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What wallplate for a 554?

Started by dc4code, September 23, 2018, 12:55:21 PM

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dc4code

Hello!

I am getting a Stromberg-Carlson #554 for the wall in the kitchen,

So there is a phone jack near the floor on the wall I want to put it on. So I was thinking of making a splice in that box and running the wire up behind the wall and then out onto another wallplate that the 554 will be connected to.

The only issue is what type of mounting brackets and wallplate do I need?

the phone I got from eBay is only coming with the phone. nothing else.

poplar1

Does the phone you are purchasing have a modular plug (usually blue) on the back? (Perhaps you can provide the ebay link for us.)

If not, you can just use a modular to spade cord (same as for converting any hardwired desk set) and connect the plug into the baseboard jack and the loose ends to L1 and L2 inside the wall phone.
"C'est pas une restauration, c'est une rénovation."--François Martin.

dc4code

Quote from: poplar1 on September 23, 2018, 01:16:02 PM
Does the phone you are purchasing have a modular plug (usually blue) on the back? (Perhaps you can provide the ebay link for us.)

If not, you can just use a modular to spade cord (same as for converting any hardwired desk set) and connect the plug into the baseboard jack and the loose ends to L1 and L2 inside the wall phone.


HarrySmith

Looks like you will need a back plate & a wall plate.
Harry Smith
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Jim Stettler

Quote from: HarrySmith on September 23, 2018, 03:37:51 PM
Looks like you will need a back plate & a wall plate.
o a couple of screws and  a hardwire/mod cord .
Jim S.
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You die, you forget it all.

HarrySmith

Yes, there is always that! You could just screw it right to the wall. Bring your wire up & in through the back, find a stud for at least one screw and an anchor for the other, done!
Harry Smith
ATCA 4434
TCI

"There is no try,
there is only
do or do not"

dc4code

thanks, guys!

I will post pictures in a few days when the phone comes! :)

Butch Harlow

If you intend to use it, find a 228 modular wall plate. It screws into the back of the phone and has wires that go to a sliding male rj-11 adapter. They put them of 554 models that got upgraded to modular during their lifespan. Then you can just buy a regular wall jack and it will hang on the 2 studs and plug right in, no cords necessary. I will try to find a pic of both for you.
Butch Harlow

Butch Harlow

#8
This one is a little pricey, and NT, but will fit. 228 wall plate I have a couple that have this already. See pics for the wall jack as well.
Butch Harlow

dc4code

Thanks, I will consider that.

But being a little short on money for this project I was thinking of running a cable from the jack at the bottom up the wall and put a little opening. then I would connect the cable to the inside of the phone with some spade connectors I have and then fasten the phone onto the wall securely.

If that doesn't work out well I will look into the product you sent me :)

HarrySmith

Quote from: dc4code on September 24, 2018, 10:33:41 AM
But being a little short on money for this project I was thinking of running a cable from the jack at the bottom up the wall and put a little opening. then I would connect the cable to the inside of the phone with some spade connectors I have and then fasten the phone onto the wall securely.

That's what I suggested, all you need is a couple of screws. The economical way to do it!
Harry Smith
ATCA 4434
TCI

"There is no try,
there is only
do or do not"

Key2871

Just run the wire right up the middle of the set. There's a spot for it already in the case.
KEN

poplar1

Please take a picture of the bottom of the housing (shell). There is at least one opening ("mouse hole") for the handset cord, but there may be another one to the left of that hole.

In any case, you don't have to make another cut in the housing. If there is only one hole, you can run the line cord in the same hole as the handset cord. Or, if there is a second hole, closer to the left edge, you can run the wire there.
"C'est pas une restauration, c'est une rénovation."--François Martin.

dc4code

Quote from: poplar1 on September 24, 2018, 03:00:32 PM
Please take a picture of the bottom of the housing (shell). There is at least one opening ("mouse hole") for the handset cord, but there may be another one to the left of that hole.

In any case, you don't have to make another cut in the housing. If there is only one hole, you can run the line cord in the same hole as the handset cord. Or, if there is a second hole, closer to the left edge, you can run the wire there.

I'm not making any holes. there is already a hole on the back where the cable to L1 and L2 and connected to run out. I will have a hole on the wall where I mount it on so it looks nice and clean with no wires coming out.

TelePlay

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I've had more than a few of these and we had one in my boyhood home.

Mounting was to remove the housing, attach the phone directly to the wall with large headed flat head screws using the two slots (in red box) at the top and secured with one large headed flat screw at the bottom (in red box) and the line cord would come out of the wall and go into the phone in one of the two open slots (in green boxes), probably the wider slot to take extra wire inside the phone. Once the metal base was attached to the wall, the housing was replaced to complete the installation.

This image  shows this phone was mounted as such in that white wall paint is on the housing (in the yellow circle). IIRC, the wall had nothing more that a small hole in the wall with the station wire being run inside the wall to the phone mounting location. Also, this type of mount really held the phone to the wall unlike the back plate and "pegged" wall plate which added the convenience of being modular but sort of loose handing on just two pegs.

The alternative to running the station wire within the wall was to drop a line cord down from the phone to a jack near the floor and these phones did have a second slot (mouse hole) in the bottom, next to the handset cord clot (blue box) for the line cord to enter the phone. It did't look as clean as in "in the wall" wire but it worked.

If I'm wrong on any of this, please reply with a correction.