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We've
had several visitors to the web site ask how to remove the finger-wheel on a
rotary dial telephone they just bought on eBay, thrift store, flea market,
garage sale, etc. Well, I hope to provide some help in this area of
telephone collecting/restoration with a little help from my friends in the two
clubs I belong to. Even though touch-tone telephones became available in
the mid 1960's, rotary dial phones were still in common use in the 1980's and
some die-hards are still using rotary dial phones (like us collectors!) in the
second millennium!
The irony of rotary verses
touch-tone is that rotary dials produced DIGITAL data that was used by the
equipment in the central office whereas today's modern touch-tone dials
produce ANALOG signals. All the hype about us being in the digital age
is not true of our touch-tone phones - until we get to the central office
where the tones are converted to digital format. So when someone asks
you why you have an old-fashioned rotary phone, simply tell them that it's
really very modern since it's dial is digital and not analog! Who would
be caught dead with an old analog touch-tone dial when they could have a
"modern" digital dial! :-)
