[GreenKeys] Screw Sources

[Sheldon Daitch]

Oh wow, seeing that number brought back a
memory from my AP days.

Sheldon

Jim Haynes wrote:
> On Fri, 8 May 2009, Roy Morgan wrote:
>   
>> It seems that the hardware used by Teletype Corp. was very nicely
>> made.  Possibly a better class of thread than is common now.  And
>> likely the hardware was made on a screw machine, and not rolled like
>> most hardware nowadays.
>>
>>     
> Teletype made its own hardware, using screw machines, until the Model 
> 32/33 product line.  One weakness of a company having such an excellent
> factory that can make anything is that designers keep having special 
> things made, rather than using something already made or something off
> the shelf.  So one could argue that Teletype had far too many part
> numbers of screws and shoulder screws and eccentric shoulder screws
> and stuff like that.  The single part made in the largest quantity
> was 2191, a #6 lock washer.
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