Western Electric 466

[Sargeguy]

I won this beauty on eBay this weekend.  It arrived today well-packed.  I have only started fooling with it.






My goal is to hook this up to a normal line and use it in my office.

[Sargeguy]

From Paul-f's site: 

6-button keyset for use with 755A PBX.  Only one set of Tip and Ring go to the set, as line switching was done in the PBX.

[bingster]

That's a beaut, Sargeguy.   It looks like the buttons light up, too.  I don't think they all did that.

[Sargeguy]

That was the selling point for me.  Now all I need is a 755A PBX!!!

[Steve K]

I'm not sure that you would want to deal with a 755.  They are fairly big.  To bad you can not convert your phone to use in a 1A KTU as they are small and easier to find.  I have several 400 series key phones hooked up, some with lamps some without.  An extra relay is needed for the lamp circuit.

[Dennis Markham]

I must be missing something.  I don't see a link or a photo. ?

[Steve]

I dont know .
I wont talk.
your secret's safe with me.

[Sargeguy]

Here are links to the photos

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_26I3Nyjgm7Q/SgN_493MiQI/AAAAAAAAFj8/ztzxaY_rAI0/WECO%20466A%201.JPG   dead link


http://lh6.ggpht.com/_26I3Nyjgm7Q/SgN_5GEOQKI/AAAAAAAAFkA/66UQ0zHDfYI/WECO%20466A%203.JPG   dead link


http://lh6.ggpht.com/_26I3Nyjgm7Q/SgN_5SU18xI/AAAAAAAAFkE/ppkzmx-NDSM/WECO%20466A%205.JPG   dead link

[HobieSport]

I don't think those links work, Sarge.  But I did read up on the 446 on Paul F's site.

[contraste]

No photos and broken links.

Does the phone even exist? 

[bingster]

It exists 

[foots]

Cool phone. I saw that one on e-bay, at least I pretty sure it was that one.

[HobieSport]

They do look cool and if one wanted to, it could be fun to hook one up to an in-house or inter-office system as they were made for. Interesting pairing of the brass and steel gongs in the one pictured.

[BDM]

I have one also. But, haven't even considered digging into it yet.

[AET]

I love these phones, just the way they're contoured gives them almost a typewriter look.