[GreenKeys] Need a UGC-136 teleprinter (or 46) ?
steve shumaker
shumaker at att.net
Tue May 13 11:19:56 EDT 2025
I'd commit to a unit.
Steve
On 5/13/25 8:05 AM, Nick England wrote:
> Three things to consider.
> Heavy to ship
> No 45 baud
> No ribbon cartridges available except what might be in the printers
> already. I can supply one for someone to 3D model/print.
>
> Two years ago I gave a USN supply officer a batch of used ribbons to
> re-ink for the missile subs still using UGC-136.
>
> That said, they are beautiful machines and it would be a shame for
> them to get scrapped.
>
> I’d be happy to get another.
>
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com <http://www.navy-radio.com>
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM Eric Moore <mooreericnyc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The storage/transport/distribution will cost more than the
> teleprinters.
>
> I have done this before with terminals, whoever does this, if
> anyone does, is a mensch, and I will take 2 😂
>
> I am surprised though we have no greenkeyers near vegas. I know a
> guy I think is there who would help.
>
> -Eric
>
> On Mon, May 12, 2025, 11:47 PM Jordan Spencer Cunningham
> <js at teletype.net> wrote:
>
> If anybody has a good storage place within a few hundred miles
> on the way back or in northern Utah and is willing to help me
> play distributor, I'd be up for covering part or all costs
> with the understanding that I'd break even again by selling
> the machines over time. I could likely go down there and pick
> it up and deliver to your warehouse on the way back home, too.
> I could take maybe as much as one pallet home to store and
> distribute myself, along with one machine for my own collection.
>
> I just don't have room for eight pallets for indefinite
> storage myself. I would love the adventure of saving them,
> though. I wish I had a warehouse to rescue machines and give
> them a temporary home until someone else comes along. Land out
> here these days is stupid expensive for how crappy it is. Alas.
>
> Assuming I'd need a 20 foot truck and they can load up with a
> forklift for me, it'd be around $800 for the truck plus around
> $250 in gas and around $300 to fly down there and get myself
> to the warehouse. Add a 15% transaction fee on top of selling
> price (that's what the listing says). That puts the average
> cost per machine about $90 before shipping to whomever wants
> them, assuming no other unexpected costs of acquisition.
>
> Of course, if they drop the price more or are willing to sell
> for a bit more than what they could scrap it for, might be
> worth waiting.
>
> -
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> On Mon, May 12, 2025, at 7:14 PM, Ethan Blanton via GreenKeys
> wrote:
>> W2HX wrote:
>> > if anyone decides to buy them. maybe we could get some
>> commitments of
>> > interest. I'd be interested.
>>
>> For sure, I'd be in for a couple; I'd be willing to pay the rate
>> they're asking, but shipping 8 500lbs pallets to WNY is going
>> to be
>> problematic. ;-)
>>
>> I sure hope they don't go to scrap, that's a neat device.
>>
>> Ethan
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