Need Help With 302 Wiring

[gands-antiques]

Hello,

I need some help with a WE 302 (non-metal base) that I purchased at an antiques store in Missouri last week. It was tagged as working but the cloth mounting cord had been cut and only bare wires were exposed.  I put  a module cord on it and it doesn't work...no dial tone or anything.  I checked out the TCI Library for the wiring diagram and I tried two ways to wire the two mounting cord wires but it still didn't work.

I'm including a few pictures for reference...

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Gary

[Phonesrfun]

The line cord should go between L1 and Y/L2, as in the middle photo.  To ring, the black ringer wire should be moved up to Y/L2 also.

Are you sure that the modular plug at the other end of your cord is wired correctly?

Also, check to see that there is a transmitter element and a receiver element inside the handset handle, and that they are both making contact.

[jem872]

Hello Gary. It looks like the black ringer wire is going to ground. I have been told this goes to terminal K. You may want to check this out and see if that may be the case.

[Dennis Markham]

I have always connected the black ringer wire to "K" as well.  Maybe I've been doing it wrong or there is more than one way to wire it.

[Doug Rose]

Your phone looks like an very early themoplastic 302. Can you get a close up of the orange vermilion. It should be a date. This could be a very hard to find phone. It looks like everything in the base is dated 5/41, May 1941. The dial is an after ad. Unscrew the handset caps and check the dates on the elements. Is the hookswitch cover metal? I think you have a find!! Post some pictures of the outside and the date......Doug

[twocvbloke]

The shell date in the pic above appears to be "4 10 41" after zooming in on it with my galaxy tab...

[Doug Rose]

It was made well before my July 31 1941!!

[gands-antiques]

Well, thanks again to everyone.  I changed the line cord and I got a dial tone and could dial out. I moved the black ringer wire to the L2 terminal and there was a constant buzz.  I moved the black wire to the L1 terminal and everything is working perfectly.

The date on the inside base is 5-41, I believe the date inside the case appears to be 1-10-41 and the the handset mouthpiece element is 5-41.  Surprisingly, there are no cracks in the thermoplastic case or in the handset.

If anyone is interested in it I might be wiling to sell it.


Thanks again to everyone...you've saved me again!!

Gary