[Hallicrafters] Off-subject question on telephones

[jbrannig at optonline.net]

Same here.  There is a vintage rotary dial phone on one extension.
It works when the power goes out and  the kids show their friends the "wierd" telephone.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: lrlayton at cox.net
Date: Sunday, June 10, 2007 1:55 pm
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Off-subject question on telephones
To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net, Waldo Magnuson 

> I have been using a 1950's vintage dial phone made by North 
> Electric for several years at my location without a problem. So, 
> I don't think the phone company has changed their voltage spec. 
> Perhaps your ringer coil was ready to go, or as others have 
> suggested, the capacitor might be bad.
> 
> Les Layton
> Las Vegas, NV
> 
> 
> ---- Waldo Magnuson wrote: 
> > My daughter bought a c.1938 WE302 telephone. The phone rang 
> twice and 
> > then the ringer coil opened up (too much voltage I guess). Is 
> there a 
> > Hallicrafters person on the forum expert in telephones that 
> could 
> > contact me? I'm thinking that maybe a couple of protection 
> zener 
> > diodes across the ringer coil could protect burn-out of a 
> replacement 
> > coil. Thanks.
> > 73, Skip W7WGM
> > 
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