[GreenKeys] M28 cabinets - skin tight vs skin tight

[Daniel Jones]

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This whole conversation started when I asked about the cabinet color.  Mine is Tan on the outside but gray on the inside and I was not sure if it was an original color or not.  

Dan K6YIC

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> On Mar 25, 2020, at 11:17, John, W9DDD <w9ddd at tapr.org> wrote:
> 
> Sometimes you need to read something several times.
> 
> The TT-176 style cover is described by Teletype as:
> Send-Receive Skintight Cover (Rack Mounted)
> 
> The LPC206 style cover is described as:
> Send-Receive or Receive-Only Skintight Cover
> There are 3 part numbers for this cover due to two widths (17 or 17.5") and variation in ventilation holes.  The 17" wide can be used with extended base for an LESU.
> 
> (Is the horse dead yet>)
> 
> John, W9DDD
> 
>> On 3/25/2020 12:58 PM, John, W9DDD wrote:
>> It has been difficult to wrap one's brain around that series of cabinets (covers?).
>> In my previous Teletype life I had never heard a label other than skin tight.  (I had a KSR and an RO in bell system gray which I suspect may have come from the Chicago Board of Trade)
>> Coming back into it and doing a lot of reading before having any machines, I kept seeing terms like compact and rack mount as well. And this is just in the Teletype literature.
>> And then recently I realized that skintight can be either 17 or 17.5" wide.  That may be where the rack mount term came into the picture.
>> So I like to use only the term skin tight for LPC206 like cover/cabinets.  (is it a cover or a cabinet?)
>> So then we see compacts like AN/UGC-20/25 and TT-176.  As near as I can tell both of those get the compact label, but you can also find reference to these as skin tight.  And I see the TT-176 labeled as rack mount also.
>> Did I make it more confusing?  I'm not sure even Teletype was consistent.
>> John, W9DDD
>>> On 3/25/2020 12:36 PM, Nick England wrote:
>>> If you are lucky, you learn something new every day.
>>> 
>>> As a result of conversing with Dan Jones about his 28KSR, I looked up info on
>>> the two styles of Model 28 skin tight (rack mount) cabinet - See 573-134-801TC
>>> 
>>> I hadn't come across a photo or info on a US Navy KSR version using
>>> the LPC206BR cover before, but there were indeed both Navy RO (TT-306/UG)
>>> and KSR (TT-307/UG) units.
>>> http://www.navy-radio.com/tty/ro/tt306-ro-1611-01.jpg
>>> http://www.navy-radio.com/tty/ksr/28ksr-skintight.jpg
>>> 
>>> There's also the LPC202BR skin tight cover as used on the TT-176/UG
>>> http://www.navy-radio.com/tty/ksr/tt176-01.jpg
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nick England K4NYW
>>> www.navy-radio.com <http://www.navy-radio.com>
>>> 
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