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AECo Automatic Electric 980/981/982 "Styleline" Phones

Started by AE_Collector, April 16, 2012, 02:14:19 AM

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SUnset2

Bringing back an old thread, I just got an AE Styline phone in a color I hadn't seen before.  I haven't been trying to collect the Styline colors, but I couldn't resist this one.  I've got a couple of the Stromberg-Carlson swirl colors, but I haven't seen an AE swirl before.

This is blue/white swirl.  I assume it is late production as it has a small modular handset connector and a plastic base.  It has tone dialing.

Kellogg Kitt

Interesting!  I was not aware that these were ever made in swirl colors.


allnumbedup

#17
I probably spent too much time restoring this Gardenian White 980 Style Line.  I had it posted with different plastics as a parts phone on ebay with no takers, then wound up coming into another white one that I bleached and sanded back into whiteness, combined parts and thought I had it finished--- but never could get the pushbuttons to break dialtone when I reassmbled it. I replaced out components, rechecked wiring and cords but then broke down and bought an inexpensive brown model for the dialpad .  I wound up scanning and recreating the paper faceplate in orange. Also, the brown 980 had a neat GTE sticker under the designation card which I am sharing here. I plan to reassemble the brown one with a square button pad I have and maybe make and use a harvest yellow faceplate for that. Got the white one done today and working.  All the Style Lines I have are non-lighted--which I have learned is common.
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allnumbedup

#18
Here is the brown GTE Styleline with the fantasty yellow insert that I just finished.  I ran into my least favorite problem with plastics---a polane painted part that I did not know was painted. I only found out while trying to buff out a scratch and got past the paint exposing a slightly different color brown plastic.  I had to sand the paint off the outside top side of the phone by the receiver cradle and the inside of the cradle. You can see the plastic-paint interface on the inside of the cradle in the last picture under bright angled light. The paint was applied brown on brown so could have been worse. I have another Styelineline to do but think I need a break from all the curves outside, tight wiring inside, and the ridiculously temperamental GTE single gong bells of this era.
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