Make your Fisher Price telephone work for real!

[Matilo Telephones]

It will cost you a princess, though. I suppose a Genie would work too.

Nice article:

http://makezine.com/2008/12/12/chatter-telephone/

[Contempra]

Good idea if you have some old piece phone and if you don't know what to do ...

[paul-f]

The Crosley phone has never looked better!   

[twocvbloke]

The Crosley phone has never looked better!   

Which part? In pieces or in the Fisher-Price toy?

[Contempra]

The Crosley phone has never looked better!   

Probably Paul but i don't have a crosley in my collection. So I don't know nothing about this brand


FRENCH : Probablement Paul mais je n'ai pas de Crosley dans ma collection. Alors je ne sais rien de cette marque.

[WesternElectricBen]

Hey, this is not a bad idea, I have an ol' junker princess and a toy like this, I think I might actually attempt this!

Ben

[Contempra]

Hey, this is not a bad idea, I have an ol' junker princess and a toy like this, I think I might actually attempt this!

Ben

So, go ahead Ben !..and show us your invention.

Alors, vas-y Ben !...et montre nous ton invention.

[WesternElectricBen]

Hey, this is not a bad idea, I have an ol' junker princess and a toy like this, I think I might actually attempt this!

Ben

So, go ahead Ben !..and show us your invention.

Alors, vas-y Ben !...et montre nous ton invention.

I hope I do, I am very lazy so it might be a little while, as I need to finish a project or two before!
Ben

[Contempra]

No problem Ben.

Pas d problèmes Ben

[twocvbloke]

I hope I do, I am very lazy so it might be a little while, as I need to finish a project or two before!
Ben

It's the man's prerogative, we say we'll do things, and often we take a long time to do what we say...

[Matilo Telephones]

Yes, I'm working on a project now for which I've have acquired the parts years ago.
First give it a good thought. A very good thought. Then think again. Take a good look, change your mind, think again. And go do something else. Etc. 

[twocvbloke]

One of the things I did that took a long time to finish was making a custom LNB bracket for my BSB minidish (some of the elder brits here may remember BSB (British Satellite Broadcasting) and their Squarials, they also had small dishes for when they hadn't got enough stock of the squarials available), so I could fit a modern LNB in place of the old stock Circularly polarised LNB, all I had to do was take a piece of a heatsink out of a blown computer power supply, cut it to shape, drill holes and spray it black, I started in 2006 with cutting it out, drilled the holes and test-mounted it in 2011, and I've still yet to spray it black, maybe that'll be for 2014, then it'll be truly finished...

It's like british rail of old, slow, unreliable, but it'll get there eventually...

[Sargeguy]

Cool idea, I think a red cloth cord would look better than that coiled one.

[Matilo Telephones]

That´s a good point. Yes, that would definitely look more toyey.

Our FP telephone has a blue cord, by the way.