[GreenKeys] WUTco 2B Strip Printer

[Doug Alderdice]

Don et al,

Regarding the UGC-20/77, I believe you are correct, at least my UGC-20 
works with a regular 60 ma loop.  I am told that the UGC-77 is indeed the 
version for Tempest with the photo cells and all that.  Gil had a lot of 
that stuff outlined on his web site, is that still around?  Somewhere on a 
hard drive someplace I have some photos of the internals of UGC-77 that 
another Greenkeyer (forgotten whom now, sorry) sent me once.

As for the typing unit, I guess I have never studied mine closely enough to 
say whether the one in the UGC-20 is any different from those used in full 
size Model 28s.  I'll have to check that out the next time I am puttering 
about with them!  At a glance they look the same, but I have never put one 
side-by-side with the other.

And don't feel too badly about the museum's Model 12, mine isn't currently 
running either.  It is at least all together on the table, but it has a 
number of electrical contact issues on the table and it won't print 
correctly.  It worked when I once hooked it all up with clip leads, so it 
must be the contacts and contact assembly on the table.  The one on mine is 
split and needs to be glued/epoxied/whatever to stabilize that.  The motors 
run and the keyboard/distributor works fine as I can put it in a loop with 
the other machines here and type to them just fine.  Just need some more of 
the four-letter word: TIME.

73,

Doug, KA2WFT


At 05:20 PM 11/26/2007 -0600, Don Robert House wrote:
>Doug,
>
>You make my heart ache for our Model 12 which is in pieces in my
>friends garage in Oceanside, CA.
>
>I am having a mental problem with your write up on the UGC 20.  In my
>head the typing unit had some modifications made to it to fit into the
>case. I think that the standard typing unit would fit in a skintight
>28 KSR but not in a compact 28 KSR.  I remember the side plates and
>platen being positioned differently than standard.
>
>You can also help me a bit with the nomenclature, if I remember
>correctly the UGC 20 has a multi-contact distributor and takes a
>regular 60 milliamp loop.  The same unit with a light distributor for
>TEMPEST use was the UGC-77
>
>Can you verify this?
>
>Thanks,
>Don
>K9TTY
>
>
>On 26 Nov 2007, at 5:11 PM, Doug Alderdice wrote:
>
>There's a pic of one in the carrying case on my web site, 
>http://mysite.verizon.net/dalderdi/telegrph/  second one up from the bottom.
>
>73,
>
>Doug, KA2WFT
>
>
>At 04:55 PM 11/26/2007 -0600, Don Robert House wrote:
>>Western Union 2B Strip Printer based on the Model 14 Typing
>>Reperforator.
>>Uses 5/16 or 3/8 inch wide gummed paper tape for telegrams..
>>I seem to not be able to remember which width, but methinks it is
>>5/16"
>>
>>Don
>>K9TTY
>>
>>
>>
>>On 26 Nov 2007, at 4:10 PM, Larry Tighe wrote:
>>
>>What is a "2B" ( I'll skip the obvious Shakespear :>)
>>
>>lar
>>
>>>I recently cleaned a VERY encrusted 2B printer.