[GreenKeys] M35 in Southern New Hampshire (Craigslist, $1)

[Pete Lancashire]

For me the biggest PITA is the cover, I just pulled one of a 35ASR last
month in the basement.

My best advice, think ahead .. where are you going to put it once you have
it off :-).



On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Ralph Irish <w8roi at wowway.com> wrote:

> *Last month. with a lot of help, I moved a 28ASR out of my basement to the
> garage to be ready to be*
> *picked up by the next owner.  The printer was a 'one handed operation',
> and it sat on a picnic table*
> *until ready for packing in the vehicle.*
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> *The keyboard base was definitely a two hand operation, and it went up the
> stairs and onto the same*
> *table, waiting for the next owner.*
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> *The cabinet went up the stairs on a refrigerator hand truck, the kind
> with heavy straps and a pair of*
> *'helper wheels on belts' to run against the edges of the stair treads.
> Without this item, it would*
> *have been a terrible job to move it  UP  the stairs.  It would have been
> a 'one step at a time' thing,*
> *with a short rest between steps.  I was very glad that my helper owned
> the refrigerator hand truck.*
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> *The 'next owner' arrived about an hour earlier than we had anticipated.
> He made good time on his trip*
> *from northern Kentucky.  We got it all in his vehicle.  I suggested that
> he bring a piece of plywood*
> *on which the printer would be mounted for safety and stability on the
> several hundred mile trip south.*
> *The four holes used to mount the printer to the base were used with some
> 1/4-20 hardware.  I bought*
> *a printer one time and the sender used this method along with some
> stabilizing packing inside the 'very*
> *sturdy' box.  The printer arrived in very good shape.*
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> *The new owner has the machine up and running and seems happy with it.*
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> *As for the 35, I will guess that every corresponding part between the two
> units is a bit heavier than*
> *the 28.  The cabinet looks heavier, although I have never had an occasion
> to lift one or even give one*
> *a simple 'push'.  *
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> *If I were going any distance, near or far, to pick up a Model 35 I would
> want to have a few sturdy*
> *bodies with me.  Better yet, people who are familiar with TELETYPE gear
> in general.  Such people know*
> *that the 'heavy duty' TELETYPE equipment meant for long, continuous
> service are very well built and*
> *that this means weight!*
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> *Model 32s and 33s can usually be handled by two people, probably in one
> piece.  I did move a 32ASR*
> *in the basement of a friend, but not far.  He could have done it by
> himself, but the extra pair of*
> *hands made it easier.*
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> *I hope that the 35 ASR in New Hampshire ends up with a 'GreenKeyer' and
> not in a landfill.*
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> *Ralph - W8ROI*
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> *PS    Tony, did you move the 35KSR in one piece?*
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> *R.*
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> **Yah, yah, - meh-bee if they are girly-men*I carried my 35-KSR from the
> garage, to the patioto work on it - and then back into the garage untilthe
> next time I had time to work on it.Then, I carried it from the patio into
> the living room.Yeah, - I know: a 35-KSR doesn't weigh as much as a
> 35-ASRbut, then again, I only weigh 152 pounds.UE,K2EAA - TONYNNNNZCZCOn
> 11/07/2017 07:28 AM, Wayne Durkee wrote:*
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> *It will also take 4 strong men to load and unload.*
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> *Wayne*
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> *--      Seen on a sweatshirt:      I am a bomb technician.If you see me
> running, try to keep up.*
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