[GreenKeys] UPI and AP Signs and Windows for machines...

[wa2hwj at att.net]

I can make those AP signs...I bought one of those plastic laminate
engravers a few years ago...Don has a few of the signs I made
for him.

I've also made engraved plates that replace the Model 28 "plates"
on either side of the keyboard. 

73,
Jack K0TTY


-------------- Original message from Don Robert House <k9tty at dls.net>: -------------- 


> I have both the UPI and AP signs on two of my machines. 
> The 15 has UPI and the 20 has the AP sign. Both are original. 
> 
> It should not be two difficult to reproduce them but the market would 
> probably be very small. 
> 
> On another subject close to our hearts is the laminated glass that was 
> used on the 14,15, 28 machines. 
> 
> I took samples to a local guy that specializes in glass fabrication. 
> 
> The problem is that the two laminates are very thin and not used in 
> any application today. 
> They would have to be made special and beveled on a machine. 
> 
> Even if I ordered a hundred of them the cost would be prohibitive. 
> 
> Glenn suggested the use of 1/4 inch tempered glass which he can cut 
> and bevel. 
> 
> 1/4 inch is probably too thick. What do you think? 
> 
> Perhaps Lexan is still the best alternative. 
> 
> Don 
> 
> 
> On 9 Jan 2009, at 9:01 PM, Duncan M. Brown wrote: 
> 
> I've emailed my E-bay buyer about it, if I don't hear from him tonight, 
> I'll call him in he AM. 
> 
> I wondered about the AP label also, I know how covers can move around. 
> (When I was in the Army, the Kleinschmidt machines had their serial 
> number 
> on the cover, so it was hard to keep track of units when operators 
> switched 
> covers.) But in one of the pictures, there is another AP label on the 
> chassis, under the range finder. 
> 
> I can imagine the typesetter is pretty complicated (never seen one) so 
> was 
> initially surprised to see a 6 level printer, but I suppose they just 
> used 
> it for basic text monitoring. 
> 
> If we get it, we will definitely keep the AP label, but your friend can 
> come to the museum and look at it! 
> 
> --Duncan 
> 
> 
> > [Original Message] 
> > From: Jim Haynes 
> > To: Duncan M. Brown 
> > Date: 09-Jan-09 21:40:38 
> > Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Model 20 Teletype available 
> > 
> > I have a friend who lusts after the Associated Press placard, but 
> > said it was farther than he wanted to drive to pick up (from the DC 
> > area) Seems like Rice is a lot farther away. 
> > 
> > That's news (no pun intended) to me too about AP sending 6-level 
> > stuff. I thought it was just chains of newspapers that did that. 
> > Like the newspaper in my home town in SW Arkansas was affiliated 
> > with some other papers in the area using Teletypesetter. Of course 
> > it would make some sense for AP to do it, since they are keyboarding 
> > the stuff to begin with. Keyboarding for Teletypesetter is a bit 
> > more complicated because you have to keep track of how much text will 
> > fit into a column. The perforator is quite a bit more complicated 
> > than the 5-level model, as it has to know about the widths of the 
> > proportional spaced characters, and then has has a variable space 
> > thing for the spacebands that the machine uses to fill out unused 
> > space 
> > on a line. 
> > 
> > Of course it's possible that the cover and placard originally came 
> > with a different machine. 
> > 
> > I'd say go ahead and bid on it for AWA, and if you win the bid and 
> > want to sell the placard you have a ready buyer. 
> > 
> > Jim 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > jhhaynes at earthlink dot net 
> > 
> 
> 
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