Restoring a Gray 150G Payphone

[cihensley@aol.com]

The first three picture are the set as acquired. The next three are the set restored. Dennis Hallworth (decins) did the nickel plating on the coin slot.

Chuck

[Doug Rose]

Simply beautiful.....an outstanding phone....Doug

[Phonesrfun]

Excellent restoration work!

Beautiful.

[Dennis Markham]

Wow!  What a great looking telephone.  Congratulations on that one, Chuck.

[dencins]

Fantastic job Chuck.  It looks terrific.

Dennis Hallworth

[Phonesrfun]

Kind of makes one's mouth water.

[cihensley@aol.com]

Thank you for the kind comments.

Chuck

[johnnyjt]

Hi Chuck

Phone looks great.  Can you post inside photos?


JohnnyJT     
South Philly

[cihensley@aol.com]

johnnyjt:

Here are photos of the inside.

Chuck

[dpaynter1066]

It's really amazing how relatively "few" real changes were ever made to the Grey mechanism from start to the finish with the coming of the single slot stuff. The coin relay was altered a bit, anti-stuffing device added and change to a handset about the biggest thing I guess.

I wish I had bought the phoneco repro one when it was offered here, but I didn't want to have to eat macaroni and cheese for a week every day at that time.

Beautifully executed work.

[johnnyjt]

Hi Chuck

The back is nice and clean and I guess
in time you wil clean up the top.
The main thing it is original for its time
period.

Thank you so much for the photos.

JohnnyJT   
South Philly

[erik666]

I just got a gray not as beautiful as this @
How old are the phone that say Gray paystation on the bottom?>

[rdelius]

Pre 1948 I think. You set is from Rochester NY. Some of these 150gj55b sets were converted from 2 piece units. Look under the instruction card holder and you might see the marks in the paint from the transmitter mount. I think your upper housing is a steel one and not the earlier cast iron one -no lip