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Help with mounting wall phone
On Oct 19, 2:34*am, Daniel Carlson
wrote: I have an antique wall phone which has been modified to work with today's modular jacks. *Problem is, the phone lacks the mounting hardware on the back which slides over the two slightly protruding screw heads which are found on a standard telephone switchplate, or wall plate. *Does anyone know of an online hardware store that carries such a two hole "keyhole" type mount for wall mounting a telephone? *I've found single keyhole mounts, but would prefer the type that's specifically made for telephones if they're available. TIA. Dan Carlson Wetmore *CO One such plate with filter was in the kit that came with my dsl kit from the phone company, ask around I can't imagine many folks use them. |
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On Oct 19, 12:01*pm, beecrofter wrote:
On Oct 19, 2:34*am, Daniel Carlson wrote: I have an antique wall phone which has been modified to work with today's modular jacks. *Problem is, the phone lacks the mounting hardware on the back which slides over the two slightly protruding screw heads which are found on a standard telephone switchplate, or wall plate. *Does anyone know of an online hardware store that carries such a two hole "keyhole" type mount for wall mounting a telephone? *I've found single keyhole mounts, but would prefer the type that's specifically made for telephones if they're available. TIA. Dan Carlson Wetmore *CO One such plate with filter was in the kit that came with my dsl kit from the phone company, ask around I can't imagine many folks use them. Can't you just put two scres in place on the wall with the correct spacing and then slide the wall phone down on the two screws? IIRC, the spacing is 4" between the two screws. |
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aemeijers wrote:
Daniel Carlson wrote: hr(bob) wrote: On Oct 19, 12:01 pm, beecrofter wrote: On Oct 19, 2:34 am, Daniel Carlson wrote: I have an antique wall phone which has been modified to work with today's modular jacks. Problem is, the phone lacks the mounting hardware on the back which slides over the two slightly protruding screw heads which are found on a standard telephone switchplate, or wall plate. Does anyone know of an online hardware store that carries such a two hole "keyhole" type mount for wall mounting a telephone? I've found single keyhole mounts, but would prefer the type that's specifically made for telephones if they're available. TIA. Dan Carlson Wetmore CO One such plate with filter was in the kit that came with my dsl kit from the phone company, ask around I can't imagine many folks use them. Can't you just put two scres in place on the wall with the correct spacing and then slide the wall phone down on the two screws? IIRC, the spacing is 4" between the two screws. Thanks for the response. The hardware on the wall is already in place. What I need is the hardware that goes on the phone. I could use two separate keyhole mounts, but I'd prefer to find a single plate with two keyholes in it. I thought maybe someone manufactures one specifically for this purpose. Dan Dan Ma Bell had converter plates for the old rotary wall phones- is this what we are talking about? Made the phone stick out from the wall and was usually wobbly to boot. Personally, I would take apart the wall jack, and just hard mount the phone directly to wall with the original screw holes on the back plate. Find some way to go from the red and green (or the blue/white and white/blue wires, if modern wire) wires in the wall to L1 and L2 in the phone. You can even float a small modular jack in the wall if you want to stay modular. Most old wall phones, the shell pops right off. Post a picture of the jack, and the front and back of the phone, and put a link back here. A picture is worth lots of words, etc. -- aem sends... Pretty much what I was going to write. Remove the plate, cut a hole in the wall and add a modular jack. Plug the phone in and as you go to hang it on the wall, stuff the wires inside the hole with the jack. How to hang it depends on the phone. If you can open it up and see the back of it, put a couple screws through and be sure to hit 1 stud, or use molly bolts. |
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Dan:
I have one of those DSL brackets from my kit when I went to the Verizon system. If you would like it, I would be more than happy to ship to you for free. All I ask ,is if it works that you reimburse the shipping cost from Plano Tx. ! Let me know Bill in Plano "beecrofter" wrote in message ... On Oct 19, 2:34 am, Daniel Carlson wrote: I have an antique wall phone which has been modified to work with today's modular jacks. Problem is, the phone lacks the mounting hardware on the back which slides over the two slightly protruding screw heads which are found on a standard telephone switchplate, or wall plate. Does anyone know of an online hardware store that carries such a two hole "keyhole" type mount for wall mounting a telephone? I've found single keyhole mounts, but would prefer the type that's specifically made for telephones if they're available. TIA. Dan Carlson Wetmore CO One such plate with filter was in the kit that came with my dsl kit from the phone company, ask around I can't imagine many folks use them. |
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