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April 9, 2008 at 9:39 pm

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DaftFader wrote:

iirc theres a switch on the phone to turn it from digital to analoge …

its an 80s/90s repro then
April 9, 2008 at 9:42 pm

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MrAHC wrote:

its an 80s/90s repro then

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April 9, 2008 at 9:47 pm

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General Lighting wrote:

had a quick look and it is the US/Chinese design so it should work on just 2 wires to ring so if its not working its more likely to have an internal wiring fault

most of these Chinese phones use a standard “phone on a chip” type circuit. it may be repairable if you have some basic soldering/electronics knowledge and can replace the tone/pulse switch.

the more expensive one is a Post Office/British Telecom TSR1001 for dial or a TSR8021 for pushbutton. I think these are rare and collectors items as they were classed as BT property and were fucking expensive to rent for what they actually were (just a bog standard Plessey set!)

http://www.britishtelephones.com/tsr1001.htm
http://www.britishtelephones.com/tsr8021.htm

yeah i had a niggaling feeling it was a chineese one as iirc its got made in china on the bottom .. but that dont mean it was made for use in china tho … it works on one setting and not the other .. so its probably doesnt suprt one of the settings mby?
April 9, 2008 at 9:53 pm

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DaftFader wrote:

yeah i had a niggaling feeling it was a chineese one as iirc its got made in china on the bottom .. but that dont mean it was made for use in china tho …

more likely made for the American market – the Chinese and US phone systems are technically identical. you can use US or Chinese phones on British lines but the sound quality isn’t that good unless they are “CE marked”

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it works on one setting and not the other .. so its probably doesnt suprt one of the settings mby?

these days not all phone lines (particularly those from cable companies) support pulse dialling (this is when you hear clicks instead of musical tones) – its a very old method used with actual dial phones.
April 9, 2008 at 9:56 pm

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General Lighting wrote:

more likely made for the American market – the Chinese and US phone systems are technically identical. you can use US or Chinese phones on British lines but the sound quality isn’t that good unless they are “CE marked”

these days not all phone lines (particularly those from cable companies) support pulse dialling (this is when you hear clicks instead of musical tones) – its a very old method used with actual dial phones.

yeah thats true .. im with bt tho .. and im sure i used to have a pulse dile phone working here b4 .. thats why i thought it was the phone that was broken origanaly .. i remeber looknig into it at the time and not figuring it out 😥
April 9, 2008 at 9:57 pm

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General Lighting wrote:

these days not all phone lines (particularly those from cable companies) support pulse dialling (this is when you hear clicks instead of musical tones) – its a very old method used with actual dial phones.

you can get them converted to ‘digital and touch tone’ i used to sell trim phones unconverted for 15 or converted for 45.
April 9, 2008 at 9:59 pm

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MrAHC wrote:

you can get them converted to ‘digital and touch tone’ i used to sell trim phones unconverted for 15 or converted for 45.

RJ?
April 9, 2008 at 10:52 pm

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DaftFader wrote:

RJ?

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April 9, 2008 at 11:03 pm

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I think daftfader may have meant RJ45 – a connector usually used for network hardware (to confuse you all further it is sometimes used for telephones, but only in office structured cabling or the new VOIP telephones).

incidentally if you do ever get a 1970s/80s Post Office / BT telephone which actually has * and # and produces DTMF they are worth a fair bit more (at least £15-20 more refurbished) than dial or pulse models as they were never issued for normal phone lines, only large business customers which could afford the very first digital phone systems. I saw a DTMF trimphone being sold for £100 (ironically the initial trimphone design had many annoying little faults)
April 9, 2008 at 11:09 pm

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General Lighting wrote:

I think daftfader may have meant RJ45

yeah i did … guessing thats not what ahc ment then :laugh_at:
April 9, 2008 at 11:13 pm

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45 as in 45 quid, which is roughly what a properly converted 8700 series telephone (i.e with a BT plug lead) normally goes for second hand. (restored and cleaned up they are actually better quality and nicer to use than loads of the analogue telephones on sale today)

I’ve got one of the red dial ones but I’m keeping that as I restored it myself plus its made in 1972 🙂

One day I’m gonna connect it to a VOIP system just for the comedy value…
April 10, 2008 at 8:56 am

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General Lighting wrote:

I saw a DTMF trimphone being sold for £100 (ironically the initial trimphone design had many annoying little faults)

there usualy around the £45- 60 mark in good nick & rarer colours/push button…

Post office dial phones are £15. £25+ for rarer collours.

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