[GreenKeys] A KS-series tool I wish I had

[Steve Garrison]

I used to have one of those, but don't remember it being called a peach
stick.  I had one in my tools from the military, but also had one in tool
kit I had at one time after getting out of the service.  In fact I might
still have it somewhere, but haven't seen or used it in years.  Will now
start tearing the place apart to find it! :-)

Steve G./N4TTY

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From: GreenKeys [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
Jones, Douglas W
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:21 PM
To: greenkeys
Subject: [GreenKeys] A KS-series tool I wish I had

One of the tools I picked up when I worked at Bell Labs 40 years ago was a
peach stick.  Yes, a stick made of peach wood, but lovingly crafted by
gnomes somewhere, with one end tapered to a flat spatula, the other end
tapered to a blunt point.  In the center, it had a KS number.  It always
struck me as one of the lowest-tech tools, yet is was just right for prying
into bundles of wires without posing any threat to the insulation.

Sadly, at some point, I pried into something too hard, and broke the stick.
I'd love to find a new one, in part because it's just the right tool to use
to poke around in an old wire-wrapped backplane to try to reverse engineer
the various modifications people made to it.  Does anyone have one?
Does anyone remember the KS number?  Does anyone have the dimensions?

(From memory, my guess is that it was 8 inches long, and about 1/4 inch
diameter.  The middle cylindrical section was about 3 inches long, tapering
down to a 1/16 inch diameter spherical point on one end and a 1/32 inch
thick flat on the other end, rounded to 1/8 inch radius and all polished to
a high shine.)

		Doug Jones
		jones at cs.uiowa.edu
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