Ok ok! Everyone had good ideas. The comments on paper flow made me look more carefully at that situation and the slot in the rear. Inside the ASR cabinet this is mounted below that paper slot…
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and you can kind of see two slots in the top of this angled metal. Turns out the piece I was questioning, the studs fit perfectly into the slots on this thing beneath the paper slot.
So now I remember what this was. It mounts inside the cabinet to close up the paper slot when it isn’t being used. But it is removable (as I have done) when the slot is used. Mystery solved.
And interesting about the use of that slot, apparently for fan-fold paper as input to the ASR.
Thanks everyone! I keep inching closer to getting this whole thing up and running
From: W2HX
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 7:36 PM
To: Greenkeys <[email protected]>
Subject: A few things, questions and comments
First, anyone recognize this piece of metal? It was inside my 28ASR and is painted the right color. But I can’t figure out where it came from or where it goes?
https://w2hx.com/x/TTY/misc/20221128_181413.jpg
https://w2hx.com/x/TTY/misc/20221128_181419.jpg
Second, I can definitely recommend every few years to open up the bottom of your 28ASR and see what you stored in there and long forgot about! I opened mine up today after about 10 years and found somethings I thought I had lost long ago.
Including the reel from a motorized paper tape take up unit. I thought it was long lost from a time when I rented the machine to a TV production. I
https://w2hx.com/x/TTY/misc/20221128_192622.jpg
Next thing I found was this wooden switch thingy I made probably 13 years ago to switch the transmitter from receive to transmit and also put the ST-6 into STANDBY mode to keep current flowing regardless of any audio input it might receive.
That will get reinstalled until I can do something nicer.
https://w2hx.com/x/TTY/misc/20221128_192914.jpg
Third, I noticed there is a slot in the rear of both my ASR and KSR that appears to be for paper?
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https://w2hx.com/x/TTY/misc/20221128_193202.jpg
What is this used for? Is it used for paper to leave the machine or enter it? Anyone ever make use of this arrangement?
73 Eugene W2HX
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