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"Dial" is the word... :P

It's like dialling on a rotary phone, only you're pressing the buttons, not turning the fingerwheel...

Plus I've had a couple of those cheap chinese phones, they're pathetic, wouldn't bother with them, especially as you can buy the real thing cheaper than the knockoffs... :P
 
Ah yes, dial... How silly of me.

I wasn't going to buy one anyway, I'm more than happy with my Binatone Avon 300, even if I can't make sense of the memory function, or get it to work...
 
Well, I've got a Wild and Wolf TRIM phone that I've owned for nearly 2 years. I bought it for a reminiscent tribute phone to my late Dad who loved the originals. Infact when I was growing up, we had three originals in the home - two dark blue ones and a horrible plastic-covered dark green one. The whole design really appealed to me and it still does. I've had no problem with the phone. It made well be Chinese made but it's good to see it's available again as the original one just did what it is supposed to do.

I can't see how it is possible to get the original ones though unless you seek out the rare original push button types - surely with the digital phone lines, pulse dialling isn't available anymore?
 
Made in China

What most people do not realise is that made in china does not always  mean cheap junk.


Yes there are factory's that do turn out rubbish but there are other ones that don't.


 


It totally depends on what the odering company wants. There is a company called KingClean in china, they build many vacuums for many different company's. what is hard. 


 


Im not going to mention names but two competing company's medium budget vacuums come out of this factory, the one you would be hard pressed to find were it was manufactured, the plastic is good quality, it feels strong, the hose has a silcone feel to it nicely finished and good quality machine. The other machine is terrible , hard brittle plastic , rough edges, the hose is made from such poor quality plastic that if you bend it far enough it splits, nothing fits together properly every thing feels loose. yet these two machines are made in the same factory. Its what the designers and more so accountants want 
 
I said before that I thought there was nothing to stop China making good quality products if that was what the company purchasing them asked for, but no, others knew best. Thank you Gary for writing this.
 
"pulse dialling isn't available anymore? "

It certainly is available, BT support it still, and most cable suppliers do too, and you can get VOIP adaptors that support pulse dial phones too...

The only issue is these days the hardware at the exchanges is all digital, so they're very exacting as to what rate the phones pulse at, and they must be around 10 pulses per second (pps), with some tolerance either way, so if the dial isn't properly looked after and adjusted, it'll not dial, my GPO 746 needs it's dial adjusting cos it's slightly out of the 10pps rate, and will not break dialtone, but all my other phones that I've used on the line happily dial... :)

The fun thing about the original Trimphones though is they had a lovely glow in the dark dial, and the glowing was provided by a nice radioactive source, a tube of Tritium behind the dial, though these days the stuff has past it's best and doesn't glow, it still poses a radiation hazard, and can only be disposed of in some specialist locations... :S

Later models (both rotary and pushbutton) lacked the glowing part due to the concerns about health related to the radioactivity, as it was during a time when people feared anything to do with radiation (despite the fact they were happy to have radiation in the form of TV & radio signals!!), so they dropped the Tritium to keep people happy...

Some people remove the tritium tube when they restore them,and either leave the phone as-is, or they paint the back of the dial with modern glow in the dark paints, restoring the glow, but without the dose of radiation every time you dialled... :P

Personally I'm not keen on the Trimphone design, or the chirping tone-ringer, I prefer my bells and big weighty phones... :P
 
"You can still tap out a number using the button under t

And I have done in the past... :P

It's a bit of a faff though cos get it wrong and you have to start again... :&#92
 
"Yes but one has to consider the reasons why it was orig

Yep, it was done cos Strowger's funeral home was losing business cos his opposition's wife worked in the local telephone exchange as an operator and was passing the business over to him, so Strowger came up with the automatic exchange to cut out the operator... :)

Must have taken one heck of a commercial vac to clean telephone exchanges though with all those selector banks shedding metal fragments as they wore out... :P

(See? I got it back on topic!!!)
 
No, I didn't mean that. I mean the reason why anyone would want to 'tap' out a number on the top of a phone instead of using the dial on the front of it. It was to by-pass the lock on a telephone which they should never have been using in the first place.
 
Hmm...

"6 - Pile height adjustment"

Where?? :S

That said, the photograph of a Victor there shows the 171 which is flatter it seems (and could have height adjustment), but the drawing is right for a 271, apart from the height adjustment, cos it has fixed axles... :&#92
 
6 Pile adjustment!? Wow, you're spoilt for choice there, ha ha!

I was happy today finding out I had 4 Pile adjustment in my Ranger.
 
"6 Pile adjustment!? Wow, you're spoilt for choice t

Erm, not quite, it's "Item number 6 - Pile height adjustment"... :P
 
"Erm, not quite, it's "Item number 6 - Pile height adjustment"... :P" Ha ha ha ha ha! Sorry, I got that a bit wrong! Ha ha.
 
jamie...

the two Columbus uprights at the bottom? no they're regular uprights, essentially the same as the Electrolux c12 style models from about the same time
 
I think the key word in all of that is 'contract'. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the use of those domestic cleaners was strictly limited to certain terms and conditions. It does state they are domestic and household machines, available as part of the contract. I may be wrong, but those booklets look like the types available to those maintaining schools and such places.
 
Those vorwerks are amongst the most robust machines I have ever seen, we sell the new versions. customers often bring in those old et30 vk117's in for repair more than 30 years old still working fine just need a new belt. 
 
well, i think up until the arrival of the Sebo 350 it was one of the only real lightweight commercial machines, they sold them through cleaning suppliers like Jeyes Hygiene, Reckitt & Coleman and Holloway & sons in this country with their own badging
 
Dialling with the cradle switch

I've done that too. Say you're dialling the speaking clock on 123. Tap the cradle switch once quickly, pause for a second, tap twice quickly, pause, tap thrice.

My mum and my gran once had a unique occurrence. They both picked up their phones at exactly the same time and got straight through to each other - without dialling or tapping the cradle. It would have been in the early 1980s.
 
"I've done that too. Say you're dialling the speaking clock on 123. Tap the cradle switch once quickly, pause for a second, tap twice quickly, pause, tap thrice." It's funny you should say that, because I tried that today but ended up getting through to the emergency services! How did that happen ?
 

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