[GreenKeys] Kleinschmidt TT-483/UGC

[Steve Garrison]

Way to go Kevin.  Should have a spring for your connecting bar for the "V" type bar on its way to you soon.

Steve G./N4TTY
Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 19, 2019, at 9:31 PM, Kevin H. Phillips <kh-phillips at 9-5usa.org> wrote:
> 
> About six weeks ago I posted a note about having recently acquired this machine.  It was pretty clean but *very* dry.  It also turned out to have a few broken or missing parts and some bad wiring.  I am happy to say that after a lot of coaching from Steve Garrison, N4TTY, and Tom Kleinschmidt, and some spare parts, and very liberal application of oil and grease, it is at least functioning somewhat.  There is still work to be done.  I don't have much spare time these days so I've had to just do a little bit here and there.  If the video I shot will come through you will notice that the motor is noisy.  I assume the bearings may be bad or going bad.  I re-covered the voltage jumpers on the power supply with heat shrink tubing because the old insulation had become extremely brittle and crumbled to pieces.  It is having some issues with LF which may not show up in this particular video.  Sometimes it will re-type over one line several times. There is a broken return spring on the "V" typebar so sometimes that does not return.  The bias current is not up to what it should be.  The cap on the bias current fuse will not remain screwed down tightly so I am going to replace that at some point. However, I have tried clamping it down and the current is still too low according to the manual.  In the video I am feeding it with loop current from a HAL ST-6 rather than the onboard loop.
> 
> 
> Anyway, just thought I'd give a progress report and express thanks to Steve and Tom for their help thus far.  I'm sure I'll need more!
> 
> 
> 73
> 
> Kevin
> 
> W5TTY
> 
> 
> 
> ---
> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
> https://www.avast.com/antivirus
> <IMG_2246.MOV>
> ______________________________________________________________
> GreenKeys mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/greenkeys
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
> 
> 2002-to-present greenkeys archive: http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/
> 1998-to-2001 greenkeys archive: http://mailman.qth.net/archive/greenkeys/greenkeys.html
> Randy Guttery's 2001-to-2009 GreenKeys Search Tool: http://comcents.com/tty/greenkeyssearch.html
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> Message delivered to steve.n4tty at gmail.com