my "new" toy :)

[ElvisSkrt]

I just wanted to share with you all my last toy

[gugi]

that's very cool, now i want one too

[thebigspendur]

Yea cool just don't tell me it has a digital keypad or I'm gonna hurl.

[EMC45]

My Dad got one like that a few years back and rewired it to work and it worked well. It was Bakelite though. The ringer was in the base too. Neat phone man!

[ElvisSkrt]

thebigspendur: no, it's the real thing with the dial not a replica

[jbcohen]

I have seen two types of those phones: there is the vintage type and the more modern type. The vintage one that I saw has no modern parts in it what so ever, its works the same way it did when it was first put together. I saw what the seller often referred to as a gutted version, in this version the insides of the phone ahd been removed and had been completly redone from start. Both phones still worked and could place calls if you wanted, however the vintage type had to have an interesting connection between the phone and the wires. Modern phones have a different types of wires that connect it to the phone network and the boxes that were needed to make the vintage one work looked sort of clumsy but the phone really did work but one would have a hard time listening to the other person on the phone since the volume was not exactly great and reception left something to be desired. The gutted version had a standard phone plug in the back and got excellent reception.

[MrRyder]

You think you would of had a good shave before posing for a picture on the SRP forum's.

Cool phone BTW.

[sleekandsmooth]

dont think its somethin i would be using but hey whatever floats your boat

[ElvisSkrt]

jbcohen what boxes did you mean when you said "and the boxes that were needed to make the vintage one work looked sort of clumsy"