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I'm bored. Look at this dial plate.

Started by deedubya3800, May 30, 2011, 10:35:56 PM

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deedubya3800

May 30, 2011, 10:35:56 PM
It's genuine Western Electric, but from the wrong decade. Looks weird here.

LarryInMichigan

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May 30, 2011, 10:43:38 PM
I don't recall ever seeing one like that.  Al of mine have red numbers below the letters.

Larry

deedubya3800

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May 30, 2011, 11:17:08 PM
This one is out of an 8HA dial, dated 11-81.

Jim Stettler

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May 31, 2011, 01:02:40 AM
Quote from: deedubya3800 on May 30, 2011, 11:17:08 PM
This one is out of an 8HA dial, dated 11-81.
Cool is as cool is. I deem this cool.
JMO,
Jim S
You live, You learn,
You die, you forget it all.

deedubya3800

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May 31, 2011, 01:08:58 AM
Quote from: Jim S. on May 31, 2011, 01:02:40 AM
Quote from: deedubya3800 on May 30, 2011, 11:17:08 PM
This one is out of an 8HA dial, dated 11-81.
Cool is as cool is. I deem this cool.
JMO,
Jim S
Why thank ya.

I'm just sitting here playing with some telephone parts because what I really want to do I can't do because my cordless drill is charging. I'm looking at a dial, a hook switch, and an F1 handset and imagining what I could do with some three-eights-inch plywood, some glue, some screws, a short piece of pipe and a dowel rod, an angle grinder, and some black paint.

Kenny C

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May 31, 2011, 01:20:30 AM
QuoteI'm just sitting here playing with some telephone parts because what I really want to do I can't do because my cordless drill is charging. I'm looking at a dial, a hook switch, and an F1 handset and imagining what I could do with some three-eights-inch plywood, some glue, some screws, a short piece of pipe and a dowel rod, an angle grinder, and some black paint.

Some one wants to be arrested by the phone police by the sounds of it haha ;) ;D
In memory of
  Marie B.
1926-2010

deedubya3800

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May 31, 2011, 01:28:36 AM
Quote from: Kenny C on May 31, 2011, 01:20:30 AMSome one wants to be arrested by the phone police by the sounds of it haha ;) ;D
No, no, none of that! The only way I could get into any trouble with them is if I try to pass off the result of my fun as some kind of genuine prototype for something. I just want to build a working desk set out of parts that were never originally intended to go together. A true Frankenphone, if you will.

dsk

#7
May 31, 2011, 04:34:11 AM
Not a bad idea.
I have no pictures, or the phone i made at age of 13.

A plastic cabinet, 1/2 plastic tube as the cradle. a nail through  the cradle down to a micro-switch in the cabinet.
An old handset (English) with press while speaking lever, some rubber cord , an old dial (Norwegian), an induction coil, (German) a buzzer (Swedish) some random wires, capacitor etc. All sprayed with black paint.

Living in a flat with an unsecured termination for about 15 apartments, it gave room for some fun   :D

Ringing from one neighbour to another, the first thought the tinkling was some kind of ringing, both answered, and i just listened. Extremely funny at 13.

Later the same year climbing up and connecting to a telephone line in the woods, and yes it was working.

Of course i understood this was wrong, and did not use it anymore.

Today I may look back, and I just hope, and believe my son not doing things like that. But I couldn't be really angry if he did. 

dsk

deedubya3800

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May 31, 2011, 04:47:08 AM
Haha! That sounds great! But no, I'm not up to any of that funny business.

But I'm also going to need some putty and my Dremel.
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