bud-- wrote:
Twayne wrote:
wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:20:45 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski"
wrote:
RJ-11, a 6 pin plug & jack, with 6 pins, only 2 or 4 of them used,
is correct for ALL analog telephones, rotary or DTMF. Either one, you
connect them red wire to red wire and yellow wire to yellow wire.
Red an green were the wires for the phone. Black and yellow could be
used for a 2nd line or power for a light in some phones.
That old rotary phone is coming back in style. There is a demand as
people are restoring older homes and want the old phones in the
colors to match the 70's decor.
You should see the outrageous prices they charge for those old rotaty
phones on Ebay and other online auctions. Not that I'd want one....
What great news. I can clean out part of the basement and get rich.
Chuckle. Take 'collectible' values with a grain of salt. In the case of
ebay and old phones (which I happen to have a bunch of), I did some
looking in the completed sales, not just the current asking prices.
Oddball and novelty phones did okay, but conventional ones, not so much.
WE/Ma Bell sold/abandoned in place a hell of a lot of rotary (and early
TT) desk and wall phones- millions are still out there and in use, with
people who don't move every seven years. And old real phones are
heavy. You will have to charge so much for shipping, that people will
think you are ripping them off.
I may bother to clean up and sell a few of the odd ones in my accidental
collection some day. But the value isn't high enough, so far, to make it
worth a lot of effort on my part. As long as I have extra storage space,
they aren't costing me anything sitting there.
As to not wanting one- of the 5 phones currently hooked up in this
house, 4 are old WE phones. (I have a disposable phone in guest room,
just for the memory function on it, handy for 20-digit international
dial-around services.) And yes, the one in master bedroom is rotary. I
may make an outgoing call from that room once a year, and it still works
fine and looks pretty. How many modern disposables will be able to say
that after the 25+ years I've had that one?
aem sends...