[GreenKeys] Re: Model 28 Compact

[Don Robert House]

Is the glass half empty or half full?

With the side plates cut down the platen appears to be higher up...

Don




On 26 Nov 2007, at 6:45 PM, wa2hwj at att.net wrote:

The 28 typing unitin the Compact has cut-down side plates and the

bell mounted on the left sideplate. I don't recall the platen being

anywhere but in its normal location. Moving that would cause all sorts

of frontplate changes, etc.


Jack WA2HWJ




-------------- Original message from Doug Alderdice <ka2wft at arrl.net>:  
--------------


 > 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 M odel 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:
 > & gt;
 > >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 VER Y encrusted 2B printer.
 >
 >
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