[GreenKeys] Western Union manuals for a 2-B aka 14

Thu Jul 14 05:33:54 EDT 2016

Jim Pruitt - Thanks  for your  tales  with the  2B!  

 Great Prank!

  OK you said..."I never understood why Western  Union used gummed tape 
rather than using page printers and printing telegrams on  that" -----

There are a couple of us here at SMECC museum  project that have wondered 
that  also!

Jim Haynes or  others?  Can you enlighten  us?

Ed Sharpe archivist  for SMECC

In a message dated 7/13/2016 9:40:02 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
jpruitt67 at gmail.com writes:

I am sure I am coming into  this thread blind. I looked at the archives but 
don't see where this thread  started so I will just throw my 2 cents in.

My first rtty setup  consisted of a WU 2B tape printer.  I was in college.  
My roomate  (K7YZN) had a friend that got some of the 2B tape printers from 
Western  Union.  It cost me $100 but I could not find a model 15 and 28's 
were not  readily available cheap yet.  I got several boxes of the small tape 
that  the 2B used.  My roomate and I got in trouble one weekend as we had 
too  much time on our hands.  We stayed up and printed a hole bunch of tapes  
with names and sayings on them and about 3am went around and stuck them on  
each dorm room door.  For some reason,  no one had a clue where they  came 
from.  I had that 2B and ST6 on a Drake 4 line twins for a couple  years 
before I managed to pick up a 32KSR from  Van Zant (W2DLT I think)  for $200.  
The 2B was definitely different.  I never understood why  Western Union used 
gummed tape rather than using page printers and printing  telegrams on that 
but am sure they had valid reasons.

Thank you.

Jim Pruitt

WA7DUY

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Ed Sharpe Archivist  for SMECC via 
GreenKeys <_greenkeys at mailman.qth.net_ (mailto:greenkeys at mailman.qth.net) > wrote:

I remember my  typing reperf tty  made chad and had   typing on the edge of 
the tape. so i have  WU one  hat was in  this  group YEA... now I will need 
 tape for that too   thought it looked wider than the    28 asr tape...

In a message dated 7/13/2016 7:10:05 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 
_jhhaynes at earthlink.net_ (mailto:jhhaynes at earthlink.net)  writes:

So  far as I know the Teletype typing reperforators all use 11/16"  standard
perforator tape, use chadless punching, and that allows  printing on the
tape.  Western Union and Kleinschmidt had some of  their own designs that
used 7/8" tape and printed on the edge of the  tape where there were no
holes.  With Teletype the printing is 6  characters behind the punching,
or is it 6 characters ahead of the  punching?  anyway there is a mark on 
the tape reader gate showing  where to read the tape when the holes are 
over the pins.

Late  Teletype stuff using printing between the feed holes  sometimes.

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