[GreenKeys] teletypewriter on ePay

[w8au at sssnet.com]

AMEN, brother Robert...  good sermon...

At 10:46 PM 6/24/2009, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
>I need to throw in a concept correction here.  Most Teletype collectors
>don't know MS connectors from directly heated cathode tubes.  And 
>AN/UGC-129 is
>too new for the girls I go with to consider fooling with so I don't know
>specifically which connectors it uses.  But "MS series connectors" is a
>generic term that just means connector families approved for 
>purchase by DOD since
>about 1951.  Before that they were known as "AN Connectors".  Price of MS
>connectors today varies everywhere from about $15.00 (new or good used) to
>$300.00 each.  If the UGC-129 is old enough for Fair to have had 
>them and then
>sold out then the odds are that there are several variants of the
>connectors that fit it.  The expensive variant will have crimp rear 
>insert contacts.
>And the crimping tool costs more than the connectors.  You can teach a
>moderately bright monkey to assemble those.  Which is one of two reasons that
>they were made.  The less expensive down to relative cheap (in today's
>dollars, anyway) ones will still have solder contacts.  You can't 
>teach a bright
>monkey to assemble one.  But he can keep you company while you do it.  :-)