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WE F1 Handset Non grooved and grooved

Started by Gary Millam, December 29, 2018, 04:01:37 PM

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Gary Millam

While going through my spare handsets box this afternoon I found a non grooved black F1 that I had
forgotten I even had.  It is dated 11-02-37. A grooved F1 that I have on my 1937 302 is dated 10-19-37.
The dates are just two weeks apart from each other, so I'm thinking this must have been near the end of the production run on
non grooved F1's. Here are a couple photos of the handsets.

Gary Millam

kleenax

I've never seen a seamless F1 handset that wasn't Brown; interesting.
Ray Kotke
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Jim Stettler

Quote from: kleenax on December 29, 2018, 08:40:41 PM
I've never seen a seamless F1 handset that wasn't Brown; interesting.
The early ones were. They introduced the groove as a quick way to get rid of the seam mark from the molds. Before that they trimmed and buffed.
I posted an article to the list servers about the moulding process for F1's it showed the machines and described the process. The article was in a Bell publication. It is probably in the TCI library.
Jim
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MMikeJBenN27

So, that's what the grove is for?  Always wondered why some WE handsets didn't have a grove.
Mike

Jack Ryan

Quote from: Jim Stettler on December 29, 2018, 09:07:06 PM
The early ones were. They introduced the groove as a quick way to get rid of the seam mark from the molds. Before that they trimmed and buffed.

Some sort of déjà vu?

What happened to the lessons learnt from the E handset?

Jack