[GreenKeys] Type Faces Type Pallets and Type Bars

[tony.podrasky]

My first Teletype machine was a working but beat-up Model 15.
It appeared to have been dropped on its face (where all the
vanes and the type basket was). I was afraid of over-bending
some of the arms in the basket so I used my dad's soldering
iron (the one with the huge black handle and heating element
that head the pyramid-like tip) to loosen them pallets and
reposition them.

If you try this, put a piece of aluminum foil under where
you're working so that you don't get solder where it's
not supposed to go.

UE,
K2EAA - TONY
NNNN
ZCZC


On 11/25/2014 06:35 PM, Don Robert House K9TTY wrote:
> In my former U. S. Army Signal Corps Teletypewriter Tool Kit
> (hermetically sealed in 1953) were two soldering irons.
> One was very large and was intended to be used to change the type pallets on the end of the type bars.
> I am wondering if anyone has done this and what they might have used.
>
> Don
> K9TTY
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