[GreenKeys] Kleinschmidt

[steve.n4tty at gmail.com]

I might even have one around here to send your way!

 

Steve G./N4TTY

 

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On Behalf Of W2HX
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2023 1:47 PM
To: Greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [GreenKeys] Kleinschmidt

 

K4NYW's recent post about some KL equipment available really piqued my
curiosity. Thanks to Duncan, I've been doing some research on these
machines. Navy-radio.com has a catalog from 1970 and I was really blown away
by the expanse of the catalog. I've never really known anything about these
machines other than they were a competitor to teletype, got a lot of
military contracts and used 7/8" tape. Not much else. On this last point, I
know that paper tape has always been an issue for owners of these machines. 

 

But as I began to look through this catalog, I kept seeing the same sentence
for tape-related machines and it really got me curious, "Standard roll,
7/8-lnch with edge printing, or 11/16-inch non-printing." And many machines
had this additional sentence right after the first, "Reperforator may be
readily modified for center (over feed holes) printing."

 

While I didn't do an exhaustive review, I could not find any tape-related
machine in this 60-page catalog that did not mention using both 7/8 and
11/16. 

 

So, it begs the question. Have any owners of KL equipment on this list ever
made the necessary adjustments to support 11/16ths paper? If anyone has done
this, it would seem to be a great benefit to the KL machine owners to
publish the procedure.

 

And now I have a hankerin' for a KL reperf!

 

73 Eugene W2HX
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