On 08/23/2013 12:54 PM, Steven Landon wrote:
Vintage Rotary Telephones- Stromberg Carlson,
Western Electric, ITT- All
Desktop Sets $15 bucks each Mainly in white and beige with a olive green
here and there
Goes with the territory, I suppose :) I picked up a nice little desktop
Stromberg-Carlson the other day which has a smaller-than-usual rotary dial
mounted in the handset itself (I've only ever seen rotaries in the base
Sounds like a Trimline/Trendline (I think 'Trimline' was a trademark so
some other manufacturers called them 'Trendlines' instead).
THe 10 holes in the dial are alsmost, but not quitem, eqaully speaced.
There is not the big gap between '1' and '0' as on a normal UK or US
dial. They had to do this as they couldn't reduce the size of the holes
too much (a normal finger has to be able to fit int them). To get this to
work, the finger stop on the dial moves when you dial. So you get a
reasonalbe dial fingerwheel motion for a '1', etc.
I bougth oen last year over hewre. It's an interesting little telephone.
At least on mine the circuitry in the hadnset is a flexible PCB, that in
the base unit (which contains the ringer (bell) and its capacitor) is all
hwardwired to screw terminals. There were scheamtics inside each part.
A search from the Telephone Collectors Internationl web sith should turn
up a scheamtic anyeway. And probably repair information for the rigner
and dial.
-tony