[GreenKeys] URA-17 [schematic]

[Randy or Sherry Guttery]

I've received a some comments about the URA-17 schematic...

Ideally - we'll find an original that can be scanned (whole manual, 
eventually) - which will (IMHO) provide a much better result - with no 
where near the work required to "reconstruct" the schematic I have.  My 
intention was to provide "something" that was usable until a more proper 
solution was found. "Something" being better than nothing.

With that in mind - a couple of comments:

First - please understand this is a 30+ year-old photocopy. "Back in the 
day" the photocopiers we had aboard ship weren't very good - if working 
at all. They weren't "flat bed" - you had to feed the original "through" 
the machine - which meant that these large - fold-out schematics had to 
be "folded" and copied in sections - the copies then taped together. Not 
a pretty process.

Second - what I have is a 30+ year old photocopy. Made the way it was - 
it's quality isn't good to begin with - and while it hasn't faded much - 
the paper certainly has yellowed some - the tape much more, even under 
an illuminated magnifier - parts are impossible to read - and none of it 
is really very good...

I used a good (not great) scanner to make the scans - scan*s* because 
it's only capable of 8.5 X 14... so this foldout oversize schematic took 
four scans. Using the Photoshop 8 component of Adobe Creative Suite - I 
combined the four scans into one. Needless to say - the resulting image 
file is huge.

With my original goal in mind of supplying a "stop-gap" solution - I 
cleaned up the schematic, replaced much of the unreadable text - 
compressed it down to a more practical download size of 11Mb (jpg) and 
uploaded it for anyone needing something of a schematic.

Apparently this has disappointed some.

So - The original .raw and original .tif files are now uploaded on my 
site (or will as soon as the uploads finish - at these file sizes it's 
going to take a while - even on my DSL.)

http://www.comcents.com/ura17.raw
http://www.comcents.com/ura17.jpg

Have at 'em.  Anyone/everyone has my permission to download them and use 
them for their own, private use. Clean, tweak and have a ball.

Just FYI - these file are BOTH well over 300Mbs each...

best regards...
-- 
randy guttery

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