[GreenKeys] Model 28 Compact

[Doug Alderdice]

Thanks, Jack!

73,

Doug, KA2WFT

At 12:45 AM 11/27/2007 +0000, wa2hwj at att.net wrote:
>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.