My first Payphone

[mentalstampede]

WDS, I'm guessing you understand how to wire this, because of your extensive phone knowledge. I did find a 531, although I'm not sure if it will work, as there are no inside pics. Link: http://tinyurl.com/ohlotn8

But, for people newly interested in payphones, it's really a model 500 (phone part) with a coin assembly. That's why a network is necessary, b/c they use to use coin lines which were controlled by operators. (please correct me if I'm wrong about anything.)

Ben

531 is just a ringer. It contains no network parts.

[poplar1]

A 687A doesn't have a network, only a ringer and a capacitor. Someone has added the network to your 687A, in effect converting it to a 685A.

In my similar payphone, I'm running a 687A subset. The number doesn't really seem to matter, unless it could be there is a freq. ringer or missing 500 series parts.

Ben

[WesternElectricBen]

Woops, sorry! Thanks for correcting me, though.

Ben

[xhausted110]

you are right about the coin lines, but they were automatic, unless you called the operator, that is.