[GreenKeys] Thanks to Dr House, and Request

[Gregory W. Moore]

Tnx, Roy, jhaines (separate post) and all,

the tube socket idea and the phone socket idea sure sounds like a 
winner.... the pins for contacts are basically, tube pin size,
and the index pegs are the same size as 1/4 in phone plugs.   I really  
think that they will actually lock in place with the same
bend which exists in phone jacks as well, and if they don't , that's ok, 
because I don't feel as if, for the purpose for which we are going to 
use them, they are going to be subject to vibration, shock, or any other 
forces which will tend to displace them from the socket.  (Unless, that 
is, one lives in CA, or the Pacific Rim, that is --hi--_

Actually, I was going to mount mine on a relatively thick A;  sheet. 
whoch was mounted to the rack chassis with shockmounts, so the relays 
would be dynamincally isolated from everything... amy motion would be 
damped by the shockmounts and by the wiring friom the relay contacts to 
whatever terminal strip or other jack strip I so choose to install.

Even in the military, I never used one heck of a lot of polar relays, 
virtually all of the stuff was neutral, and what wasn't, such
as the input conversion of carrier/muz units did the conversion 
electronically, they were still nice to have on the board, and we did 
keep them set, the contacts burnished, and set with the proper  at rest 
pole gap and zweo ( 0 ) bias.  It also gave one something to do on the 
midwatch so nobody could claim one was just "goofing off", even if  I 
was the supervisor of the watch, aqnd the Faxilities Controller.   I 
hated  just sitting there waiting for alarms to go off, so, adjusting 
things could pleasantly occupy any amount of time/  I never did 
particularly listen to those who said that said  preventative 
maintenance was "Beneath my Rate/Rank".  It was always a given in my 
mind that Teletype machines always needed 
cleaning/inspection/lubrication/adjusting, as they were one cycle away 
from catastrrophic failure --hi--. 

OPNOTE:  I also used to race at lightspeed to grab any messages which 
just might come in on CW circuits as well,  I was,
after all, a qualified Speed Key op (CLF-23),  and to be further 
selfish, since I was crypto op/repair,  one of the 5 "chosen ones" on 
the access list for offline  with the "higher than God" clearance. , it 
only made sense, right??????    What was I supposed to do. drag someone 
else out of the rack at 0 dark 30 ? I think not.....since    I had to 
break 'em   I may as  welll copy 'em so there wouldn't be any 
mistakes... I really don't see any faulty logic in this... If someone 
else wanted to copy alongside, well, there was a mill and a chair open, 
and they were welcom to do as they wished --hi--...

Please, keep me informed of your progress with the socket (s). I will do 
the same, so we don't wind up reinventing the wheel.
This sounds like a real winner, and an inexpensive, readily available, 
and exceedingly workable idea/  Thanks much for bringing
it to my ( amd  the Greenkeyers group) attention ///GW
73 de Greg



Roy Morgan wrote:

> Was: "Re: [GreenKeys] Thanks to Dr House, and Request"
>
> At 08:51 PM 1/26/2005, Gregory W. Moore wrote:
> ... I especially would like a WE 255 socket. as I have many relays, 
> but absolutely no sockets//////
>
> Geg and all,
>
> Same here.  I will be setting up a patch panel to manage the loops and 
> signals at the RTTY station here, and will include a polar relay in 
> the system to do some of the signal cleaning up and relaying.  I have 
> a couple nice relays but no sockets.
>
> Maybe there is a way we can use available parts to make a socket 
> substitute.  I think, for instance, that one of the indexing pegs is 
> the same size as a 1/4 inch phone plug, so a phone jack would work at 
> that spot.  Maybe bits from tube sockets or the like could be used 
> with a piece of Plexiglas for the rest.
>
> Roy
>
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