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12th Dec 2016, 12:11 am | #1 |
Retired Dormant Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Hertfordshire, UK.
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706L accessories switch
I have a 61 706L with an off on switch, I have had them on other phones and use then as a mute switch mainly.
This one as per normal has had all the wires cut to the switch and has had a basic rewire. But strapped to the switch looks to be a bulb, small and thin. If it is a bulb, what would be the point of it, as I wouldn't have thought it could be seen though the phone. |
12th Dec 2016, 2:38 am | #2 |
Tetrode
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Bromley, London, UK.
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Re: 706L accessories switch
Not by any chance a very thin clear glass bulb? Could be an early thermistor to stop bell tinkle on party lines, common on the black 312 i think bakelite phones but usually by the 706's the thermistors were a black plastic blob with a couple of black leads. Other than that could be a non standard mod where someone else has bodged the phone to do something else e.g. house to shed set up?
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12th Dec 2016, 3:18 pm | #3 |
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Re: 706L accessories switch
Thermistor you say, I looked it up and found, Shared-Service Adaptor, used on the 706.
Which look very much like what it is. Thanks. |
12th Dec 2016, 5:36 pm | #4 |
Tetrode
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Bromley, London, UK.
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Re: 706L accessories switch
Yep thats a thermistor, early style! Must have come from a set up where the phone was on a party line!
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