[Elecraft] vibroplex bug

[Charles Allison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Charles Allison
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:20 AM
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] vibroplex bug


Chris,

My wife got the bug bug, the straight key bug, the iambic key bug... fairly
recently too.  She is a dedicated but fairly slow cw operator as well and
keeps a 1960 vintage vibroplex, a blackwidow iambic and a modern russian
knockoff of the world war II Junkers german key all tied to her K2 at the
same time.  She's also got 3 or 4 more bugs, mostly Vibroplex.  One can buy
weights for the Vibroplex to slow it down and I think she's got 2 weights on
her regular key.  One of the keys had a 4-40 screw hole tapped in the side
of the weight.  It was explained that this used to be done by some operators
that installed a copper tube, squashed and drilled, to  provide an extra
weight as a lever that could be used to immediately change speeds by pushing
the top outward or inward - without having to loosen the weight screw,
position the weight and then tightening the weight screw down again.

best regards,

Charles
wb5izd

Message: 1
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:08:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris Kantarjiev <cak at dimebank.com>
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] vibroplex bug
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Message-ID: <200707270108.l6R18csc017125 at moose.dimebank.com>

I got the bug bug about a year ago, and found a 1923 Vibroplex in decent
shape. Yeah, the dot rate is way too fast to learn with. After exploring
many options for slowing it, I went to a local hobby shop and got a bit
of brass tubing that has an ID that is a slip fit over the rod. About 6"
did it for me - slows the dots right down and still allows me to do
some adjusting.

73 de chris K6DBG