[GreenKeys] Selenium Rectifiers

[Don Robert House]

Tales from the Teletype Shop....

I remember replacing a dead selenium rectifier in a M19 back in 1969.   
The office manager kept pacing back and forth.  I told him his machine  
will be back in service shortly, but he kept pacing.  I finished and  
dialed up the test line.  This 19 was converted to DTWX in 1962.

He asked me about the smell.  I said some of these rectifiers go bad  
all at one time and some will let off a little of that smell at a time.

He said "I thought that is what you were going to tell me.  I have a  
real problem."  I said "What is the matter?"  He said, "We thought the  
operator was unclean and we let her go."  I said "Can't you just call  
her and explain?"  He said "It is not that easy, she is my sister-in- 
law."

Old Don