[GreenKeys] Found a Model 26!

[Doug Alderdice]

Greetings all,

I thought I would share with the group my latest find, a Model 26 
Teletype, a model that I previously did not have.  It turned up at our 
radio club's swapfest auction last night.  It was in one of the last 
lots to be sold so folks were tired and wanted to leave and there was 
zero interest in the machine other than me.  There was no reserve on it 
so I got to take it home for the princely sum of one whole dollar.

It's in beautiful condition.  The outside case just has surface dust & 
dirt and the inside is very clean.  The only thing to complain about is, 
in typical ham fashion, the previous owner put in his own wiring for the 
power switch, and re-did the wiring for the break key and keyboard 
distributor so that nothing matches a Bell System schematic on the 
terminal blocks.  Oh, and the wiring to the power switch is 22- or 
24-guage wire ... :/

I bypassed the power wiring in the base and plugged the motor directly 
into an extension cord and figured out where the keyboard and selector 
magnets were and dropped it into the local loop in the house and we were 
off.  I ran an RY tape from my 28ASR and the 26 printed flawlessly.

I put ITTY on the loop and it hung right in there.  The only issue is 
the carriage return is a little slow.  The machine needs a decent lube 
job so I didn't run it too long.

What's further interesting about the machine is the ID plates on the 
cover, base and typing unit are all Postal Telegraph.

I'm attaching two photos of the machine, one of the complete unit and 
one of the ID plate on the base.

There's still neat stuff out there!

73,

Doug, KA2WFT
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