[GreenKeys] Model 28 Compact

[wa2hwj at att.net]

The 28 typing unitin the Compact has cut-down side plates and the
bell mounted on the left sideplate. I don't recall the platen being
anywhere but in its normal location. Moving that would cause all sorts
of frontplate changes, etc.

Jack WA2HWJ


-------------- Original message from Doug Alderdice <ka2wft at arrl.net>: -------------- 


> Don et al, 
> 
> Regarding the UGC-20/77, I believe you are correct, at least my UGC-20 
> works with a regular 60 ma loop. I am told that the UGC-77 is indeed the 
> version for Tempest with the photo cells and all that. Gil had a lot of 
> that stuff outlined on his web site, is that still around? Somewhere on a 
> hard drive someplace I have some photos of the internals of UGC-77 that 
> another Greenkeyer (forgotten whom now, sorry) sent me once. 
> 
> As for the typing unit, I guess I have never studied mine closely enough to 
> say whether the one in the UGC-20 is any different from those used in full 
> size Model 28s. I'll have to check that out the next time I am puttering 
> about with them! At a glance they look the same, but I have never put one 
> side-by-side with the other. 
> 
> And don't feel too badly about the museum's Model 12, mine isn't currently 
> running either. It is at least all together on the table, but it has a 
> number of electrical contact issues on the table and it won't print 
> correctly. It worked when I once hooked it all up with clip leads, so it 
> must be the contacts and contact assembly on the table. The one on mine is 
> split and needs to be glued/epoxied/whatever to stabilize that. The motors 
> run and the keyboard/distributor works fine as I can put it in a loop with 
> the other machines here and type to them just fine. Just need some more of 
> the four-letter word: TIME. 
> 
> 73, 
> 
> Doug, KA2WFT 
> 
> 
> At 05:20 PM 11/26/2007 -0600, Don Robert House wrote: 
> >Doug, 
> > 
> >You make my heart ache for our Model 12 which is in pieces in my 
> >friends garage in Oceanside, CA. 
> > 
> >I am having a mental problem with your write up on the UGC 20. In my 
> >head the typing unit had some modifications made to it to fit into the 
> >case. I think that the standard typing unit would fit in a skintight 
> >28 KSR but not in a compact 28 KSR. I remember the side plates and 
> >platen being positioned differently than standard. 
> > 
> >You can also help me a bit with the nomenclature, if I remember 
> >correctly the UGC 20 has a multi-contact distributor and takes a 
> >regular 60 milliamp loop. The same unit with a light distributor for 
> >TEMPEST use was the UGC-77 
> > 
> >Can you verify this? 
> > 
> >Thanks, 
> >Don 
> >K9TTY 
> > 
> > 
> >On 26 Nov 2007, at 5:11 PM, Doug Alderdice wrote: 
> > 
> >There's a pic of one in the carrying case on my web site, 
> >http://mysite.verizon.net/dalderdi/telegrph/ second one up from the bottom. 
> > 
> >73, 
> > 
> >Doug, KA2WFT 
> > 
> > 
> >At 04:55 PM 11/26/2007 -0600, Don Robert House wrote: 
> >>Western Union 2B Strip Printer based on the Model 14 Typing 
> >>Reperforator. 
> >>Uses 5/16 or 3/8 inch wide gummed paper tape for telegrams.. 
> >>I seem to not be able to remember which width, but methinks it is 
> >>5/16" 
> >> 
> >>Don 
> >>K9TTY 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>On 26 Nov 2007, at 4:10 PM, Larry Tighe wrote: 
> >> 
> >>What is a "2B" ( I'll skip the obvious Shakespear :>) 
> >> 
> >>lar 
> >> 
> >>>I recently cleaned a VERY encrusted 2B printer. 
> 
> 
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