[GreenKeys] WUTCo and M32 Typewheels... a request for assistance...

[Don Robert House]

Greenkeyers and Graykeyers,

I have a Model 32ASR that I just got back from being used in a stage  
play in Chicago.
Sadly the case is broken in two places and the paper spindle is  
missing, however it could have been worse.
I am happy to have it back.

Like most of these machines, it was a former WUTCo TELEX I machine.   
In it's infinite wisdom Western Union made some odd decisions. Let me  
explain...
I have one of their Model 1A "Iron Horse" perforators that works  
beautifully.  The touch is as good as my computer keyboard... But that  
is another story.  The oddity is that the early keylevers with  
permanent keytops have the apostrophe and the BELL in the same place  
as Bell System machines.  That is BELL over the S and apostrophe over  
the J.  At some point WUTCo decided to switch the FIGS functions so  
that the S has the apostrophe and the J has the BELL.
So now I get a BELL ring every time someone sends me an apostrophe and  
several apostrophes when someone wants to get my attention.  DUMB..!
Of course the typewheel also has the apostrophe in the "wrong" place.

In addition to this problem the WRU function on TELEX machines is FIGS  
D so if I receive that code on ITTY the answerback drum trips garbling  
the incoming message.
I can disable that in the function box area, but I really would like  
to change the function bar for the BELL and replace the typewheel with  
a BELL Standard Communications one.
Trouble is that all of my documentation for 32 and 33 parts gives two  
things; the two character typewheel code and the Teletype Part  
number.  So unless you have a photographic memory there is nothing I  
can find in print that explains what the typewheel character  
arrangements are for either the two letter code or the part number.

I have a brand new 32 typewheel still sealed from TTY CORP it is a JA  
part number 180460 packed in 1980. Can anyone tell me what arrangement  
a JA typewheel has?
FYI all (13) M32 typewheels begin with a J and all (9) M33 typewheels  
begin with an M. If I ever figure this out I will be happy to share  
the information.

Thanks for your time and please pardon my BELL HEAD mentality.

73,
Don K9TTY