[GreenKeys] western union 3b looks like a model 14 maybe it really is? IN...

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ok...ended up  with 2  celluloid  top ones
and  a typing reperf with   green caps.
 
I had a typing reperf  with celluloid   tops was my first  tty  device...
so I guess I will have to switch the key tops out?
 
I have seen the  WU  units  with both types  of  key tops..
 
 
ok on the 3 b brass  tag ( pained over by  a later  wu  green  paint)  it  
says  something about  gumming   on the  tag itself 
 
I will have to look at the  units as  I am not in front of  the  right now! 
( they are  still in the Subaru forester from being  picked up at the truck 
depot. )
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/9/2016 11:11:31 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:

Without  a picture I can't even guess much, but
2B is the Western Union version of  the Model 14.  so far as I know all had
celluloid keytops.  And  the other difference from the standard Model 14 is
that the 2B uses 5/16"  tape rather than 3/8"  I've heard some W.U. 
employee won a big  suggestion award for suggesting that they narrow the
tape by  1/16".

Where space permitted, the 2B sat toward the right end of a  table and
then to it's left was a "gumming desk" which had a clamp to hold  message
blanks, a clip to hold a message number checkoff sheet, and a  curved
part at the back to hold the tape moistener tool.  There was  also a little
box with a felt in it and kept full of water in case extra  moistening
was needed.

Where space did not permit the above, the  cover of the printer was adapted
to serve for gumming the tape.  Maybe  that is a 3B - I  dunno.

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