[GreenKeys] Another 2B follows me home

[Richard Dillman]

>That table looks to me like an ordinary Model 15 table.
>
>Western Union had their own operating tables, most of them fairly large
>because they held the gumming desk used to stick the printer tape on to
>telegram forms, and also other stuff that was needed to operate a circuit.
>I guess there were some smaller tables used in customers' offices, and
>in fact we know of a very compact arrangement where the copyholder also
>served as the gumming desk.
>
>Also I believe in that ancient day the table would have been wood, or
>metal made with angle iron legs, or perhaps tubing legs.  I've seen 
>pictures of a small table for a 2B that had tubing legs and was on 
>casters, so it could be rolled around in the back room of a telegraph
>office.  For angle iron construction see a Model 12 table.  Spoze you
>measure that table and compare the measurements with a Model 15 table.

If anyone has any leads on an available WU gumming table to go along with our newly acquired 2B I'd appreciate hearing about it!  We're trying to replicate the 2B/gumming table setup we see in the historic pictures of KPH.

We're also looking for a moistener for use with the gummed tape from the 2B.

Many Thanks,

RD

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Richard Dillman
Maritime Radio Historical Society
http://www.radiomarine.org
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