Field Phone

Another bit and pieces restoration done. Searching for this for five years already. Thanks for Jara Elblik informed that this label is on eBay. A dug out from a rubbish pit from a Luftwaffe air base in Kurland. Simple restore and cleaning, the plate back to good shape. Only have brass round head slot screw…
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Klappenschrank zu 5 Leitungen   The housing and front plate also built from scratch , cut and bend manually. Interesting to put his text together and the details of assembling over the months. Here is what he wrote: It’s Easter now and I’m still making the switchboard. I made a new frame and back cover…
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Klappenschrank zu 5 Leitungen  Most impressed of the work of Jara, he even built a functional Klappenschrank zu 5 Leitungen  out of relic and the leftover material from the ten lines. Took him months of work since Spring, produced the front plate and completed the wiring, which is not an easy job he said. Here…
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I recalled my minor repair of my Klappenschrank was a nightmare but his rewiring the whole unit is amazing, some of the rusty magnetic units had bee cleaned and still functional, and replaced some good magnetic units until all ten are good. Now the Klapp is as good as new and functional, his next plan…
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Lucky he got all of the metal parts from the old wooden housing. Together with the wooden outer housing I found and his old wood from a Polish donor box the wooden housing had completed. Final step is to unify the color of all wooden parts.

Here to share the work of the restoration of the ‘kleiner Klappenschrank zu 10 Leitungen’. Jara Elblik had spent three months to work on it from relic to a full functional unit. He contacted me (we became friend ever since) as he found my minor restoration of my Ten Lines, he needs measurements and parts, when…
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The restoration is almost completed, the ugly green paint been removed, the original oak wood is still like new. Good work Alex, looking forward for full restored and back to function.

He found this 1937 kleiner Klappenschrank zu 10 Leitungen in Ukraine. Like many other sets survived the war, been painted to green and served until abandoned when the technology became outdated.

—-SOLD—- (When looking back today, its a good reference of German design switch board still in use post war in other country and a good source for parts.) Up for sale is an early and nice preserved postwar Small 10 lines Switchboard–$250 plus p&p. Item location in Canada.  Yugoslavia Field Switchboard Post WW-II (dated 1954)…
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First time tried to apply wood filler on the damaged spots on the wooden housing of the Amtszusatz 33. The scar on the right looks like insect bites, and some scratch marks on top right. Tried to patch up these scars, dried on 15 mins but its shrinks when dried, patched up three times until…
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