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Telephone Identification, Repair & Restoration => Telephone Component Identification => Dials & Touchtone Pads => Topic started by: cloyd on December 01, 2016, 03:20:08 PM

Title: Is this AE dial originally from a payphone?
Post by: cloyd on December 01, 2016, 03:20:08 PM
Bought this phone online and received a few surprises (not the good kind) with it.  I am wondering what anyone can tell me about the dial.  In the second photo, is that a date?  The 0 might be a Q.  New holes were even drilled into the shell to accept the wrong dial.  Ugh.

Thank you,

Tina
Title: Re: Is this AE dial originally from a payphone?
Post by: rdelius on December 05, 2016, 12:26:19 PM
That dial was a newer AE that had a fingerstop that was attached to the base with one screw.This screw was ground off and milled out so an older fingerstop would be installled so the dial would   fit in a 3 inch hole.We did this at COT for a supply of dials for cheeper telephones.This was not one of ours though.
Title: Re: Is this AE dial originally from a payphone?
Post by: Greg G. on December 06, 2016, 01:31:11 PM
Quote from: cloyd on December 01, 2016, 03:20:08 PM
In the second photo, is that a date?

Thank you,

Tina

AE doesn't do dates.
Title: Re: Is this AE dial originally from a payphone?
Post by: markosjal on May 24, 2017, 07:00:18 PM
Life is like a box of chocolates... and so is buying a used phone