[GreenKeys] TD gears for the dual head 28 ASR

[gfmurphy at earthlink.net]

Greenkeyers:

I'm calling the worm gear on the TD base the pinion because it
is the drive gear.  But it is certainly correct to call it the
worm gear.

Why not run your TTY machine at 100 WPM and have a buffer clock
it out at 60 WPM?  It's certainly not a problem to do it.  A
local ham had a setup like that.  He thought the keyboard was
too sluggish at 60 WPM so he changed his machine to 100 WPM.
Both the keyboard and TD ran at 100 WPM while the buffer took 
care of what was going out.  The buffer on the TD knew when it 
was getting full and simply stopped the tape while the buffer 
emptied.  An up-converter took care of incoming signals.

Jerry Murphy



-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeffrey D Angus <jdangus at att.net>
>Sent: Feb 4, 2013 2:28 PM
>To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] TD gears for the dual head 28 ASR
>
>On 2/4/2013 4:15 PM, gfmurphy at earthlink.net wrote:
>> Check with Google or Wikipedia for further clarification of the
>> 'hand' of gears.
>Just to clarify things a bit, by pinion you mean worm gear?
>I can see worm gears being cut for both towards or away
>from the end of shaft motion resulting in the mating gear
>turning in one or the other direction.
>
>Jeff-1.0
>wa6fwi
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