Cleaning and Polishing Old Bakelite Telephones |
I believe the best way to clean Bakelite and plastic Telephones is as follows:
Carefully dismantle the Bakelite telephones as much as possible. Then
Clean the Bakelite with a good non abrasive c...
Posted by Karen on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 03:50:00 PST |
Converting a 332 Bakelite Telephone |
British 332 Telephone conversion. If you are trying to convert a British 332 bakelite telephone to work on the BT plug system please follow these instructions: Opening the telephone by removing the...
Posted by Karen on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:24:00 PST |
Updating a British 300 series telephone |
A few people have asked me how to relace the old carbon granule microphones/transmitters on old 200/300 series bakelite telephones with the more modern 21a type, so I have included instructions below ...
Posted by Karen on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:19:00 PST |
Converting Bakelite Telephones |
If you have any old British telephone (pre 1989) and convert it to the new UK phone system it will NOT be officially compatible (as a modern phone would be).
However some old antique ...
Posted by Karen on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 02:12:00 PST |
Old Phones |
Still getting the hang of this but I have been looking at my friends new website today all about Rockingham Pottery. He is using the same website provider as my British Antique Telephone site. Ma...
Posted by Karen on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 03:48:00 PST |
Second Blog |
This is my second blog and a friend has asked me to put in a link to his blog on Retro Antiques. So I hope this works. ...
Posted by Karen on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:25:00 PST |
My first Blog |
This is my first blog I am trying to get to grips with this whole thing. I am also trying to create a website for my hobby which is collecting British antique telephones (hence the picture) and Rockin...
Posted by Karen on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:09:00 PST |
