question about touch tone conversion parts

[Claven2]

Does anyone know if such a beast exists as a push-button or touch tone 3" dial exists that replaces a generic vintage rotary dial so that a vintage phone could be made to look original, but that the dial is actually a modern push-button affair?

I know entire repro phones exist, but I'd like ot know if you can convert a real, more unusual phone, like say an AE space saver, to have modern non-rotary features?

I personally prefer dial, but I need a new kistchen wall phone and my wife is not a rotary dialling fan.

[twocvbloke]

I think such things do exist, but as to their availability, I personally don't know!!

If you want a vintage phone that is touchtone, how about getting something like a WE 2554? It's nice and compact, has a real ringer and looks nice...

I have the Cortelco version and it makes for a nice kitchen phone, compact, out of the way, and fit it with a long handset cable and it'll reach most parts of an average kitchen...

[Claven2]

Yeah, that's a possibility, but if I want ot wean the Mrs. off of modern cordnelss handsets, it will need to have a redeeming decore trait.  Personelly, I think an AE space-saver with the dial up top on the narrow shaft just looks so retro-cool for a wall phone that she might go for it, provided it's touch-tone. 

I might be asking for the impossible though.

[Mr. Bones]

If memory serves me correct, Ray makes a tt pad casting for the 211's. might be worth a look...

Bones

[Jim Stettler]

WE had a round TT dial for some of their design line sets. I thinkthe  Celebrity was one of them.
Jim

[poplar1]

A Northern Electric 2554 or ITT 3554 is identical to a rotary 554 other than the dial. It's not 3" but the larger size as on 500s. So it looks 1960s instead of 1940s.

[Mr. Bones]

This would definitely look more vintage, imho:

Put this 211 tt pad housing:

http://www.telephonecreations.com/prod02.htm

On a WE211 / G-Mount, add housing, and pad. Add nice F1 handset. Poof! Bob's your uncle!

I think you will need a subset, unless WE did something miniature and magic with the 2211's.

You end up with this: http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=8761.msg94091#msg94091

(Posted pics minus the F1, of course.)

    Mid-Century Modern old enough for your decor? Buy / make a 3554. OPW has the 5" dial pad inserts that will fit any readily-available, garden-variety 554-type. Green Brown Beige Aqua White. Other colours require painting, apparently... $9.95 for white, 14.95 for Aqua, etc.

http://www.oldphoneworks.com/_search.php?page=1&q=3554

I am going to do one, my dang self; I just like the looks... a 500 will follow suit, afterwards. I exponentially prefer it to the square TT instruments WE decided upon...

Best regards!

Mr. Bones

[Phonesrfun]

The thought is sacreligeous to me, but Crosley makes some 302/354-style phones that has such a thing.  The best thing to do (in my opinion) is to have an authentic rotary phone and wire in a touch-tone pad in a box external to the phone.  Another option would be a Rototone.