[GreenKeys] Interesting item on "that site"

Don Robert House [email protected]
Sun, 15 Feb 2004 18:20:05 -0600


>Greg, et al,
>
>That item is the intermediate gear assembly for a Model 28. It is
>not the speed-setting gear. This unit holds the large speed gear that
>meshes with the motor-mounted pinion speed gear. The gear you
>see on the assembly transfers the energy to the mainshaft of the
>28 typing unit. There are two different gears that can be on the assembly.
>One of them is for the standard Bell speeds and the other is for
>the WU/military speeds (I don't remember the details, but I think
>the difference is in the operations-per-minute which essentially
>impacts the stop bit).
>
>73,
>Jack WA2HWJ


You may be correct Jack but I thought the assembly was for a model 35.

Don
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