[GreenKeys] teletypewriter on ePay

[Jack]

To all:

I used cut-off pieces of a large paperclip as pins for the UGC129
connections. You can easily solder to the "pins" and, if you're
really serious, put some heat shrink over the soldered connections.
You only need the loop in/out and keyboard connections.

I modified my 129's by hard-wiring AC cords in place of the power
input connector.

The purists are more than welcomed to spend more money on the
connectors 
than the TTY's...!

73,
Jack K0TTY



-----Original Message-----
From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
w8au at sssnet.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:10 PM
To: WA5CAB at cs.com; Greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] teletypewriter on ePay

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.
:-)

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