Author Topic: Lamp Phone Atrocities! (Read 343197 times)

HarrySmith · « **Reply #795 on:** December 09, 2019, 06:01:56 PM »

After looking at that "thing". I snooped around that site a little. Some pretty cool stuff. One thing I did find that might be useful is something that was discussed recently, lead free solder:

https://www.sciplus.com/109-leadfree-solder-64229-p

19and41 · « **Reply #796 on:** December 09, 2019, 06:13:03 PM »

Get on their mailing list. They always get interesting stuff. I got a 1000 ML drinking beaker last summer to assist in my hydration.

Western Bell · « **Reply #797 on:** December 12, 2019, 01:47:47 AM »

"Vintage Wall Rotary Phone Tan Color hang up switch. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.

WITH ANY UPCYCLE LAMPS YOU SHOULD ALWAYS USE LED BULBS AS THESE ITEMS WERE NOT INTENDED TO HANDLE THE HEAT OF INCANDESCENT BULBS"

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Wall-Rotary-Phone-Tan-Color-hang-up-switch/124007951534

MMikeJBenN27 · « **Reply #798 on:** December 13, 2019, 03:17:47 AM »

Last year, I bought an NE Uniphone that had been turned into a lamp and I turned it back into a phone, and this past spring, I bought a WE 202 that had been turned into a lamp that I will be turning back into a phone. That is the only way we can save these - buy them and turn them back into phones, just to reverse what those morons are doing. Somebody called Cadillac-modela has some Stromberg-Carlson 1243s that they turned into those darn lamps. I can't right now buy any more phones, I hope somebody else will, and turn those back into phones.

Mike

FABphones · « **Reply #799 on:** December 13, 2019, 03:59:39 AM »

'Vintage Wall Rotary Phone Tan Color hang up switch. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Priority Mail'.

All that effort ~~destroying it~~ turning it into a lamp, no effort at all cleaning it.

Also, made me think of this.
'The Invisible Man Returns (1940)'.

FABphones · « **Reply #800 on:** January 27, 2020, 06:40:50 PM »

Key2871 · « **Reply #801 on:** January 27, 2020, 07:08:05 PM »

I've seen some very... Interesting things, I think this takes a cake.. What in the world, really? Where's the shade for the bulb?

19and41 · « **Reply #802 on:** January 27, 2020, 07:12:57 PM »

Loft deco? Is that art's younger sillier brother?

SUnset2 · « **Reply #803 on:** March 03, 2020, 11:25:01 PM »

Bookends, not a lamp, but harder to make than a lamp, and much harder to convert back to a telephone!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintage-Bell-System-Western-Electric-202-Telephone-Phone-Bookends-POP-ART/254530542829?hash=item3b4333dced:g:2HoAAOSwnRxeXwKb

TelePlay · « **Reply #804 on:** March 06, 2020, 07:20:18 PM »

Quote from: SUnset2 on March 03, 2020, 11:25:01 PM

Bookends, not a lamp, but harder to make than a lamp, and much harder to convert back to a telephone!

Not the same phone but the same idea, spotted in 2018

http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=1351.msg215681#msg215681

Key2871 · « **Reply #805 on:** March 06, 2020, 08:18:09 PM »

This is making me sick 😷...

FABphones · « **Reply #806 on:** April 12, 2020, 05:15:08 AM »

Payphone lamp atrocity.

FABphones · « **Reply #807 on:** April 14, 2020, 02:41:45 PM »

Imperial lamp with drilled Ivory handset.

Jim Stettler · « **Reply #808 on:** April 14, 2020, 03:31:46 PM »

All lot of the Imperial lamps were made by the Telephone Pioneers. It was a fund raising project.

countryman · « **Reply #809 on:** April 14, 2020, 03:35:53 PM »

I'm afraid they did not only drill the handset but also the cradle?

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