This makes me sick

[AET]

http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/clt/1420765966.html  ( dead link 11/30/17 )

[bwanna]

o the horror

[JorgeAmely]

What's next? Lamps made out of rotary phones? Bird houses?

Jorge  

[bellsystemproperty]

I will call him in the morning and have a serious discussing about the ethics of this project. You should call him as well and try to talk some sense into this dangerous lunatic. I will post his response.

[Dan/Panther]

Hay, maybe the guy in on to something.
You know what, I'm going to make a planter out of old dial phones. Please send me all you have.
D/P

[McHeath]

Yeah, here D/P I got this old black ugly phone for you, it has some weird number on the bottom that says "500" towards the front and then the numbers "12/49", I'm sure it means nothing.  Anyway please make it into a very nice pot for a fern or bonzai tree.

[foots]

 The same thing happens to old typewriters. People destroy really nice typewriters by pulling the keytops off to make jewelry such as bracelets, charms, rings, ect.... Its horrible to destroy a peice of history for something like that.
Just yesterday I saw a very nice old hand operated water pump that had been turned into a lamp, as well as a very old percolator. Are lamps really in demand that much?

[Dan/Panther]

McHeath;
That's really a little older than I was looking for, but if you insist, I'll take it, I probably can't use, it but maybe another will need some parts, I can take off of yours.
D/P

[Greg G.]

The same thing happens to old typewriters. People destroy really nice typewriters by pulling the keytops off to make jewelry such as bracelets, charms, rings, ect.... Its horrible to destroy a peice of history for something like that.
Just yesterday I saw a very nice old hand operated water pump that had been turned into a lamp, as well as a very old percolator. Are lamps really in demand that much?

I can't tell you how many old hand-crank or even later electric model upright Victrolas I've come across that were gutted and turned into liquor cabinets.  Makes me want to reach in, grab a bottle and start guzzling!

[AET]

That's like Vintage TV's turned into Fish Tanks. Ugh!

[bellsystemproperty]

I just called her today. I recommended that she scrap some touchtones or rotary phone look alikes. I also went into how dials are a diminishing resource and all that stuff. I also told her I was on a rotary phone talking to her. (my red 500) She was actually really nice about it and seems like she will take my advice.

Just saved some phones

[AET]

I plan on calling her too, maybe we can offer to purchase some rotary phones if she has any.

[bwanna]

good work, bsp... you may win this month's PETT merit award

good idea, tom. 

[McHeath]

PETT merit award

People for the Ethical Treatment of Telephones.

[benhutcherson]

I don't know why people can't simply leave well enough alone.

I've mentioned here before that I've recently taken an interest in watch repair. When I try to find parts, I'm often in competition with people who want those same parts to make jewelry.

What I see as a good, useable 4th wheel for a Waltham model 1857, for example(a part which I recently had the need for), someone else sees as something that they can hang on a necklace.

Personally, I think it's far more important and useful to have a good, working watch that, with the part in place, will probably continue to work for at least another 140 years, than it is to put it on a necklace that will be lost, broken, or forgotten about in the next couple of years.

And, of course, we've all seen the candlestick telephone lamps. I personally think that anyone who makes a lamp out of a candlestick should be shot.