A Western Electric 500 telephone issue....

[Kamakiri]

Picked up a couple black bakelite model 500 phones at the flea market last week, and got one all cleaned and shined up, and hooked it up, but I've got a weird issue.

Pick up the receiver, it has a dial tone for about a second, then *click*. If you keep listening for about 10 seconds, it'll do the same thing....dial tone, then *click*, dead.

I have Time Warner Cable for my phone service here. Don't think that's the issue, as I have another WE rotary wall mount from the late 70s or early 80s in regular use. This model I'm trying to use is mid-50s....there's no date stamp on the bottom, but the components all have date codes from 1954-1957.

Ideas or thoughts appreciated