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Title: Payphone - CL Score
Post by: HaRuMaN on June 27, 2010, 07:55:40 pm
Got this payphone off craigslist today.  Set up for home use already, I didn't have to do anything but plug it in!   :cheers:

(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=149339;image)

Best part was the price.  $65...  it's going in my gameroom.
Title: Re: Payphone - CL Score
Post by: wp34 on June 27, 2010, 09:51:02 pm
Got this payphone off craigslist today.  Set up for home use already, I didn't have to do anything but plug it in!   :cheers:

(http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=103207.0;attach=149339;image)

Best part was the price.  $65...  it's going in my gameroom.

That is pretty sweet.  Looks like it is in good condition as well.  Does the coin mech work at all or do you get dial tone just by lifting the receiver? 

Reminds me of that old Brady Bunch episode where Mike made everyone use a payphone.   ;D
Title: Re: Payphone - CL Score
Post by: HaRuMaN on June 27, 2010, 09:56:31 pm
Coin mech doesn't do anything, you just lift the receiver.  The ringer works, too.
Title: Re: Payphone - CL Score
Post by: DaOld Man on June 27, 2010, 10:22:30 pm
Sweet find!
Title: Re: Payphone - CL Score
Post by: Ginsu Victim on June 28, 2010, 08:34:15 am
That's so awesome. A payphone that won't give you a disease....brilliant!
Title: Re: Payphone - CL Score
Post by: HaRuMaN on June 28, 2010, 09:35:01 am
Yup.  Now I just have to wire my house so that I can get my Vonage signal though the phone jacks, and I'll be set.  I found a couple of tutorials online, seems pretty straightforward.   :cheers:

I hooked up directly to the Vonage box to test, and had my wife call the home phone, it works perfect...  the ringer is still there, and the sound is nice and clear. 
Title: Re: Payphone - CL Score
Post by: Ed_McCarron on June 28, 2010, 02:47:07 pm
That's so awesome. A payphone that won't give you a disease....brilliant!

Yeah, once you get rid of all the telephone sanitizers, its all downhill.