old rotary phones

02-10-2007, 11:08 PM	#1
handifoot Member   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: portland, OR Posts: 151	old rotary phones I have a couple of the old rotary black desktop phones. Remember the ones that weigh like ten pounds. These have three wire cables, red, yellow and green. Does anyone know how i can use these cool old phones with my modern, (cat5), modular phone wiring? Thanks

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02-11-2007, 01:37 AM	#2
elementx440 Member   Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 221	old rotary phones A basic phone only utilizes the RED and GREEN wires, the other two are for a 2nd phone line if you had it. Match RED/GREEN to your rotary, it should work. Polarity doesn't matter on rotary phones I believe.