Comments on: How to Turn an Old WWII Field Phone Into a Bluetooth Handset

By: Christopher Tobin

Christopher Tobin — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:14:36 +0000

I was thinking of doing this to an old payphone though i beleave this is cooler. just not sure exactly how the hell to do it

By: Christopher Carlsson

Christopher Carlsson — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:04:46 +0000

I’m going to use an old West German field phone that even has a rotary dialer on it . Already use one for my landline they work great and are extremely easy to hook up to a regular telephone line so should be relatively easy. I’d reccomend them or some of the other military field phone from other countries out there as they cost a LOT less than an EE 8

By: Gadget

Gadget — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 07:10:44 +0000

Cool idea, but you’d get a similar result with less effort building a small audio interface which plugs into the headset jack on the smart phone. You’d be going old-school hardwired instead of Bluetooth wireless. Or for 15 bucks, the retro Bluetooth handset in the link above is hard to beat.

By: Yith

Yith — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:56:41 +0000

Or just use one of these: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8928/?cpg=froogle

With that there’s no need to mess up the field phone… which are yes getting expensive.

I had one of those with a fake cable to a WWII british army field phone.

By: HardlyNeutral

HardlyNeutral — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:07:22 +0000

I stopped by Radio Shack to pick up all the parts. I got just about everything I need but was unable to find a boost converter. The employees there couldn’t find it in their inventory or online. Am I looking for the right thing? Where else could I find it? My Google-Fu appears to be weak when looking for component electronics :)

By: me

me — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:35:13 +0000

How about using the hand generator to do somethiing like charge usb phones – i always thought that would be useful in a black out.

By: Curzen

Curzen — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:02:31 +0000

have to agree with james. at some point you got to ask yourself if destroying an artifact of increasing scarcity to create a gimmick of limited use is really worth it in the end.

By: James Sherron

James Sherron — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 04:23:30 +0000

Long time lurker, first time poster. I love the sight. While itt is a fine piece of engineering, I’m somewhat sorry to see a very nice original early (leather cased, by ’44 the EE8 and EE8-B’s were being made with canvas cases due to the leather cases rotting, particularly in the Pacific) WW2 field phone. Perhaps I’m just too much into WW2 and preserving integrity of historical items though, lol.

By: Dominick

Dominick — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:54:49 +0000

I did this 2 years ago with a Star Trek Communicator Toy. It still works, but alas I never use it anymore because you can’t see whose calling you from the toy.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:07:49 +0000

Chip, did you ever own a brick phone? They were great. The reception beats anything they have today.