[GreenKeys] 6 Bit? Linotype TTS?

[Keelan Lightfoot]

Phillip,

The magazine arrangement on your machine is unlike anything I've seen on this continent. I have come across photos of a number of German machines, and the magazine frame always looks very distinct -- is quite 'sculpted' looking on German machines. The rest of the machine looks similar enough, but most of the parts look different enough to be incompatible.

Until I get a wall built, my Linotypes share space with my woodworking operations, which at times can produce an astonishing amount of dust. I've found the best tools to take care of the dust are a 4" (I mean 10 cm!) paint brush and an air compressor. I'd much rather clean dust off of something than grease. Maybe we should switch places for a stretch! :-)

Yes, a Lorenz Lo15. It doesn't have the enclosure, and some pieces of the tape mechanism are missing, but it is otherwise functional. I received it from a local ham that put it together from the spare parts he had kicking around. He ran a Lo15 as his main TTY for years, until a Model 28 took over. I am in Canada -- Apparently, CN (Canadian National) Rail used Lorenz equipment in its network. It seems that for a period it was quite common to import telecommunications equipment from Europe. I have an electromechanical British Ericsson 50 line PABX in my accumulation as well; it's amazing that it was deemed more economical to bring something from Europe than to import it from south of the border.

- Keelan

On 2013-06-08, at 8:26 AM, Philipp Hachtmann wrote:

> Hi Keelan,
> 
>> Welcome to the somewhat exclusive club of Linotype&  Teletype enthusiasts --
>> I think you're member #4.
> Ah really? I did not expect to find that many people with Linotype AND Teletype :-)
> 
>> That is a beautiful machine -- I had no idea that the european models were so
>> different from the North American models.
> Hm, I do not think that they are really that different. I could imagine that the most obvious difference is the naming/numbering. At least for the European machines it seems that some central parts are the same over all models. So I assume that the American ones are very closely related. In the paperwork I have I also found references to other model numbers found in Europe but not in Germany. It probably would be easier to distingish the machines by description of features than by numbers.
> One big difference between European and American stuff is the type height. We have 23.56mm type height here.
> 
>> My first Linotype came gift-wrapped
>> in the same white powder, and some of my spare magazines are still caked with
>> it.
> Oh, that white powder.... I *hate* dust on my hands. I can't stand it at all. I have no problems with oil, grease, any kind of mud. But dusty hands is a horror to me. So I will have some work getting the machine dustfree and greasy again.
> I have only the four magazines on the machine and two other ones with unknown contents. On the machine it's Helvetica 8pt, 10pt, 12pt, and 10pt italics if I remember correctly. The extra mats are missing.
> 
>> I haven't been able to close the gap between Teletypes and Linotypes -- I
>> have Model 31 and Model 8 Linotypes, a couple Teletype Model 28's, a Teletype
>> Model 32, and a Lorenz LO15. But I don't have a TTS capable Linotype... yet!
> A Lorenz Lo15? In the USA? Or where are you?
> I have several Lo15, Lo133, Siemens T100, T68 and all that stuff. Some Teletype 32KSR, an ASR, a few ASR33. The Linotype is my first one.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Philipp
> 
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