How to build a WE500-based bellset?

[twocvbloke]

Well, I finally did it, I went to Maplin in Newcastle, bought a plastic enclosure case thing, forgot to get stick-on rubber feet though, and as luck would have it, they had almost exactly the capacitor I needed, 275vAC 0.47uF (Maplin code no. N72CN, turns out to be metallised paper, and discontinued at Maplin, but it's working and I'm not over-driving it), rings the bells perfectly, and I'm happy...

Just need to drill out some sound holes and stick on some of them sticky rubber feet and it'll be perfect...

And some pics (with a slight comparison to the BT50E bellset fitted with a proper GPO coil and bells cos the cheap chinese-made parts were rubbish):

[twocvbloke]

Sound holes drilled, I followed & expanded on the pattern off the base of a 500 phone, didn't sound too loud, so hen added more on the side, and now sounds brilliantly loud, so it's 99% done, just waiting for the feet to arrive and I'll be (bell)set...

Pics...

[southernphoneman]

twocvbloke,i don t know if you are aware(i am sure that you are) but there is a diagram in this forum where you can use a model 500/554 and convert it over to a 685 subset.i did this  for my 202 and even used this forum before i was a member.basically you take the 500/554 and diconnect the hookswitch wire and/or remove them because they need to be disabled. you also disconnect the dial assembly.then you have your network and your ringer assembly left, however see the photo below.if you haven t figured it out already maybe this will help.

[twocvbloke]

Yeah, I know about that, but currently don't have anything that requires a Subset 685 at the moment, or a GPO equivalent (Bellset 50B or 50D), but the project box I used for my ringer will accommodate a 425-type network if I do decide to construct one...

[southernphoneman]

cool deal

[dsk]

  You have done a nice job there.

dsk

[twocvbloke]

Thanks, I replaced the GPO terminal block with one of them red 6-way ones I got a while back to neaten it up a bit, and of course it got rubber feet eventually...

Only thing is, I decided not to use it as intended as a ringer on the phoneline so I could hear it ring, but as we've been getting so many nuisance calls lately that it'd drive me up the wall...