Connecting an old phone...
 

Just about to finish doing up the kitchen in the house, and sorting out the finishing touches etc...

When we moved in there was an old phone on the wall (Rotating dialling, lift up mouth peice/reciver, big bells inside when it rings... You get the picture?) as we where getting NTL and this was connected to a BT line I disconnected the wire inside and took it off the wall, so we could decorate. Now we have finished the room, the other half has decide she would like the phone back on the wall, and would like it to work!!! Now as I paid no attention to where the wires went, I am at a loss for putting it back up, but I am hoping with your help, I can wire this back onto a conventional phone plug, to plug into the wall socket?

Does anyone know what coloured wires I need to connect to where????

It's most likely a pulse dial phone as opposed to tone and eventhough you can still use them on BT networks (IME anyway) I'm not sure if pulse will work on the NTL telecom system even if it were wired up to a new plug. The REN rating may also be a negative factor even if it did work.

this is wot u want..........? I doubt your old phone will work on NTL's n'work

www.telephonesuk.co.uk/wiring_info.htm

alan

That diagram is for doing sockets.

IIRC, pins 2 and 5 on a BT socket are for the voice signal and can be either way around, pin 3 is for powering the ringer. (though the instruction to ring may still come on pins 2 and 3)

I have no idea if the old phones still use this standard, but hope this helps.
Then you have the pule dialing issue, best way to test for this is to use yourPCs modem (if you have one) and set that to pulse dial and see if it still works.

Cheers, we have an NTL engineer coming out on the 21st, so will run it past him then. Having looked at a few websites I think the phone may well be valuable, so if it does not work then I think we will be selling it!!!!!

That's correct as far as I know :)

I asked someone more knowledgeable about these things.
Exactly how old is this phone, the description is a little vague, is it the kind with a base unit and a handset on a wire, not too dissimilar to modern office desk phones, or is it the kind where the mouthpiece is a separate part (as seen in Dastardly & Muttley cartoons)
So long as it's not stupidly old, it should work apart from (maybe) the pulse dialling issue, so test that with a modem please.
You just need to put a BT plug on the end, and be aware that it's likely to have a REN of 4 so forget using an answerphone unless you buy a REN extender.