[GreenKeys] The most annoying part of Teletype restoration.

Fri Dec 18 15:36:07 EST 2020

John --

I have waxed lacing if you can't find your ball.  Just let me know how many
feet you want and I'll put it into the mail to you.

Paul, ad7i

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:06 AM John, W9DDD <w9ddd at tapr.org> wrote:

> Lacing:
>
> I also considered that.  I probably have a ball of it somewhere here.
> For now this was just a case of removing some modifications on an FAA
> cabinet.  They added two lamps to indicate various kinds of status. I
> just want to remove the wires from the lower part of the cabinet and
> leave the lamp wiring as is.  I had a couple of cables hanging from the
> dome that I just wanted to coil up and tie wrap out of the way.  The
> stiff tubing didn't allow coiling, even cracking in places.  I ended up
> cutting the tubing off so I could coil up the wires (4 or 5).
>
> So far I haven't had the printer and keyboard cables so stiff they won't
> get where they belong, I think lacing might the the proper way to go.
> I've never seen lacing crack.
>
> John, W9DDD
>
> On 12/18/2020 2:48 AM, Clay Archer wrote:
> > I would lace it up with waxed string.  That was a common way of dressing
> > wires, especially on military electronic equipment.    This would let
> > you see the multi-colored wires where it would be hidden with the spiral
> > tubing.  If done correctly it looks really cool.
> >
> > *From:*greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> > [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] *On Behalf Of *Ralph Irish
> > *Sent:* Thursday, December 17, 2020 3:11 PM
> > *To:* w9ddd at tapr.org
> > *Cc:* greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> > *Subject:* Re: [GreenKeys] The most annoying part of Teletype
> restoration.
> >
> > *John*
> >
> > *Unless one is shooting for 'authenticity' in the looks inside one of
> > their 28 Teletype Cabinets,*
> >
> > *I think that the 'spiral wrap' is a great idea.  It would be
> > perpetually 'flexible' compared to*
> >
> > *anything that would clean the surfaces of the tubing now in use.  If I
> > were in the process of*
> >
> > *'rehabing' any 28 whose LESU cables were 'extra stiff', and very dirty,
> > the 'spiral wrap' idea*
> >
> > *would take 'top choice'. *
> >
> > *Think in 5 and 10 year increments:  Where will my Model 28ASR be in
> > five years?  Ten years?  No*
> >
> > *way to really know, and the 'spiral wrap' would be just as easy to work
> > with then as now, if it*
> >
> > *were to be implemented. *
> >
> > *Just a thought here from one of the 'older' G/K people.*
> >
> > *Thanks for your hard work and contributions to the G/K network.*
> >
> > *73,*
> >
> > *Ralph*
> >
> > *-   -   -   -   -   -   -   -*
> >
> > *On Dec 16, 2020, at 8:08 PM, w9ddd at tapr.org <mailto:w9ddd at tapr.org>
> wrote:*
> >
> > *
> >
> > *
> >
> > *I just spent  the better part of two days removing unneeded
> > modifications to a 28 KSR cabinet and LESU.  The greasy stuff that
> > 'grows' on the surface of the tubing attracts dirt like an magnet or
> > turns white. Then some of the tubing gets brittle as it ages.  So
> > nothing wants to  bend where it needs to go when flipping the LESU.
> >
> > The tubing on a small bundle of wires for was so brittle I ended up
> > being able to remove it by cracking it in several places.
> >
> > With the dirt that was on the tubing, my hands ended up dirtier than the
> > time I changed the timing chain on a Mopar 318.
> >
> > So what techniques  have folks used to fix these problems in a way the
> > looks authentic.
> > I could see using a spiral wrap, but that wouldn't look right.  Using
> > new tubing more closely matching original almost guarantee needing to
> > remove connectors.
> >
> > Ideas?
> >
> >
> > John, W9DDD
> >
> >
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