Dial Adjustment

[TelePlay]

Ah, what's the value of an image? A lot!

Your #6 dial has an open center plastic finger wheel.

So, the mounting of the spider that catches or locks the finger wheel to the dial is done by bolting it to the dial main spring shaft (white circle).

The spider has a half circle loop with a tab that locks the finger wheel onto the spider (red circle).

The tab in under the finger wheel between the 9 and 0 (yellow circle).

The finger wheel is removed by turning it clockwise until it stops, holding it there, depressing the locking tab by pushing a thin pin trough the hole and continuing to turn the finger wheel to free it from its mount.

See page 9 of this document:

TCI Finger Wheel Removal Instructions

Given all this, it may be possible to loosen the center nut and rotate the slider a bit on the dial main spring cap (there might be a bit of play on the slider) to better align the dots to the finger holes.

Others may know better about WE pay phones having open center plastic finger wheels.

[Brian B]

Thank you, I will review, do I need an escutcheon tool for removal or something like an awl! 

[TelePlay]

Thank you, I will review, do I need an escutcheon tool for removal or something like an awl! 

No, any stiff wired that goes through the pin hole will work.

Here's one of several topics showing what others use.

https://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=4645.0

If a paper clip fits into the hole, that will work. Whatever you use it should fit loosely through the hole so as to not crack the plastic wheel.

This is the spider that holds the wheel in place, the tab that locks the finger wheel in place is circled in yellow.

[TelePlay]

It may be just distortion of the photo but when I zoom in it appears some of the contact springs are bent.

I just opened up a 202 D1 that has a 6A dated 10-70, quite a new dial.

I took it out because it was running too fast at 10.6 PPS with a break/make ratio of about 64/36 so or needs adjusting, something that could not be done when installed on the D1 (couldn't get the plastic dust cover off.

Posting this because this is what I would call a pristine dial, one not opened up or adjusted in any way from the day it was built.

The leaves do have bends in them but most likely they were in the leafs before they were assembled in the pile up.

And being a clean dial, the position of all the important pulsing and mute components are easily seen.

Being a newer #6 dial, it was the riveted together gear train so won't be using this one to do a tutorial on disassembly, cleaning, lubrication and assembly (I have a sticky #6 on my bench with a screwed-together gear train for that tutorial, someday).