The best thing you can do with a disk phone is to fix it. But what if it is half-dismantled and half of the details are missing? The author of Instructables under the nickname duncanwilkinson decided that in this case the device can be converted into a table lamp.
The wizard opens the phone, which, according to him, used to work in the hardware of Ceefax - the ancestor of teletext known to us today, and discovers that there really is not much left in it:
At the master’s household, a broken lamp with a flexible leg is found, which he needs:
The master fixes the leg (a cord is already provided inside it, nothing else needs to be done), and makes a hole for it in the phone cover:
Installs lamp holders in the telephone receiver - it’s clear that the British standard, since Ceefax is mentioned:
Parallelizes the lampholders in the tube, connects it to the cord laid in a flexible leg. From the side of the phone’s case, it connects another cord with a plug to the same cord. Screws in lampholders modern LED lamps. AND homemade ready:
A more modern disk telephone may refuse to be light, which will make the lamp unstable. Then inside the case it is necessary to place any small but heavy object. A hammer without a handle is perfect if it is well secured and insulated.