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Old 12th Nov 2019, 10:37 pm   #12
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Default Re: Telephone Set "F" MK II questions

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Originally Posted by BenHoper View Post
Q2. How do you get the microphone out of the handset? I can't seem to unscrew it. There is a little play then it stops. I can't pull it. Don't want to break it after 75 years.

Thanks,
Ben
I don't know if this applies to your telephone, but on a lot of them the mouthpiece is fitted with a locking bayonet fixing.

Look for a small hole in the side of the mouthpiece, on the side pointing towards the earpiece. Put a small tool in there and press to release the catch, hold the tool in, then turn the mouthpiece anticlockwise and it will come off.
I seem to remember my old mentor showing me the "easy " way to release the lock- use one side of a pair of long nosed pliers ( AKA in PO terms 81's).
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