Anyone any good with old phones??

[Moley]

I've recently aquired some old BT trimphones. I don't expect the younger members will know what they are. Anyway, the old dial types work fine. I've also got a couple of push button ones. Everything seems okay with them apart from the ringer (warbler?) doesn't work on either of them. I've checked the cable connections and the dial and push button are both wired the same. Any thoughts?
I have got another complete with party line switch. That takes me back....

 

[DPG]

The old phones need pin 3 of the BT socket connecting. Modern phones don't and so often pin 3 isn't wired up. It supplies ring power.

 

[ruston]

I've recently aquired some old BT trimphones. I don't expect the younger members will know what they are. Anyway, the old dial types work fine. I've also got a couple of push button ones. Everything seems okay with them apart from the ringer (warbler?) doesn't work on either of them. I've checked the cable connections and the dial and push button are both wired the same. Any thoughts?
I have got another complete with party line switch. That takes me back....

The main thing I remember about them is '3 is the ringer' .

 

[ruston]

Snap.

 

[i=p/u]

Resistor needed for some????

 

[Moley]

Just seems strange that the dial type work but the push button type don't. The ringer board looks the same.
It does seem weird listening to the pulses when you dial on the push button ones.

 

[i=p/u]

https://telephonesuk.org.uk/conversion/

 

[Moley]

Thanks. I'll have a play tomorrow.

 

[nicebutdim]

Never got to see a trimphone in the flesh - they were a bit fancy and probably too modern for the rural area I grew up in.

First thing that came to mind was Noel Edmonds in Swap Shop.

 

[Moley]

First thing that came to mind was Noel Edmonds in Swap Shop.

I can only appologise. Nothing should bring that to mind!!!

 

[Megawatt]

I've recently aquired some old BT trimphones. I don't expect the younger members will know what they are. Anyway, the old dial types work fine. I've also got a couple of push button ones. Everything seems okay with them apart from the ringer (warbler?) doesn't work on either of them. I've checked the cable connections and the dial and push button are both wired the same. Any thoughts?
I have got another complete with party line switch. That takes me back....

I also have an old set of phones and they came in handy when hunting a wire

 

[littlespark]

I’ve still go Swap Shops phone number burned into my memory....

 

[Moley]

I've got Tiswas burned into my memory. Ah, Sally James. Hard to believe she's now 70.

 

[littlespark]

Has turned into another retro vintage “do you remember” thread.... you’ll have someone spouting catchphrases in a minute....

swapshop, tiswas, crackerjack (crackerjack!) the wide awake club with michaela strachan

what was that one with the old fella in a tracksuit, big chair.... cigar....
Now then, now then.... I can’t recall???

 

[Moley]

How many remember what Tiswas means? No googling!