[GreenKeys] Parts needed for Mite and 28ASR

[Gregory W. Moore]

All list members,
I am reposting this, as I am in rather urgent need of the below listed 
parts.   I am trying to restore my mite, and also get the gearset for 
same so that it can have if need be, 100 wpm capability.

the 28 ASR was acquired several years ago, and is a real bare bones unit 
   with 80 gearing....... I would like if possible to obtain the great 
unobtanium,, the 3 speed gearshift for the mainshaft, and slso the 
somplet set of parts for the underdome reperf...note I have the reperf, 
the gearshift, the belts, and the front cover with the tape slot, but no 
internsla such as the tape reels, etc.   I am trying to restore this to
1960;s USN livery, as the one I have id WU all the way.... Will 
entertain trades for WU disto test set, a complete Stelma disto aalyser 
*I have a UK Trend unit, and the XYL is getting somewhat irritate about 
space, and since I am in the final stages of completing the TTY_connect 
project, to use with the Big Bird, I will part (tearfullyO with the 
Stelma( Now, I will admit, up front, I don;t want to part with the 
stelma, as we have spent many many hours on watch together in the day, 
amd amd have troubleshot many a RATT problem when the station with the 
problem swore up and down that the problem was at my end (it sure as 
hell felt good to be right, and use one;s quarterdek rasp on the 
miscreant (no, I never took any diciplanary action, just wnt into 
lawnmower mode on said miscreant's posterior, and used it as an 
instruntional experience............

I also have several patch panels, 2 red and 3 black, and since the 
obtaining of the USS America for our museum foundation looks pretty [ppr 
at this point, and I have become Persona Non Grata with NAVSEA (I have 
to surmise someone put in a poison pill) I cant even get aboard to strip 
out several 28 KSER;s still in CIC which are full up, reperfs, printers, 
pristine keyboards, underdabinet power supplies, remote relay boxes for 
ASCII>Baudot conversion, crypto interfaces, in other words, all the 
bells and whistles.... plus enough patch panels both audio and dc to 
supply anyone on this listserver who might want one, including several 
massive central loop supplies, many polar relays, at least 8 regen 
repeaters, all escaped the demil gorillas hammer, and would have taken 
me, even without help less than a day to strip out and make available 
for the froup....a sad day indeed..all I got was the damn type 
boxes......Don't lose hope..... I am still trying, there is a distinct 
possibility that NAVSEA is confusing the USS Anerica Museum Founmdation, 
Inc, with the USS America Carrier Veterans Asspcoatom while both are 
charitable orgs and tax exempt, the mission is totally different..... we 
wamt tp ,ale amuseum, and darn it, if we cant get the ship, then we want 
the island (I would like the ship, because I want to get the comm spaces 
up and running with that great greenkey sound, and have an agreement in 
principle with the powers that be to provide original outside covers of 
the various crypto equipment in use at the time, which, of course was 
retired after being retired by the traitorous walkers......it would be 
very easy to wire them up so the lights flash and the printout looked 
real with the appropriate pauses, etc, without any compromise at all, 
since there would be nothing inside to give away any sensitive 
information,,,,since I was a qualified repairman on all the gear, 
duplicating the dime delays, the print/hesitate etc, would just be a 
matter of buffering, and the lights would flash, and the system would 
"crash: periodically, just like real life, so the visitor could be 
treated to screams, salty oaths, use of rubber mallets, lighters, shoes, 
threats, including pointing one's .45 (OPNOTE: I always wondered why we 
were issued one.  Don't get me wrong, I have always loved shooting in 
competition, still do, and praciced regularly off the fantail at 
whatever we could throw over the side, but I kind of figure that it was 
"capture, to be use in case of imminance of, by application to the 
brain" at the unit and informing same that if it didn't begin breaking 
messages instanter, it would be considered a traitor and ignominously 
shot on sight --hi--.... NO, I never did, but it sure as heck drained 
off hostility and got a few laughs from the rest of the Facility 
Controllers (no the problem was not fixed either, but the emotional 
catharthis worked wonders).........

OK I have babbled enough.......I do have something else which I can 
offer for trade for partial compensation.  I have a complete set of 
manuals for the 28ASR, which, rather miraculously, were MY own manuals, 
which disappeared for 34 years ++ and which, seeng someone offerning a 
set for private sale, purchased, and lo and behold, on the flyleaf, was
neatly printed "GW MOORE RM1 USN  USS AMERICA CVA 66 CR DIVISION DO NOT 
REMOVE FROM THIS SPACE".   As you may surmis, I was literally blown 
away, as this is the second time I have bought stuff back, last year, I 
bought back my complete set of teletype tools, also from a private 
seller, and they were engraved with my name and rate..  talk about 
eeerie.........

Anyhow, enough of trips down memory lane.... I will be happy to begin 
scanning these voluminous manuals into the puter in pdf format, sure it 
will take a while, but I feel that they should be made available, and I 
would like to crreake a Jay Waller Memorial page similar to the RTTY com 
memorial page on my website, and populate it with manual copies, and 
maintenance hints and kinks.   I don't have the time, nor the pain free
interval (I have been having the "Migraines from hell" and have been 
undergoing tests and seeing all the various neuro types, and the meds 
kind of leave me somewhat drifty, so I have to do this (scan) when I can.

Please advise me if anyone can help me with the main gearshift, a TYPING 
  perforator (I will trade the non typing perf as part payment) and 
everything required for an underdome reperf, less the reperf itself and 
the front plate with the tape chute.  I also could use a pair of 
selector magnets for a M14 ROTR, and an external case for same.  I could 
also use the WE line relay for this *not the 255, the one that firts the 
rectangular socket....... I do, as I have previously stated have parts, 
etc for trade, including, but not limited to, an AN URA8 2 ANURA-17's
various test sets, many parts of which they are too many to list here, 
and of course the Stelma.... I really don't want to part with that damn 
stelma, but if it comes down to that or the reperf and the perf, well, I 
have a perfectly good TREND unit which does all the stelma does and more....

Let me know what ya got.....

I live in Upper Darby, right outside Philadephia, and pickup would be 
the way to go here.... I can't lift much due to the state of my back, 
although I try ans spend the next 8-9 days payng for my sins --hi-- and 
listneng to the laughter from the XYL and daughter (OPNOTE: for some 
reason, like most XYL/YL's they seem to class heavy metal in the "Junk" 
category...any amount of stating "But!!! That's not Junk, that's PURE 
UNOBTANIUM, a brand new element, not heretofore found in nature, and 
priceless, even though one can't acutally sell the equipment, it's just 
too valuable to sell --hii-- (they bough this?? I don't know?"" This 
argument also works on hollow state devices, hollow state components in 
boxes, heavy duty aircraft style switches, large pilot lamp assemblies, 
etc, and my favorite, the plaque with a rudder/body flap position 
transducer from the Shuttle program with a suitable engraved brass plate
listing all the engineers who spent the 20 hour days finalizing the 
dssign, and is mounted complete with the 10 grand/ft cables protruding 
threrfrom, of which the specs decreed should be 6 feet in length for 
acceptance, yet when one came back for rework, one couldn't help but 
notice that they were cut off to 7 inches in length and connectors were 
attached (no I don't know where the rest of this wonderful stuff went)..
What a country.....

Thanky for any help........ I will be posting shorly about a dot matrix 
crypto printer, which also has baudot cpability, and all I need is a 
darn pinout, so I can power it up, and get it to print with the 
TTY-Connect progrm as well, but that's for another time....

I trust all had a happy, safe, and filling Thanksgiving,

73 se tnx de Greg "GW" Moore WA3IVX/NNN0BVN

The only two modes of comms worth consideration are Morse and Ratt suing
5 level Baudot code.  All else are poseurs and charlatans!!!!!!

Gentlemen:

I am  in need of some information and also a couple of parts for both my
Mite and my M28ASR.

My Mite, (TT299B/UG) with the (CY-2977A/UG)  Has been "dinged" on the
front portion of the case, in  such a fashion that the local buttons for
LF, etc jam.... Now, I realize that if I drill out the rivets, and do
come old fashioned body work, of witch I am quite familiar, everything
would be OK.

However, being disabled from various fun activites in my younger days, I
would much rather try to come across a replacement cover from someone
who is stripping out for parts.   I would also appreciate a source for
the .1 A fuse (the miniature one, I can't seem to find one in the correct
value, only approximate....

In addition, if someone has a 100WPM gear for said animal, or know where
one can be found,
I also would be greatly appreciated, as mine came geared for 60, and the
stud where the speed change grears were stored was conspicuously empty--hi--


OK, on to the model 28ASR.......

I need a TYPING perforator,

also a mounting base, motor, and all else necessary to install a typing
reperf in said unit (I have many typing reperfs, many ribbons, and
various other bits, but not the set for the M28 typing reperf.
I could provide a list of the pat numbers, but it is too early in the
moring for me to get the M28 manual out, (funny story here) I left my
original complete set of M28 Manuals aboard the USS America (CVA/CV-66)
when I departed her 32 years ago,  and bought a set thru private sale
last year.. LO and behold, inside the front cover were neatly lettered
my name and rank, so, like a feline, they eventually found their way
home--hi--


I would be interested in a couple of sockets for a WE255 polar relay, as
well as 2 relays of the type used on the M14  (uses the long socket)
again, I could give you part numbers at request, but I don't have the
manuals handy.  If you have a set of selector mags for an M14  reperf,
they would also be a nice touch,


Anyhow, shopping list ended,,  ooooops.......if ANYONE has a 3 speed
gearshft for an M28ASR mainshaft, that would be the icing on the cake...
I realize I am requesting unobtanium, but it can't hurt (much) to ask.....


73 es tnx for listening to my babble....
de Greg "GW" Moore WA3IVX /NNN0BVN

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