The interesting thing this particular machine is original wiring and is a regular plain old stock 28 ASR WU Telex
I just made a modified typebox for it.... And its easily changed back to stock.
The inspiration, I have a Model 37 it is Upper and Lower case so I had asked Paul "Mr Rtty" about the chances for
some 37 lowercase type pallets. He came up with 2 different sets (two different fonts) for a Model 40
The pallets are functionally the same as the 28, 37 and 35... Anyhow the 40 pallets some have
spring holes and some do not. To make them fully compatible with the 28 I had to make the
holes in them to make them work in a 28typebox.
That was the hard part!! I made a jig to drill the hole in the pallets. To drill the hole in the hardened pallet
I first used a #0 dental burr and coolant at about 10K rpm the problem with that was after 2 pallets the burr was junk
So I switched to a carbide fisher burr (another dental bit) and that was the golden ticket that blew thru the pallets
like a hot knife thru butter and it didn't care about coolant either.
And Paul Heller a big THANKS for the photos to make/3D Print the Teletype cover part for the Punch!!!!
I got the majority of the pictures sorted out in Blender to make the 3D model I just need to do some cleanup to make it better
It’s interesting to watch where this hobby is going. It’s like old cars. Some are restored to original factory specs. Others are custom modified. We have 3D printed items to replace unobtanium parts, software defined terminal units/modems with build in motor control, changing uppercase to lowercase, creative solutions for loop supplies, plug and play adapters and more (I’m certainly not intending to leave anyone out!). We even saw a model 15 hooked to an 8 bit computer!
I’m personally a fan for restoring to factory specs but certainly welcome those with creativity and skills to do things I can’t. It makes our hobby stronger, generates interest and brings in more people. I can’t wait to see what some of you come up with next.
Carry on!
Paul
W2TTY
> On Jul 11, 2022, at 3:30 PM, Joe Duszyński <joeduszynski1@gmail.com> wrote:
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> My weekend project of making a lowercase typebox for a Model 28
> for giggles.
> For those not in the i-Telex German group Telexforum.de most of the foreign machines I've come to see are are lower case and I've had a few penpal/telexpal's tell me they were surprised to see ALL CAPS on the American machines when their machines are ALL Lowercase. This would happen when I would send them a picture of their Telex on my machine.
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> LOL well no more surprise! I now have a lowercase 28 box! LOL!
> Just need to adjust the text up just a tad so the decenders on some of the characters show up a bit darker.
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