Siemens Auso S62

[LarryInMichigan]

I just received this: ebay link.  It was a $20 BIN, so I bought it.  I like the styling of these 1960s Italian phones, but I am not quite crazy about the color of this one.  It really screams 1970s.  I see "7505" and "7506" printed in various places, so I am wondering if the phone was made in 1975.  The phone arrived rather dirty, but it is in pretty good condition, and it does work.  There was a paper with a wiring diagram inside the phone, so I am including a scan of it here.

Larry

[dsk]

Great.
Pretty advanced anti sidetone circuit compared to German phones too.

Since you now have the Italian plug, would you please care to measure the size of the pins, and the distance between them.
It looks like the old Finish/Norwegian style, but are not listed as equal.

(The Norwegian jacks has distance c-c for the 2 line pins: 11mm or 7/16", and approx 15mm or 19/32", and the holes are 6mm or 15/64" )

dsk

[LarryInMichigan]

The center-to-center distance between the two top pis is about 10.5mm.  The distance to the center of the third pin from each of the tow is about 15mm.  The pins are about 18mm long.

Larry

[dsk]

Thank you, I'll guess that's equal enough to be used here too.

dsk

[LarryInMichigan]

The plug is not of much use to me here, and I don't plan on moving to Italy any time soon (though the weather is probably better there).  If someone would like to trade something for it, contact me.

Larry

[LarryInMichigan]

I cleaned and polished the phone and reassembled it this morning.  It works very well, but it is still orange.  Here are a couple of "after" pictures (please disregard the dial gasket which is sticking out of the shell).

Larry

[WesternElectricBen]

Looks nice!

Ben

[DavePEI]

We've got samples of Western Electric, Northern Electric, Automatic Electric, etc. why the heck not collect Semen samples?

D.

[WesternElectricBen]

We've got samples of Western Electric, Northern Electric, Automatic Electric, etc. why the heck not collect Semen samples?

D.

Uh.. Dave, check out how you spell Seimens...
Ben

[HarrySmith]

Agreed

Leave those samples to the bank

[DavePEI]

We've got samples of Western Electric, Northern Electric, Automatic Electric, etc. why the heck not collect Semen samples?

D.

Uh.. Dave, check out how you spell Seimens...
Ben

Bully Bully!

[WesternElectricBen]

We've got samples of Western Electric, Northern Electric, Automatic Electric, etc. why the heck not collect Semen samples?

D.

Uh.. Dave, check out how you spell Seimens...
Ben

Bully Bully!

What's that suppose to mean?

Ben

[DavePEI]

We've got samples of Western Electric, Northern Electric, Automatic Electric, etc. why the heck not collect Semen samples?

D.

Uh.. Dave, check out how you spell Seimens...
Ben

Bully Bully!

What's that suppose to mean?

Ben

Don't get paranoid. The spelling was intentional. What animal does a farmer collect his "siemens" samples from (aside from Horses)? Before I retired from the post office, we used to have little stainless cans shipped from farmer to farmer all of the time to use in their insemination programs! Yuck!

Dave