[GreenKeys] M28 cabinets - skin tight vs skin tight

[John, W9DDD]

Some times there's a 2 letter color code on the inside of the cabinet or 
cover as a suffix to the model number as in LPC206BR.  I think you'll 
find that even if the interior is the same color as the outside, it's a 
different finish.  The exterior being more glossy than the inside.  The 
two skin tights I had were gray both in and out.  Perhaps gray was the 
default was gray interior, since I suspect a vast majority of the skin 
tights were gray.  Then if they had an order for something different 
they just kicked it aside to give it the different exterior.

John, W9DDD

On 3/25/2020 1:38 PM, Daniel Jones wrote:
> I love learning new things.  That’s why I am here.
> 
> This whole conversation started when I asked about the cabinet color.  Mine is Tan on the outside but gray on the inside and I was not sure if it was an original color or not.
> 
> Dan K6YIC
> 
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>> On Mar 25, 2020, at 11:17, John, W9DDD <w9ddd at tapr.org> wrote:
>>
>> Sometimes you need to read something several times.
>>
>> The TT-176 style cover is described by Teletype as:
>> Send-Receive Skintight Cover (Rack Mounted)
>>
>> The LPC206 style cover is described as:
>> Send-Receive or Receive-Only Skintight Cover
>> There are 3 part numbers for this cover due to two widths (17 or 17.5") and variation in ventilation holes.  The 17" wide can be used with extended base for an LESU.
>>
>> (Is the horse dead yet>)
>>
>> John, W9DDD
>>
>>> On 3/25/2020 12:58 PM, John, W9DDD wrote:
>>> It has been difficult to wrap one's brain around that series of cabinets (covers?).
>>> In my previous Teletype life I had never heard a label other than skin tight.  (I had a KSR and an RO in bell system gray which I suspect may have come from the Chicago Board of Trade)
>>> Coming back into it and doing a lot of reading before having any machines, I kept seeing terms like compact and rack mount as well. And this is just in the Teletype literature.
>>> And then recently I realized that skintight can be either 17 or 17.5" wide.  That may be where the rack mount term came into the picture.
>>> So I like to use only the term skin tight for LPC206 like cover/cabinets.  (is it a cover or a cabinet?)
>>> So then we see compacts like AN/UGC-20/25 and TT-176.  As near as I can tell both of those get the compact label, but you can also find reference to these as skin tight.  And I see the TT-176 labeled as rack mount also.
>>> Did I make it more confusing?  I'm not sure even Teletype was consistent.
>>> John, W9DDD
>>>> On 3/25/2020 12:36 PM, Nick England wrote:
>>>> If you are lucky, you learn something new every day.
>>>>
>>>> As a result of conversing with Dan Jones about his 28KSR, I looked up info on
>>>> the two styles of Model 28 skin tight (rack mount) cabinet - See 573-134-801TC
>>>>
>>>> I hadn't come across a photo or info on a US Navy KSR version using
>>>> the LPC206BR cover before, but there were indeed both Navy RO (TT-306/UG)
>>>> and KSR (TT-307/UG) units.
>>>> http://www.navy-radio.com/tty/ro/tt306-ro-1611-01.jpg
>>>> http://www.navy-radio.com/tty/ksr/28ksr-skintight.jpg
>>>>
>>>> There's also the LPC202BR skin tight cover as used on the TT-176/UG
>>>> http://www.navy-radio.com/tty/ksr/tt176-01.jpg
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Nick England K4NYW
>>>> www.navy-radio.com <http://www.navy-radio.com>
>>>>
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