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21st Jan 2017, 6:53 pm | #1 |
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312L telephone without Bells - but something else in its place
I acquired my granddads old 312L and the dial wasn't turning. I decided to fix it just out of interest using an online guide. Glad to say that's done, but while I had the phone open, I noted it didn't have the two bells that other photos on the Internet have.... And instead there is a something else. Can anyone point me in the right direction as im quite interested in it now.
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21st Jan 2017, 8:57 pm | #2 |
Dekatron
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Re: 312L telephone without Bells - but something else in its place
That looks like the remnants of an old doorbell. I wouldn't think that it will work as a telephone bell. Was the phone used as an intercom perhaps?
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21st Jan 2017, 10:39 pm | #3 |
Octode
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Re: 312L telephone without Bells - but something else in its place
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23rd Jan 2017, 12:06 pm | #4 |
Pentode
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Re: 312L telephone without Bells - but something else in its place
If it was part of a planset then the trembler bell would have been operated via a button switch on the remote phone via a small DC supply from batteries. Unfortunately this means you won't be able to get this phone ringing on a regular phone line unless you put in a magneto bell set. Also, it looks like the actual bell has gone missing from yours.
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23rd Jan 2017, 12:47 pm | #5 | |
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Re: 312L telephone without Bells - but something else in its place
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Wo betide you if you did anything that wasn't to the 'N' diagram in GPO days. Plus the buzzer is not a GPO one and no GPO engineer would leave anything in that state anyway. To my mind a 'bodge' after it got into other hands. Ian |
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