rust, and, rotted rubber feet.
I'm thinking of pulling parts off that to repair my WE 554 wall phone. What do you guys think? I really want to hang up the wall phone on my bench in my main repair shop.
Bill Cahill 

[Dan/Panther]

It depends if the donor phone is worth restoring. If it's pretty much beyond help, use the parts as long as they are relatively the same vintage. I try to keep things as close to how they were available as possible.
I wouldn't switch parts around, just for the sake of getting a phone working, made from mismatched parts.
D/P

[McHeath]

I have a parts phone that gets robbed of this and that when needed.  Rotary wall phones are pretty cool, and worth getting up and going, I think that you will enjoy it. 

[mienaichizu]

I also done that on my AE80, since its hard to find parts here in the Phils