Butchered a phone.. Anything useful?

[Beros]

I just opened up an old phone... Can you guys se if there's any useful parts in there? Um.. I don't really know what to look for.. Guess I'll steal the capacitors and the metal can trannies.. It says *someting* then 12101, on them. The lettering has faded away.. any clues on what it could be?

[PerroGrande]

Looks like there are some diodes on there, too.  Who knows -- they might be Germanium...

[GREEN FUZ]

Aswell as the metal cans there looks to be a couple of silicon trannies. The black ones , three legs, one flat side. Apart from a lot of pretty coloured resistors you also have a handful of diodes. That`s the black fellows with the silver ends. Useful for distortion pedals among other things. I think the glass ones that look a bit like resistors are zener diodes.

[slacker]

sometimes the microphones in phones are surprisingly good.
Broken cordless phones and especially the base stations often have loads of useful parts in.

[Beros]

What's the white thing with the blue line, above the R-button?

[dennism]

Harmonic microphone out of the handset!

[R.G.]

Those two coupling transformers might be useful for rewinding into inductors. Or transformers.

[boyersdad]

What's the white thing with the blue line, above the R-button?

Looks like a rectifier diode.

There are also some box caps (1uf even!) which would probably be worth taking.

The headset transducer is the part I'd be interested in. Make a nice harp mic.

[km-r]

i have two telephones that are not used... but theyre "modern type" lots of ICs and crystals...
too bad...

hey, the inductors look nice!

[nordine]

use the enclosure 

[markm]

use the enclosure 

[mnordbye]

use the enclosure 

Like, pick up (kick off?) the phone to turn the effect on!  Hard to turn off in the middle of the gig though...   

[bumblebee]

Lots of useful things in there imo,the keypad could be fun on a bent effect/toy or something.

[Beros]

use the enclosure 

Like, pick up (kick off?) the phone to turn the effect on!  Hard to turn off in the middle of the gig though...