[GreenKeys] Any source for 7/8” tape?

[Peter Gottlieb]

I don’t blame you for hiding from the snow and cold. Today I woke up to 15 F and that’s too cold for me to go out and chip away at the ice around the shelter or do anything in it. 

I’m not in a great rush and could easily wait a month. The tape reader may take thinner tape but the only way I can punch it is with the other part of the machine and I believe that only takes 7/8” as you say. 

Many many years ago I was friendly with the guys at a Western Union repair office and they would “not see” us take surplus equipment that was supposed to go to the scrap yard. Anything decent they placed carefully rather than threw onto the heap. There was lots of Teletype but they had close to divine respect for Kleinschmidt gear and kept all of that. This was in White Plains NY. 

I am not too familiar with the different Kleinschmidt models, but knew that’s who made that machine, and when I searched online found a brochure which gave the model number. I should probably be calling it the TT-76 as my unit did come with the shelter. 

By the way, my intent is to keep the shelter as a time capsule, as original as possible. 

I have run the tape reader and it prints out to the 74B, but haven’t yet run the typing perforater yet. Perhaps when the ambient temperature reaches my minimum operating limit. At that time I may be asking for more assistance!  My only experience is from a very long time ago, ASR33 days and playing with a 2B tape printer (which I still have!).


Peter
KB2VTL


> On Feb 19, 2019, at 9:13 AM, Duncan Brown <duncanancy at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Peter,
> 
> I may have a couple of rolls I could give you, but I'm down south (hiding from the snow & cold) and won't be home until next month.
> 
> The TT-76 will take the smaller tape in the tape reader. Some of the KLI stand-alone reperfs (TT-107 family) would take both types of tape, send & receive, but I don't think that they ever modified the TT-76 to do that.
> 
> You referred to  "Kleinschmidt 120 typing reperf " as opposed to the military name "TT-76".  Was the "model 120" more familiar to you? Did you use it in a commercial application?  (I have  a lot of interest in the KLI products)
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Duncan Brown, K2OEQ
> USASA    31J30
> 
> Antique Wireless Assoc. Museum,
>   Asst. Curator, Commercial Equipment
> (also chief TTY op & repairman)
> 
> www.antiquewireless.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 2/18/2019 15:32, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I just rejoined this group, and now have more TTY gear to play with. One item is a Kleinschmidt 120 typing reperf and tape reader in my new GRC-142 shelter.
>> 
>> It has half a roll of paper tape in it but I will go through that and was wondering if there is any source for a couple of rolls of that 7/8” tape anywhere.
>> 
>> This is going to be fun to get going.
>> 
>> Peter
>> KB2VTL
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