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Posted by Daniel Carlson on October 19, 2009, 2:34 am
I have an antique wall phone which has been modified to work with
today's modular jacks. Problem is, the phone lacks the mounting
hardware on the back which slides over the two slightly protruding screw
heads which are found on a standard telephone switchplate, or wall
plate. Does anyone know of an online hardware store that carries such a
two hole "keyhole" type mount for wall mounting a telephone? I've found
single keyhole mounts, but would prefer the type that's specifically
made for telephones if they're available.
TIA.
Dan Carlson
Wetmore CO
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Posted by beecrofter on October 19, 2009, 1:01 pm
wrote:
> I have an antique wall phone which has been modified to work with
> today's modular jacks. =A0Problem is, the phone lacks the mounting
> hardware on the back which slides over the two slightly protruding screw
> heads which are found on a standard telephone switchplate, or wall
> plate. =A0Does anyone know of an online hardware store that carries such =
a
> two hole "keyhole" type mount for wall mounting a telephone? =A0I've foun=
d
> single keyhole mounts, but would prefer the type that's specifically
> made for telephones if they're available.
> TIA.
> Dan Carlson
> Wetmore =A0CO
One such plate with filter was in the kit that came with my dsl kit
from the phone company, ask around I can't imagine many folks use them.
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Posted by hr(bob) hofmann@att.net on October 19, 2009, 3:58 pm
> wrote:
> > I have an antique wall phone which has been modified to work with
> > today's modular jacks. =A0Problem is, the phone lacks the mounting
> > hardware on the back which slides over the two slightly protruding scre=
w
> > heads which are found on a standard telephone switchplate, or wall
> > plate. =A0Does anyone know of an online hardware store that carries suc=
h a
> > two hole "keyhole" type mount for wall mounting a telephone? =A0I've fo=
und
> > single keyhole mounts, but would prefer the type that's specifically
> > made for telephones if they're available.
> > TIA.
> > Dan Carlson
> > Wetmore =A0CO
> One such plate with filter was in the kit that came with my dsl kit
> from the phone company, ask around I can't imagine many folks use them.
Can't you just put two scres in place on the wall with the correct
spacing and then slide the wall phone down on the two screws? IIRC,
the spacing is 4" between the two screws.
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Posted by Daniel Carlson on October 19, 2009, 5:56 pm
hr(bob) hofmann@att.net wrote:
>> wrote:
>>> I have an antique wall phone which has been modified to work with
>>> today's modular jacks. Problem is, the phone lacks the mounting
>>> hardware on the back which slides over the two slightly protruding screw
>>> heads which are found on a standard telephone switchplate, or wall
>>> plate. Does anyone know of an online hardware store that carries such a
>>> two hole "keyhole" type mount for wall mounting a telephone? I've found
>>> single keyhole mounts, but would prefer the type that's specifically
>>> made for telephones if they're available.
>>> TIA.
>>> Dan Carlson
>>> Wetmore CO
>> One such plate with filter was in the kit that came with my dsl kit
>> from the phone company, ask around I can't imagine many folks use them.
>
> Can't you just put two scres in place on the wall with the correct
> spacing and then slide the wall phone down on the two screws? IIRC,
> the spacing is 4" between the two screws.
Thanks for the response.
The hardware on the wall is already in place. What I need is the
hardware that goes on the phone. I could use two separate keyhole
mounts, but I'd prefer to find a single plate with two keyholes in it.
I thought maybe someone manufactures one specifically for this purpose.
Dan
Dan
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Posted by aemeijers on October 19, 2009, 6:49 pm
Daniel Carlson wrote:
>
>
> hr(bob) hofmann@att.net wrote:
>>> wrote:
>>>> I have an antique wall phone which has been modified to work with
>>>> today's modular jacks. Problem is, the phone lacks the mounting
>>>> hardware on the back which slides over the two slightly protruding
>>>> screw
>>>> heads which are found on a standard telephone switchplate, or wall
>>>> plate. Does anyone know of an online hardware store that carries
>>>> such a
>>>> two hole "keyhole" type mount for wall mounting a telephone? I've
>>>> found
>>>> single keyhole mounts, but would prefer the type that's specifically
>>>> made for telephones if they're available.
>>>> TIA.
>>>> Dan Carlson
>>>> Wetmore CO
>>> One such plate with filter was in the kit that came with my dsl kit
>>> from the phone company, ask around I can't imagine many folks use them.
>> Can't you just put two scres in place on the wall with the correct
>> spacing and then slide the wall phone down on the two screws? IIRC,
>> the spacing is 4" between the two screws.
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> The hardware on the wall is already in place. What I need is the
> hardware that goes on the phone. I could use two separate keyhole
> mounts, but I'd prefer to find a single plate with two keyholes in it. I
> thought maybe someone manufactures one specifically for this purpose.
>
> Dan
>
> Dan
Ma Bell had converter plates for the old rotary wall phones- is this
what we are talking about? Made the phone stick out from the wall and
was usually wobbly to boot.
Personally, I would take apart the wall jack, and just hard mount the
phone directly to wall with the original screw holes on the back plate.
Find some way to go from the red and green (or the blue/white and
white/blue wires, if modern wire) wires in the wall to L1 and L2 in the
phone. You can even float a small modular jack in the wall if you want
to stay modular. Most old wall phones, the shell pops right off.
Post a picture of the jack, and the front and back of the phone, and put
a link back here. A picture is worth lots of words, etc.
--
aem sends...
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> today's modular jacks. =A0Problem is, the phone lacks the mounting
> hardware on the back which slides over the two slightly protruding screw
> heads which are found on a standard telephone switchplate, or wall
> plate. =A0Does anyone know of an online hardware store that carries such =