Have a 1976 Mickey Mouse push button phone. I get a dial tone, but not able to dial out

Yes if you can take it apart and find where the loose connection is.

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If you have no dial tone the problem is most likely the base station has failed, nothing you can do will kill the dial tone (no button you pushed etc.) except a failed base station.

Really old phones used a round dial that made pulses. It was a switch that made contacts according to the number. If you dial "5" it made contact 5 times on the line. I believe this only works on a real telephone line. It won't work on a digital phone line. They need touch-tone dialers. So, make sure you are using it on a line that can use pulsed dialers.

Did you ever find a replacement? I too am looking for one.
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What model Panasonic phone?

Do the buttons make a noise when your press them? If not then that part of the phone is broken.

Thanks to Eli Whitney (interchangable parts), there is probably a solution to this. http://www.public.carl.airpost.net/Phones/sc500.pdf
Try forcing Mickey's hand up and see if you get sound.
The spring that keeps it up is probably deteriorated over time. A little spring bending and strengthening will make "e" and "f" contacts seperate when you raise the handset.

Since ATC's used Comdial/Stromberg parts, this will be really close to your wiring diagram.

Carl

This may be your lucky day :-) If your MM is an early ATC model, you might be able to just REVERSE the red and green wires on the jack or base cord. Usually, the touch tone pad will make a little pressing sound but no tone comes out. Early TT pads were polarity sensitive and that's what we used to restrict dialing (yeah, remember phones USED to be hardwired into the jacks). Anyway, try that first. If the pad is really dead, you can probably order a replacement one for about $20, the labor and instructions to replace it will probably double or triple that.

If you find that it is not just polarized, pry up the faceplate and read the number on the side of the tone pad and post it here. It's probably a 35xxxxEPG or A!. I think I have a couple of those and the wiring diagram here.

Carl

Lisa, If the 900MHZ phone is Model 26928M programming for rotary dial usually goes like below, can't hurt to try on any model. TONE/PULSE DIALING This adjustment allows you to select tone (touch-tone) or pulse (rotary) mode dialing. The phone is pre-set for touch-tone use. To set to tone or pulse dialing: 1. Press and hold the program button for two seconds. You will hear a beep. 2. Press the *tone button to select Tone Dialing or press #pause to select Pulse Dialing. 3. Press the program button again. You will hear a confirmation tone.