It's my wife's birthday later this month, I decided to make her a surprise present. She doesn't like the modern style telephone in the front room, it doesn't fit with the rest of the decor at all being naff white plastic and not made of wood, iron or bakelite like everything else in here. I could have bought a reproduction, but this is me.... lol.
GPO model 312 telephone, circa 1954. No cords, dialler is jammed, messed with internally already, had it longer than I can remember. I think Mrs S found it in a back lane in Newcastle about 25 years ago. My plan is to make it work, clean it up and plug it in, then phone her from work to say "happy birthday"
So.... take it apart then! Bottom plate off first.
Hmm. full of spiders.
On the inside of the plate is this
rather useful diagram. More useful info was found here so I can set about fixing it later on.
Obviously, the next step was
a million bits. I dismantled the dialler and repaired it (some bits in wrong, others siezed into place) then put it all back together again so I don't lose anything. At the top of the picture is a modern phone (also dissected) which will be donating some parts to make this old thing compatable with a modern exchange. I don't know yet if our local exchange still accepts pulse dialling, it will be cool if it does though! If not, I'm going to fit the DTMF tone generating circuit inside and hide a keypad in the slidey tray on the bottom of the phone.
GPO model 312 telephone, circa 1954. No cords, dialler is jammed, messed with internally already, had it longer than I can remember. I think Mrs S found it in a back lane in Newcastle about 25 years ago. My plan is to make it work, clean it up and plug it in, then phone her from work to say "happy birthday"
So.... take it apart then! Bottom plate off first.
Hmm. full of spiders.
On the inside of the plate is this
rather useful diagram. More useful info was found here so I can set about fixing it later on.
Obviously, the next step was
a million bits. I dismantled the dialler and repaired it (some bits in wrong, others siezed into place) then put it all back together again so I don't lose anything. At the top of the picture is a modern phone (also dissected) which will be donating some parts to make this old thing compatable with a modern exchange. I don't know yet if our local exchange still accepts pulse dialling, it will be cool if it does though! If not, I'm going to fit the DTMF tone generating circuit inside and hide a keypad in the slidey tray on the bottom of the phone.
so I need to hunt through all my boxes of tiny screws before I can do that.
