This is my favorite restoration on TH-cam! It is not something fancy, just a normal appliance that was part of our everyday life in the olden days. The reason I like it is because these normal appliances are what remind us of our everyday life in those days. I will show this video to my son and tell him these were the old telephones. He will be amazed. He almost lives inside of his mobile phone. He thinks reality is inside of his real phone. Maybe your video can help me convince him that real life is outside. Outside where you can touch it. A mobile telephone is not the center of the world. In olden days it was just another appliance in the house. It did not rule our life. If you want to talk to your friend you didn't text him, you got on your bike and and used your muscles to peddle to his house to see him in real life. I like those days better. Thank you for restoring something that some restoration people may have decided not to because it was not fancy. And of course your work is fabulous as usual. Sincerely, Leo
Very interesting and unique video! Most people would have thrown that phone back into the trash and walked away, but not you! Very nice and painstaking restoration (I would have cleaned all of the pieces first, but that is personal preference). The only issue I can see is that no one who sees the telephone now will be able to tell how bad it used to be! Great job! Keep on posting!
The filler idea was pretty neat. You could also try baking soda with the CA glue. It makes the CA “kick” instantly, and creates a very hard filler. Maybe dab a little CA, sprinkle baking soda, repeat - to build up around cracks or broken areas, then sand it down to proper contour.
I remember when my grandmother knocked her phone off onto the floor and it broke just like that one. She rented it from the phone company so they just picked up the old one and brought her a new one. No one even mentioned fixing it. Great video.
Ya, it's weird. Phones didn't ever change that much, except for color maybe but people rented them. Now, they change every six months and people buy them. Go figure.
Wow this is incredible. I've never seen a phone so badly damaged. It makes me think, for a phone that's not worth too much, is it worth all the hard work and effort?. I don't think anyone else would go to such an effort, maybe I'm wrong. But when you look at the end result. I wish they explained what they were using and how to get that finish, But It was well worth watching. Well done.
To me, it's totally worth the effort! I restore things myself(nothing this impressive) and it's so rewarding returning junk to like-new. Always worth doing!
Heck, I am so old I remembering having a party line...and to you young folk who are thinking that is a dial up meet and greet, it isn't. A party line was phone service you would share with another household. The phone would have two types of rings, one for each home. When phone service was first brought from the east coast to the breadbasket the population wasn't enough to warrant having that much service. After WWII, when the men and women of America's hero forces came home, the boom started anew for service requirements. Blessings to all who have sat and watched a phone on a long lonely night, wishing it would ring with good news.
Very good job on restoring the plastic body. Important to know how to save plastic parts when there are no good replacements to be found. You might consider an airbrush to do delicate painting. It gives you much more control than the rattle can does. Plus you can color match your paint to the original color.
Mike Nunyabizness applying primer first lets you more easily see where you need filler - especially on a surface that has all these textures and colors.
its standard practice to apply a layer of primer, or even spray paint, to highlight any areas that may need filling before the final layer of primer and paint. As stated above it makes it an easier job. Also, why clean the parts before glueing when its going to have to be cleaned again? That turns one job into two jobs, again, making the task harder.
Very good restoration. My father works in telecom Argentina, and he has a lot of parts of this ancient telephones. When I was child i played with the parts. Excelent video
At my family home when I was growing up we had the exact same phone I haven't seen another one since then you did a amazing job. I bet if you got the kids today to see one they wouldn't have a clue what it was
to your credit you don't shy away from the nasty ones not to berate other restorations where they deal with rust, accumulated crud and some dents you take on a bombed out hulk of a phone and turn it into something they wished they had in 1970 you did the right thing to clean the casing when it was fully assembled easier to clean up one large piece rather than fiddling around with half a dozen small pieces
Thanks for the video. I've got the same telephone model as yours when I was searching at my relatives house. It was the japanese telephone NEC model 650A1 (yours was NEC 600 series?). I'll try to restore with your helo of your vid.
More than a restoration - a resurrection. I'd stripped it of useful parts and binned the rest. Strange choice of filler - I'd have used car body stuff. Righteous work my man, truly righteous.
Nice job. If I have dirty cords on a phone restoration, I put them in a sock, tie the top with string and put in with the rest of the laundry. Works a treat.
In terms of the most damaged resto piece to restore I've seen anyone start with, the phone is f'n ridiculous! I have seen and subbed to other channels that do great work but they have a piece that's got all the pieces, is covered with rust but I have never seen anyone pull off something so damaged. I'm investing some time into your channel and I can see a sub! Only 75k subs? I don't think it will take long for the 100k mark! Great work!
From japan. This rotary phone must be made by Dendenkosya, today`s NTT. NTT is one of the most biggest telephone service company in japan. And my family still using this kind of telephone! I think that this model is 600-A2.
Wow. Goo-gone, Goof-Off, Bestine or Acetone would be products that'd recommend for all the sticky tape--before you do your sawdust and epoxy reconstruction!
You have to be very careful using Acetone around some plastics so as not to mar the surface. I've found lighter fluid (naphtha) to be a good remover for old adhesive. You can buy a quart at the hardware store for about the same price as a small can at the drug store. Always transfer flammable liquids to small containers for use at the bench... better to have a small fire a fire extinguisher can deal with rather than a great big one.
@@aceroadholder2185 As a "girl", we used to use classic hairsprays (like Aquanaut) to get both inks and dye rub-off and sticky stuff like school glues (pre-cyanoacrylate years and epoxy was untouchable) off our vinyl shoes and jackets as well as crap I used to somehow get on my sewing machine housing. I don't know which "miracle" plastic that phone was made from--any info about that?
Nice job! Looks great! Ive seen others restore yellowed plastics with hydrogen peroxide and the sun. That might work on the hang up switches and handset cord. Cheers!
The phone networks at least where I'm from were always upgraded through stages, so they had to be sure upgrades were backwards compatible. Although some places have digital phones connected to the digital lines directly, most places around here have analog or analog-compatible phones plugged into modems plugged into the digital network (the modems are often also the internet routers of the house in question). It's not uncommon for phone signals to go through multiple modulation and demodulation stages from end to end.
i work for canadian telecom company, for analog phones with pulse dial like this one in the video there is a little converter box who does all the magic, but downside is that you wont be able to use some services that when you call it will tell you: for english press 1, for french press 2, if you dial it with pulse it wont work properly, and also sometimes you need to press * or #, some converter boxes actually have those buttons separately so you can still use rotary dial
Ok great work i am never doing something like this but please please take in considerarion these little suggestion 1) why you don't clean and refurbish also the rubber feet of the item? 2) why you don't polish also the inside of the phone case? Why you change the color of soe pieces of the phones? Thanls
Ich bin erlich gesagt sprachlos das du selbst kabel mit wasser gereinigt hast.Auch die Elektronischen sachen im inneren hast du mit wasser gereinigt.Trozallen bin ich vom endergebnis wirklich begeistert.Mich würde nur A interessieren ob das Telefon Funktioniert und B ist das ein Hun oder Han der im Hintergrund kräht?Trotzdem klasse video und ich liebe deine videos 👍👍👍👍
При современных технологиях корпус телефона проще распечатать на 3D принтере :))) .... но тебе отдельный респект за то что ты его сложидл изоригинальных кусочков. И отдельный респект за демонстрацию работы :))) ....
Great job, however you failed to mention which materials you used. I mean glue, filler... etc. I liked the playing card technique. I will try it sometime.
Always nice to see people who restore and save old nostalgic things ☎️👍
Normaly i don't like when people paint plastic, but damn you did a great job.
You restored something so badly broken, nearly unrestorable. Great job!
This guy is full of wonders and surprises
Job has nothing on you! Amazing skills and drive...
You are probably the god of Renovation!!!
I've no words to praise you...
God bless you!
Great work, those phones were built like tanks.👌🏾😸
This is my favorite restoration on TH-cam! It is not something fancy, just a normal appliance that was part of our everyday life in the olden days.
The reason I like it is because these normal appliances are what remind us of our everyday life in those days.
I will show this video to my son and tell him these were the old telephones. He will be amazed. He almost lives inside of his mobile phone. He thinks reality is inside of his real phone. Maybe your video can help me convince him that real life is outside. Outside where you can touch it. A mobile telephone is not the center of the world. In olden days it was just another appliance in the house. It did not rule our life. If you want to talk to your friend you didn't text him, you got on your bike and and used your muscles to peddle to his house to see him in real life. I like those days better.
Thank you for restoring something that some restoration people may have decided not to because it was not fancy. And of course your work is fabulous as usual.
Sincerely,
Leo
This is satisfying to watch. Brought back childhood memories how we repaired the set those days !
Great restoration work ! Keep it up !
I would never have guessed you could have made it look half as good as you did. That is a 100% success as a working finished product. Amazing! Thanks
That was amazing. You took an item that was partially destroyed and bought it back to great condition. A wonderful restoration job.
BRILLIANT! Would love to have a few of my old telephones back.
So interesting how you repair the telephone case
Very interesting and unique video! Most people would have thrown that phone back into the trash and walked away, but not you! Very nice and painstaking restoration (I would have cleaned all of the pieces first, but that is personal preference). The only issue I can see is that no one who sees the telephone now will be able to tell how bad it used to be! Great job! Keep on posting!
The filler idea was pretty neat. You could also try baking soda with the CA glue. It makes the CA “kick” instantly, and creates a very hard filler. Maybe dab a little CA, sprinkle baking soda, repeat - to build up around cracks or broken areas, then sand it down to proper contour.
I remember when my grandmother knocked her phone off onto the floor and it broke just like that one. She rented it from the phone company so they just picked up the old one and brought her a new one. No one even mentioned fixing it. Great video.
They still could've replaced the shell and gave it to the next customer.
@@NostaIgiaJunkie Probably did, back in the day phones were expensive.
Back then you weren’t allowed to own your phone. Everyone rented. Crazy?!
Ya, it's weird. Phones didn't ever change that much, except for color maybe but people rented them. Now, they change every six months and people buy them. Go figure.
Wow this is incredible. I've never seen a phone so badly damaged. It makes me think, for a phone that's not worth too much, is it worth all the hard work and effort?. I don't think anyone else would go to such an effort, maybe I'm wrong. But when you look at the end result. I wish they explained what they were using and how to get that finish, But It was well worth watching. Well done.
To me, it's totally worth the effort! I restore things myself(nothing this impressive) and it's so rewarding returning junk to like-new. Always worth doing!
Nothing more beautiful than the classics , incredible job
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻good job 👏👏👏
Heck, I am so old I remembering having a party line...and to you young folk who are thinking that is a dial up meet and greet, it isn't. A party line was phone service you would share with another household. The phone would have two types of rings, one for each home. When phone service was first brought from the east coast to the breadbasket the population wasn't enough to warrant having that much service. After WWII, when the men and women of America's hero forces came home, the boom started anew for service requirements.
Blessings to all who have sat and watched a phone on a long lonely night, wishing it would ring with good news.
Great work: it was so satisfying slamming down one of those receivers when you were annoyed with someone!
Maybe a tornado if the owner was in America
That's probably what happened 😂
How long did it take for the paint to dry?
Looks 100 times better than before
Very good job on restoring the plastic body. Important to know how to save plastic parts when there are no good replacements to be found.
You might consider an airbrush to do delicate painting. It gives you much more control than the rattle can does. Plus you can color match your paint to the original color.
Really great job
Very nice work
Absolutely great restoration. Amazing.
I like the two colours.
I’m impressed. Very good job!
Superb workmanship well done 👏
Excellent restoration love to see his old rotary phones be brought back to life
I’m pretty sure you can’t use is for calling anymore. So I don’t think it really is brought back to life.
Hi, I would have liked it more if you had cleaned all the pieces of the phone before gluing them.
Mike Nunyabizness applying primer first lets you more easily see where you need filler - especially on a surface that has all these textures and colors.
Ikr
its standard practice to apply a layer of primer, or even spray paint, to highlight any areas that may need filling before the final layer of primer and paint. As stated above it makes it an easier job. Also, why clean the parts before glueing when its going to have to be cleaned again? That turns one job into two jobs, again, making the task harder.
He lost me there
From wrecked to wonderful, great job!
One of the best I’ve seen. Thanks for posting.
Very good restoration. My father works in telecom Argentina, and he has a lot of parts of this ancient telephones. When I was child i played with the parts. Excelent video
In the beginning I thought it would be impossible. Very impressive!
At my family home when I was growing up we had the exact same phone I haven't seen another one since then you did a amazing job. I bet if you got the kids today to see one they wouldn't have a clue what it was
I'm 12 I know.
It’s obvious that it’s a phone, don’t take children for idiots.
Спасибо, очень замечательно, что есть люди, которые реставрируют старую технику.
부부부사움하다가 ?저나기는박삶
Nice. I haven't seen one of those phones in decades.
to your credit you don't shy away from the nasty ones not to berate other restorations where they deal with rust, accumulated crud and some dents you take on a bombed out hulk of a phone and turn it into something they wished they had in 1970 you did the right thing to clean the casing when it was fully assembled easier to clean up one large piece rather than fiddling around with half a dozen small pieces
Yep😃
ELMO LINCOLN// I graduated from high school in 1970 and I assure you, those phones looked wonderful when brand new : )
Thanks for the video. I've got the same telephone model as yours when I was searching at my relatives house. It was the japanese telephone NEC model 650A1 (yours was NEC 600 series?). I'll try to restore with your helo of your vid.
To your credit, I thought it was awesome that you kept the label on the bottom of the phone intact. Cool restoration!
Wow great job.
More than a restoration - a resurrection.
I'd stripped it of useful parts and binned the rest.
Strange choice of filler - I'd have used car body stuff.
Righteous work my man, truly righteous.
Very good my friend
Nice work dude...
Τέλεια η επισκευή του τηλεφώνου.
Amazing skills
Nice job. If I have dirty cords on a phone restoration, I put them in a sock, tie the top with string and put in with the rest of the laundry. Works a treat.
Takes a lot of patience....thing I do not have to do this, good for you ,great job 👍🏻
what a nice job.well done.
I am impressed! I would walk away and not even try to fix that... But not you! Thank you for sharing!
damn fine repair sir
Thanks for posting. This is the best one I’ve seen.
Thanks for restoring this beautiful piece of old technology
I have restored half a dozen rotary dial phones a few years ago, but I would have scrapped that one for parts, it seemed too far gone, good work
This guy is amazing!
All of its parts are so beautiful 😍😍. Look to that dialer it is a piece of art.
Awesome restoraction...👍
Very perfect!
In terms of the most damaged resto piece to restore I've seen anyone start with, the phone is f'n ridiculous! I have seen and subbed to other channels that do great work but they have a piece that's got all the pieces, is covered with rust but I have never seen anyone pull off something so damaged. I'm investing some time into your channel and I can see a sub! Only 75k subs? I don't think it will take long for the 100k mark! Great work!
A labour of love with this 1. Great job but shame you didnt clean the rubber feet. The restoration of the case was remarkable.
Love your video and restoring old classic item, we'll done 👍👍👍👍👍👍
From japan. This rotary phone must be made by Dendenkosya, today`s NTT. NTT is one of the most biggest telephone service company in japan. And my family still using this kind of telephone! I think that this model is 600-A2.
Hello!!! BATMAN . LOL .👍👍👍
What mixture of you used to fill big cracks?
Beautiful
Wow! Great Restoration!👍🏻😱👏🏻
Muito bom gosto muito dos seus videos sou brasileiro
Отлично! Аппарат снова работает. Пусть старый, но не бесполезный ;-)
do the old wooden one next. i allways wanted to see the inside of those big wooden phones.
Very good
Belo trabalho, achei legal o galo cantando, parabéns.
I wasnt around when they where use but nice to see them get brought back to life
wow a stunning work
Great job restoring this telephone. I remember these dial telephones from long ago. Cheers!
Very nice
Thanks
Wow! BRAVO!
Wow. Goo-gone, Goof-Off, Bestine or Acetone would be products that'd recommend for all the sticky tape--before you do your sawdust and epoxy reconstruction!
You have to be very careful using Acetone around some plastics so as not to mar the surface. I've found lighter fluid (naphtha) to be a good remover for old adhesive. You can buy a quart at the hardware store for about the same price as a small can at the drug store. Always transfer flammable liquids to small containers for use at the bench... better to have a small fire a fire extinguisher can deal with rather than a great big one.
@@aceroadholder2185 As a "girl", we used to use classic hairsprays (like Aquanaut) to get both inks and dye rub-off and sticky stuff like school glues (pre-cyanoacrylate years and epoxy was untouchable) off our vinyl shoes and jackets as well as crap I used to somehow get on my sewing machine housing. I don't know which "miracle" plastic that phone was made from--any info about that?
@@anna-lisagirling7424 Nail polish remover was our cleaner of choice,many years ago when I was young... ha ha
Good work
Um trabalho espetacular ! Parabéns !
Nice job! Looks great! Ive seen others restore yellowed plastics with hydrogen peroxide and the sun. That might work on the hang up switches and handset cord. Cheers!
Very good Telephone
Did he use epoxy (not clear type) after applying sand blast?
Does this phone go in the front pocket or rear?
I'm surprised an analog phone would work on a digital network. :) Good Job!
The phone networks at least where I'm from were always upgraded through stages, so they had to be sure upgrades were backwards compatible. Although some places have digital phones connected to the digital lines directly, most places around here have analog or analog-compatible phones plugged into modems plugged into the digital network (the modems are often also the internet routers of the house in question). It's not uncommon for phone signals to go through multiple modulation and demodulation stages from end to end.
i work for canadian telecom company, for analog phones with pulse dial like this one in the video there is a little converter box who does all the magic, but downside is that you wont be able to use some services that when you call it will tell you: for english press 1, for french press 2, if you dial it with pulse it wont work properly, and also sometimes you need to press * or #, some converter boxes actually have those buttons separately so you can still use rotary dial
Genius Work parabéns
Great work!!... I liked a lot.
Nice working
Nicely done! 👍
Thanks for the video.
Amo a esta gente! Excelente!
Did you repaint the numbers too?
Ok great work i am never doing something like this but please please take in considerarion these little suggestion 1) why you don't clean and refurbish also the rubber feet of the item? 2) why you don't polish also the inside of the phone case? Why you change the color of soe pieces of the phones? Thanls
Ich bin erlich gesagt sprachlos das du selbst kabel mit wasser gereinigt hast.Auch die Elektronischen sachen im inneren hast du mit wasser gereinigt.Trozallen bin ich vom endergebnis wirklich begeistert.Mich würde nur A interessieren ob das Telefon Funktioniert und B ist das ein Hun oder Han der im Hintergrund kräht?Trotzdem klasse video und ich liebe deine videos 👍👍👍👍
nice work man
Quedo genial 🤓👍
При современных технологиях корпус телефона проще распечатать на 3D принтере :))) .... но тебе отдельный респект за то что ты его сложидл изоригинальных кусочков. И отдельный респект за демонстрацию работы :))) ....
Great job, however you failed to mention which materials you used. I mean glue, filler... etc.
I liked the playing card technique. I will try it sometime.
Very good job. The phone was very detonated. You don't live in jail, but you're beast.(anyone very, very good inside that he do, one like you)
Could you list all the glues' names in your restoration?
I am in awe. Would have left the beast for dead and you made it actually a beauty.