I'm tieing the knot! (Receiver & Handset Cord Knot's that is)

[Greg G.]

Ha, ha! No, not THAT knot!    On my hotel phone, the receiver cord had a fancy-shmancy knot with a little loop the hooked on the restrainer hook.  I had to undo it to get the receiver parts off to soak them in Oxyclean, wondering now if that was such a good idea, it was a pain to re-string the receiver cord.

Anyway, can anybody give instruction on how to re-tie that knot?

[Phonesrfun]

I believe the normal practice for the cord stays is a standard square knot.  Maybe some telephone installer that was an ex-Eagle Scout with knot-tying as a merit badge did that one originally.

I think in practice those cords were replaced by many, many people, all who had various skills in knot tying.

There is a diagram in one of the books I have that shows some examples.  I can check for you.

[bingster]

Her are the instructions, from the TCI library:

http://telephonecollectors.org/library/weco/cordswots.pdf

[Dan/Panther]

Bingster;
The link didn't work for me.
D/P

[Phonesrfun]

Try this:

http://telephonecollectors.org/library/weco/cordswots.pdf

[bingster]

Sorry...  I pasted it twice.

[Greg G.]

Those links don't work anymore, but here is the doc.  Now I'm looking for the other end, the restraint knot that goes around the receiver element (different phone).

[davidbholcomb]

Those links don't work anymore, but here is the doc.  Now I'm looking for the other end, the restraint knot that goes around the receiver element (different phone).

Thanks for posting the pdf. The knot is known as a clove hitch.

[poplar1]

For a WE 143 or 144 receiver you tie the leads in a square knot then connect them.

[Greg G.]

For a WE 143 or 144 receiver you tie the leads in a square knot then connect them.

I'm working on my AE hotel phone, it has a restraint string that goes around the receiver element, but unfortunately, I didn't get a good pic of it.  I probably thought it looked easy enough to remember, but now I don't remember.  I can't seem to get the TCI library search function to cooperate.

Actually, I just used the diagram in this thread and it worked.  I formed the loops around the "u-bar" (for lack of a better word to call it) of the receiver element and that worked ok.

[teka-bb]

These are the currents links in the TCI Library related to tieing the knot:
http://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_details&gid=2245&Itemid=2
http://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_details&gid=2246&Itemid=2
http://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_details&gid=2128&Itemid=2
http://www.telephonecollectors.info/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_details&gid=2129&Itemid=2