Hi again,

I am once again tapping the collective wisdom of the phone phorum here about methods of displaying phones. I am thinking about something that I can either use as a permanent display in a "phone museum" or take on the road to display phones at a show.

One Idea that I have been toying with is taking two precut yellow pine stair forms (sold at Lowe's) and using those as the base for making a three stair display that the phones would sit on. I would use oak veneer ply on the "risers" of the "stairs" and bisqueted red oak lumber as the "treads" of the stairs, and enclose the frame with nice plywood. Then I would use a variety of four prong outlets and hard wired outlets on the stair risers.

The only problem with this is that the cords will have to be wound up or they will become messy looking. I hate to wind cords as I am afraid that at their age, they may take a "set".

Any ideas would be most welcome!

Thank you in advance.

Best,

Joe Herdler

Real comms took 200lb teletypes, hand keys, sounders, operators and cranked phones!