I purchased this antique crank telephone for the educational traveling trunks I’m making at work (they are nearly finished!).
I bought it because it has all of its guts. But it didn’t crank. 🙁 I don’t need it to be fulling working, but I do want the crank to crank.
After consulting several decades-old forum posts and a 40 year old manual, I restored the phone a bit this past Monday. I cleaned it and lubed it, so now the crank cranks! The little shelf (for writing I guess?) broke not long after I received it, so I glued it back on with Gorilla wood glue.
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