[GreenKeys] Typewriter keys

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Perry,

It doesn't only effect TTY machines and parts.  I once had the widow of a 
local surplus dealer (whose inherited warehouse I and about three other people 
mostly cleaned out) decline to sell me some aircraft antennas because she was 
starting some sort of night-club and wanted to use them in some sort of 
artsy-fartsy display.

But the reason most TTY equipment goes to the dump is that your last sentence 
is quite literally true, if not quite in the way in which you meant it.  Most 
TTY collectors expect everything to be free for the taking.

In a message dated 12/2/2008 10:59:15 PM Central Standard Time, 
w8au at sssnet.com writes: 
> Your guess is right.  I was appalled when I first found out about 
> this desecration
> of good artifacts.  But the stupid fact is that the keys are worth 
> more to necklace
> and charm bracelet artists than the whole machine is to collectors.
> 

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
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