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Thread Number: 45818
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New rotary phone |
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| Post# 473338 9/22/2024 at 22:13 by Kirbyman65 (USA) | ||
I got this at my local thrift shop on their “vintage day” it was a decent price so i decided to buy it (along with a royal hand vac) I’ve tried to clean it up, but I could use some tips on how to rewire the phone jack on it.
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Post# 473341 , Reply# 1 9/23/2024 at 08:50 by JustJunque  (Western MA) |
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Beautiful phone! And, one of my favorite colors! Do you know what year it was made?
I’ve never converted one from hardwired to modular, but I would imagine it can be done. There are websites and eBay sellers who specialize in vintage phones. Someone with more knowledge than myself should certainly be able to help you out. I’m guessing that it’s a Western Electric. As huge as they were, I would think there would be plenty of bits and pieces still available to accomplish what you need. Good luck! I hope you have fun with it! Barry | ||
| Post# 473342 , Reply# 2 9/23/2024 at 09:23 by Kirbyman65 (USA) | ||
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I think I do | ||
| Post# 473362 , Reply# 3 9/24/2024 at 15:03 by Human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
Those old Western Electric phones were darn near indestructible. I had one for a long time that was made in 1957, black with a black metal dial and a straight handset cord. My dad picked up a wall phone that same government green color at a church rummage sale about 20 years ago for a whopping 75 cents. The last time I saw the thing, it was hanging in their garage, hooked up and fully operational, because Dad kept leaving the cordless phone out there.
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Post# 473363 , Reply# 4 9/24/2024 at 16:44 by JustJunque (Western MA) |
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I have two black 1950s versions with the metal dial. One belonged to my grandmother, probably since it was new. The other one, I picked up at a thrift store.
I just noticed that the one from the thrift store has some sort of adapter on the end of the wall cord, that allows it to plug into a modular jack. So, J, (Kirbyman65), they might not be easy to find any more, but that's one thing you could look for. I would imagine you just match up the colors of the wires, and viola. You have a modular plug! | ||
| Post# 473364 , Reply# 5 9/24/2024 at 18:46 by Human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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I had one of those adapters on my black '57 phone. It had a male modular plug on one end and a female four-prong on the other with about six inches of wire in between. They used to sell them all over the place for like $3 or $4 back in the late '70s and into the '80s. I haven't seen one in forever.
That green phone may have been the main phone for the house. The phone company, back when it was THE phone company, used to require one phone to be hard wired into the house. That may be why it doesn't have a plug on the end. The phones with the four-prong plugs were the "extension" phones. As I've been typing this, I had a kind of out-of-the-box idea. One thing that I do still see in stores is surface mount female modular plugs. Just put one of those on the end of the cord of the green phone and then plug a contemporary modular cable into it and into the wall. Voila! Connection made. | ||
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Post# 473377 , Reply# 6 9/26/2024 at 12:43 by JustJunque (Western MA) |
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Edgar,
I wasn’t familiar with those adapters that you described. But, I believe there are several of them currently listed on eBay. So, that’s certainly an option for the OP. The one on my thrift store phone is entirely different. Those other adapters look a little bit like the converters that I have to use on my rotary phones so that they can dial out. Our phone service doesn’t support rotary dialing. (pulse?) So it has to be converted to tone. | ||
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