Quote Originally Posted by Timebender View Post
Simple but dumb question - how do you prep the phone keypad to fit into the TRW time circuits enclosure? Do I remove the existing keypad front that seems to hold the keys, and then break off the extraneous keys?

Greg
I'm assuming you've got one of the GTE phone keypads that wasn't originally part of a real TRW keypad/enclosure? If that's the case, then yes you have to remove the front face of the keypad and replace with a replica that has blanks to delete the * and # keys. People have been 3D printing or casting that front face in addition to the green housing.

It's been a while since I've taken apart one of the keypads but if I'm remembering correctly once it's disassembled enough to swap the face plate you should be able to just pull out the two unneeded keys and reassemble with the new face plate. The red housing behind the creme colored face plate on the real TRW keypads that hold all the buttons still have the cutout/openings for the * and # but those buttons were just never installed.

You basically just need to mod your GTE phone keypad to match how it would have been assembled from the factory had it originally come with the alternate face plate without those two buttons.

Hope that all makes sense.