[Boatanchors] Hickok KS-15750-L1 tube tester schematic needed

[David Harmon]

Ok Pete....you're the expert.

I was reluctant to respond to the OP because I felt certain that it would
develop into a pissing contest....and it is starting.


73

David Harmon
K6XYZ
Sperry, OK

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Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 3:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Hickok KS-15750-L1 tube tester schematic needed

Most likely, the tag, "KS" or "KS spec" came from an Engineer (maybe his
first or last initial) at the AT&T location at 463 West Street, NYC back in
the early 1900's. At West Street, besides a lot of other activities, they
also did dimensional drawings for piece-parts, wrote specifications,
developed quality standards. 

In an Western Electric News article dated November 1920, which was
distributed to Western Electric Employees, there was a tongue and cheek
article called, "Humanizing the Engineer, a Study of Outside Limit
Material". In the second paragraph of the news article, it stated "KS:
specifications for apparatus purchased from outside firms - KS meaning
'Kan't Squirm', because they pin the manufacturer down so tight that he
can't wiggle out of any of the requirements."
The construction of the Kearny plant didn't begin until 1923 so the reality
that "KS" had something to do with the Kearny plant or a "Kearny Spec"
really isn't true. After Bell Laboratories came into existence in 1928, most
the draft specification requirements were done by Bell Labs engineers and
then sent to the AT&T Quality and Standards Organization to shape it into a
"KS" document.

Pete, wa2cwa
www.manualman.com


On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 11:18:56 -0500 "David Harmon" <k6xyz at sbcglobal.net>
writes:
> The Bell System has/had a method of having tools and equipment mfgd by 
> non-Bell sources.
> This apparatus was mfgd to a Bell spec called 'KS'.
> Generally....this stands for 'Kearny Specification'.
> There is some speculation that the KS spec system goes back to before 
> 1920 and was called 'Kellogg System' at the time.
> Later...much of the small tools and equipment was mfgd at the Kearny 
> plant and the 'KS' meaning morphed into 'Kearny System'.
> So..........every relay burnisher, relay adjusting tool, test 
> sets....everything used by a Bell System employee had a KS number 
> stamped into it.

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