Growing up my mother was really into using the phone. Our landline was always connected to someone and my mother chattering. My mom got a fancy white dial pad based wall mounted phone and an extra long phone cord so she could talk on it access the kitchen.
I don’t think we had a rotary but my grandmother did have a light green rotary in the basement for a period
ours was black
Classy.
I drew a design for a fixed axle aluminum yoyo as a joke, once.
I’m still waiting on the mk1 only pans YoYo .
Ours was also black. Edit… well is black.
Where is it? Asking for a friend That friend is me
Rethinking this now??? LOL
Our Rotary phone was Black.
I could design an AL Dead 'Orse. That would ensure people could get their hands on one.
This could be acceptable.
I mean a fixed axle AL Dead 'Orse.
Metal 'Orse sounds like a sweet rock band name!
Like a 3 piece with wood axle and metal halves, glued together with Loctite?
Posting this from my Mum’s house where this is on the wall
The Dead 'Orse is an Amazing Yoyo.
I am Curious about an Iron 'Orse! Could be a challenge… may require pads?
My parents house has/had the same thing! It was always super useful during blackouts because it didn’t require power like the wireless phones did with their base unit. Still functions!
Contract a shop with a Swiss lathe. Have them turn a rod to a specified axle diameter and then thread both ends at a smaller diameter. Use the shoulders where the threads meet the middle to set your gap.
You’ll need to see what they might charge for a whole bunch of them because a small quantity won’t be cheap. I could cut the things pretty easy as a prototype kind of thing, but it would NOT be cost effective for production because I wouldn’t be able to run them quickly enough.
THIS…. Is a very cool old telephone. As a career telephone man I am interested in all things telephone related.
Is it functional? Even if it takes calls in, I don’t see how you’d dial out
