[GreenKeys] Model 19 - Motor speed setting

[Sheldon Daitch]

Marvin,

Thanks for the backup.

I was not invovled in that change, as I was not in the workforce
yet.

Well, let me ask you, then, if you recall, did you also have to change
the mainshaft gear?   And now that I ask that, I just cannot remember
if the mainshaft fiber gear can be changed without pulling the
mainshaft gear off the printer unit.

I realize that pulling the mainshaft is not a big deal, but properly
realigning it took some care.  It has been over twenty years since
I touched a M-15 and I don't have any manuals here with me.

Ah, such memories that endure, but where did I put my glasses a
minute ago!

Sheldon

KFIam640@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 2/5/02 16:55:03 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> sdaitch@phi.ibb.gov writes:
>
> > The AP slow speed wires, using M-15s were originally set up for 60 WPM and
> > sometime in the 1960s, I believe, they were upgraded to 66 WPM.
> >
>
> At the time of the change from 60 to 66 WPM I was working at a radio station
> and was sent a set of gears by AP with the request that the gears be changed
> on a certain date to accommodate the speed change.  I believe the speed
> change took place in the early sixties.
>
> Marvin Collins, W6OQI
> retired Chief Engineer, KFI/KOST, Los Angeles
>