Virgil,
I know that you are a good man, but I did not know you were a Teletype man! That is a nice clean looking machine inside. I am sure you know you can get any help you need here from people here who know a lot more about 28''s than I do.
I have a 28KSR skintight that is in perfect condition and an ASR that was pretty sad when I bought it. I got the keyboard working then got the printer typing nice even lines. I also had to fix the wiring on the break key and the bell. The TD is fine but the keyboard perforator is very flaky. I also have two KSR's not unlike yours that I am fighting with. There is no heat in my radio building and winter has finally come here in western Pennsylvania. So it will be spring before I can work on them again.
W9DDD,
Instead of modifying my W.U. KSR cabinet in any way, I have mounted a mercury relay on the wall. I am free to patch the coil into any of my loops and the contacts are plugged into the local loop on the W.U. LESU. I know I cannot type into the loop but to me that is preferable to butchering any wiring in the cabinet. Anyway, the spacebar that tried to fix still does not work. Comparing it to a good keyboard, there some parts missing from the spacebar. So I will put the keyboard with the bad spacebar on the W.U. cabinet and the good base in the cabinet the has no LESU. That just leaves me with getting two typing units working.
One of them works but eats nylon gears. I tried to buy a fiber and metal set from Mr. RTTY but he only has the nylon sets. The other typing unit is the one with a stuntbox problem. I guess I will have to pull it off and hope I can get it back on again.
Tom N3CRK
