"kraftee" <Kraftee@b&e-cottee.me.uk> wrote in message
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> Roger Mills wrote:[color=green]
>> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
>> kraftee <Kraftee@b&e-cottee.me.uk> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Roger Mills wrote:
>>>> I have one of these phones (bought at a car boot sale!) with one
>>>> line connected to BT and the other to my VoIP ATA - and it's
>>>> brilliant when it works.
>>>>
>>>> However it has a tendancy for the LCD display to disappear or
>>>> collapse to a single line, and needs a lot of judicious massaging
>>>> to restore it.
>>>> I would like to replace it with another of the same type, but it
>>>> is a discontinued model and no-one seems to have any. The only
>>>> 2-line corded phone available seems to be the ATL Delta 700 - and
>>>> that doesn't come anywhere near the Converse 1400 for convenience
>>>> of use. Can anyone suggest where I might get a (used, if necessary - so
>>>> long as it works) Converse 1400? It seems to me that some firms
>>>> may be replacing these with DECT phones . If so, what happens to
>>>> the old ones?
>>>> TIA.
>>>
>>> A little bit obvious but have you tried Ebay....[/color]
>>
>> Yes - no joy! Best I can find is a User Manual - and I already have
>> one!
>> There must surely be some outfits around which deal in second-hand
>> telecoms kit - but it's knowing where to find them.[/color]
>
> One look does not make a complete search, if you really wanted it you
> would search at various times of day as auctions are coming & going all
> the time. It's taken me 3 months to find something I was after & last
> night the perfect example showed up & I bought it.
>
> Moral is to search & keep searching & not giveup after the first attempt..[/color]


And set up email alerts with a well worded search strings.
That's how I found the obsolete gas valve for my old boiler,
or rather it found me.
--
Graham

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