Rotary phone issues

2 questions: how is the cord connected inside the phone,are spade connectors used or are wires soldered(prewired) onto a circuit board? Have you got other line jacks in the house with other phones connected or just the one phone in the main jack? The connectors might need to be re-arranged or the prewired cord you got with the phone could be faulty or the jack itself could be faulty.Usually 3 connectors are needed on the cord for the phone to ring.You'll prob see 4 wires in the cable(sometimes 6!)-looking at the connectors ends.Red or green can be for incoming speech path(the person calling you).Green or red can be be outgoing speech path(you calingl them).These can be swopped around.the bell wire will be yellow or black.If the cord you got with the phone is prewired i.e.just plugs into the base of phone you could try another cord.If you have other jacks in the house try disconnecting them-keep the main jack(near your front door)connected and see if phone rings.Then reconnect each jack to see which one is stopping the ring.The same colours need to follow thru on each jack for ring to work.That's a short run thru!!