Antique candlestick phone conversion - 3 prong

telekon

Hi, I don't know if this is the right forum but maybe someone here came across a similar problem as me...

I have bought an antique telephone which has a 3 pronged plug. I have exhaustively searched the web for an adaptor but with no joy.
(Maybe they don't exist. )

I would like to have it functioning but I would prefer not having to take off the original plug. Is this possible and if not, how would I go about converting it?


Thanks.

Please check out the pic below.

coylemj

I doubt if it will work on an exchange line, tone dial phones have been around for more than 20 years so I'd expect that no telephone exchange will accept a pulse dial these days.

If you like the look of it you'll have to buy a reproduction model which uses tone dialling.

Fuzzy Clam

I think pulse dialing is still accepted. I checked on an old Telecom Eireann phone which has both pulse and tone and I was able to phone out on pulse.
Thats not to say that that old phone will work.

I doubt if you will get an adapter. A crude method would be to use choc blocks connected to a cut modern lead. I've no idea which wires go where without seeing the phone though.

Degsy

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

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I doubt if you will get an adapter. A crude method would be to use choc blocks connected to a cut modern lead. I've no idea which wires go where without seeing the phone though.

A friend of mine used that method top connect an old bakelite phone..he couldnt use it to dial out or anything but it did work as a phone extension.

telekon

Degsy wrote: »

A friend of mine used that method top connect an old bakelite phone..he couldnt use it to dial out or anything but it did work as a phone extension.

Interesting. Would love to hear it ring even...