Rotary Telephone take apart (Dial center removal)

Here I've made a video of me taking apart two rotary dial telephones. They are both ITT 500 sets. I give a discription on how to take the dial center off and other tips and parts description.

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Howto & Style

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• Rotary
• telephone
• phone
• telecommunication
• ITT
• ATT
• 500
• Western
• Northern
• Electric
• gears
• take
• apart
• dissamble
• tear
• down
• hydrolisk1792

[carly1535]

I could use some help...

I found a properly working ivory version of this phone at my grandparent's house that my mom was trying to throw away. Being the vintage lover I am, I decided to keep it. I'm only 16 and don't know how to pop off the centre from experience, so i was looking online for instructions. I believe I did what you said to do in the video, but for some reason the rotary dial didn't pop off.

My question is, why won't the centre pop off?

[hydrolisk1792]

@carly1535 Some times it is a pain in the ass to get the dial off. Try a few more times and if no aval, look under the dial to look for the tab. Find the tab and bend it down manually with a percision flathead screwdriver, don't worry, if done correctly, you wont jack up the phone in any way. It is good to see the younger generation into vintage telephones. I'm 23 and I use a candlestick telephone from the 1930's. I have a video of it too :)

[RetroVintageItems27]

Hi,

Also could you do a video of that multiline phone and the 2500??? Do you use all of the 4 or 5 lines, or just 1.

RetroVintageItems27

[hydrolisk1792]

@RetroVintageItems27 I do use 3 of the lines. I not going to promise anything, but I will try to upload a vid of the telephones. It is a bit hard to get vids up at the moment because I'm running and managing an event company at the moment.

[RetroVintageItems27]

@hydrolisk1792

Ok yah, very nice phone I am bidding on a plastic rotary dial with like 5 lines but I only have one. For your 3 lines did you put on a new connector or can you keep your old one?

RetroVintageItems27

[hydrolisk1792]

@RetroVintageItems27 When the telephone was sent to me, someone had a cut pig tail end to the connector to it so I was able to keep the old connector and just build a wiring harness out of it to use on modern RJ11 lines :)

[hydrolisk1792]

@RetroVintageItems27 I'm guessing that you mean the nmber at the top of the dial card. It is 702, this set was in Las Vegas, and it is kept locally, because I live in Las Vegas :)

[RetroVintageItems27]

Hi,

On the white telephone is that 763? Too pixilated...

RetroVintageItems27

[hydrolisk1792]

@silntdoogood Won't buffer? It is buffering for me right now.  Try again later.

[hydrolisk1792]

@nathanallan1 LOL, yeah, the dials are a bit tricky to take off of these sets because of that cryptic pin :) It is fun to take them apart and clean them up / repair them, I enjoy it.