[GreenKeys] tty questions

[Don Robert House]

The Western Union machine is a 100 series machine that they  
contracted Underwood to build for them.  They had paper handling  
problems like the Model 26 you are writing about.  The Model 26 was  
made by Teletype and sold to the Bell System for their manual  
teletypewriter exchange system.  The 26 was economical to build but  
difficult to maintain.  Most were taken out of service by the early  
fifties.  The Western union 101, 102, 103 and 104 usually had a small  
book inside the cabinet with maintenance information and schematic  
diagrams.  The M26 manuals are hard to come by.  Few people have the  
machines and fewer have the manuals.

Don
K9TTY


On 18 Feb 2007, at 1:33 PM, FRED wrote:

i have come across two western union teletype machines one is very  
old the carriage moves
across the plat tum the other the platinum the old one has the number  
26 on it the other one
only the name plate.
teletype got me into ham radio in 1977. im 79 yrs old my memory in  
about as long as something else
my first rig was a fletcher tu and a mod 15 was given a mod 28 in new  
shape had to leave in superior
wi. was a steamboat pilot on great lakes and lived there moved to nc  
to be with my mother
who was getting old.
if anyone cares to give me a hint as to what i have got here  and  
maybe a Semitics
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