[GreenKeys] really clean M28 Typing Unit

[Jim Cooper]

First off, I feel like I have to apologize 
for having a price on the stuff I'm mentioning 
here, but in reality I have $$ invested in the 
stuff (even if it was a long time ago) and I really 
can't just give away the good stuff ...  trying to 
be reasonable on my askings. 

Now, second, dug some more in the storage area 
and came up with a really, really nice clean M28 
typing unit ... complete, even including the typebox. 
And the felts are NOT hardened up ... nice liquid 
lube on them.  Does not look like this one would need 
any cleanup at all ...   and has a set of cables for loop 
(a genuine red/green Western Union 1/4" plug cable!),
an AC cord and two LP connectors (I presume one 
connector goes on the typing unit, and the other must 
go either to the LESU or the cabinet; I have not 
traced out the cables).  With cables like that, I can 
only suspect this unit was use in a ham setup. 

A little back story might explain some things ...   way 
back in the late 60s and early 70s, Van W2DLT and 
I (then W2BVE) each dabble in buying and selling surplus 
TTY equipment.  We were young (20s) and ambitious. 
Van was really ambitious and made a real business out of it; 
I dabbled more as a hobby.  Looking back, I can't believe 
I used to strap Model 19s onto wooden pallets and take 
them to lock trucking company loading docks for shipment 
COD to other hams, in my little yellow Toyota pickup !! 

Anyway, a lot of what I am extricating from the storage 
garage now was acquired from ITT World Comm (Mackay 
Radio) in NYC, as well as govt. surplus sales and other hams. 
Then along came some "life's complications" and things took 
a turn in another direction, and all this stuff stayed packed 
away in the back of the garage.  Last summer I 'vowed' to 
go through it, but never got around to that.  This year the 
'vow' is starting to be reality.  There's more stuff back 
there, some of it quite nice commercial type stuff from 
"back in the days" ...  anyone know what a TDMS is ?

So that's the story !!   I wish I could just give it away to 
you guys who are diligently working to preserve "the old 
days" but at this point I need to get something back from 
most of it.  

Anyway, this last LP is a beautiful find.   ;))




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