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- Amy M.
- San Francisco, CA
- 49 friends
- 111 reviews
Any tips on where I can take my rotary phone to get repaired? I have searched on Yelp and Google with no luck.
Many Thanks.6/19/2010 -
- Jonathan M.
- Sacramento, CA
- 279 friends
- 345 reviews
- Elite ’24
Try 1978.
6/19/2010 -
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- Carolyn T.
- Berkeley, CA
- 79 friends
- 47 reviews
lol @ Dial
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I would try any small appliance repair place. There should be some that'd fix something like that.
What's wrong with it?6/19/2010 -
- Uncle Fishbits Aeneas X.
- Belvedere Tiburon, CA
- 442 friends
- 1715 reviews
I still use a rotary.
a) repair is easy, and you can likely do it yourself.
b) buy a new one off ebay.
they are a bit pricey for a brand new out the box one, but it's worth it. There's nothing like talking on a receiver like that. Using google voice, I never use it to dial.... it just rings me with that familiar sound of my youth.6/19/2010 -
- Uncle Fishbits Aeneas X.
- Belvedere Tiburon, CA
- 442 friends
- 1715 reviews
I really do still use a rotary phone.
6/21/2010 -
- Klik W.
- San Francisco, CA
- 28 friends
- 43 reviews
Literally you can just tap on the hangup part of the phone really quickly to dial, I'm not even joking that used to be a party trick of mine back in the days when people had landlines with receivers that would actually hang up. You could even look more old-timey by doing it, shout something like Hey Marie! Connect me with Murray Hill 7 four nine four nine after you do it. You wanna call 555 1212 just tap the phone five times, wait a second, repeat twice, then tap the hang up thing once, wait, twice, wait, once, wait, and twice kapow your party's phone is ringing.
6/21/2010 -
- Uncle Fishbits Aeneas X.
- Belvedere Tiburon, CA
- 442 friends
- 1715 reviews
That's cool klik.
I do like dialing the thing though. A lot. It's so official. And your mood is intoned in the aggressiveness of the dial.
Like... gentle, sweet - "I am calling wifey"
hard, rough - "I'm a gonna give this guy a piece of my mind"6/24/2010 -
- Jerry L.
- Westlake, TX
- 19 friends
- 37 reviews
Dump the POS. You're gonna to get carpal tunnel with that thing!
6/24/2010 -
- Amy M.
- San Francisco, CA
- 49 friends
- 111 reviews
i dropped it and i have the connection cuts out now and then.
7/2/2010 -
- Jennifer O.
- San Francisco, CA
- 764 friends
- 1252 reviews
- Elite ’24
Time for a new phone! Maybe you can use your old one as a display piece? Or maybe someone would want to buy it on eBay.
7/2/2010 -
- .Hazel T.
- San Francisco, CA
- 123 friends
- 54 reviews
Try a general electronics or a vacuum repair store.
OR! Disconnect it, take a look at the way the wires wrap around the terminals on the inside of the screw-off ear and mouthpiece(s). Those wires have probably lost good connections with their terminals and may have gotten oxidized over time. One at a time, disconnect the worst one by unscrewing the screw(s) and removing the wire(s). Do this one at a time, don't disconnect them all at once, I cannot stress this enough!
Clean them off if desired, but definitely rewrap wind them around each other and then back around their respective terminals making sure none of the wire ends drift out from under your screw. And then tighten the screw. Repeat. Test.7/2/2010
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