[GreenKeys] Need a UGC-136 teleprinter (or 46) ?

[Eric Moore]

Yes, if someone has 10k to commit I will handle logistics.

2k for purchase
1k for storage
1k for local agent
2k for transport to storage
4k to ship 46 units out

May be underestimating on the shipping, that is to manage it all from
Chicago.

Short of that, lets cross our fingers.

-Eric

On Tue, May 13, 2025, 10:05 AM Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Three things to consider.
> Heavy to ship
> No 45 baud
> No ribbon cartridges available except what might be in the printers
> already. I can supply one for someone to 3D model/print.
>
> Two years ago I gave a USN supply officer a batch of used ribbons to
> re-ink for the missile subs still using UGC-136.
>
> That said, they are beautiful machines and it would be a shame for them to
> get scrapped.
>
> I’d be happy to get another.
>
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM Eric Moore <mooreericnyc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The storage/transport/distribution will cost more than the teleprinters.
>>
>> I have done this before with terminals, whoever does this, if anyone
>> does, is a mensch, and I will take 2 😂
>>
>> I am surprised though we have no greenkeyers near vegas. I know a guy I
>> think is there who would help.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>> On Mon, May 12, 2025, 11:47 PM Jordan Spencer Cunningham <js at teletype.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If anybody has a good storage place within a few hundred miles on the
>>> way back or in northern Utah and is willing to help me play distributor,
>>> I'd be up for covering part or all costs with the understanding that I'd
>>> break even again by selling the machines over time. I could likely go down
>>> there and pick it up and deliver to your warehouse on the way back home,
>>> too. I could take maybe as much as one pallet home to store and distribute
>>> myself, along with one machine for my own collection.
>>>
>>> I just don't have room for eight pallets for indefinite storage myself.
>>> I would love the adventure of saving them, though. I wish I had a warehouse
>>> to rescue machines and give them a temporary home until someone else comes
>>> along. Land out here these days is stupid expensive for how crappy it is.
>>> Alas.
>>>
>>> Assuming I'd need a 20 foot truck and they can load up with a forklift
>>> for me, it'd be around $800 for the truck plus around $250 in gas and
>>> around $300 to fly down there and get myself to the warehouse. Add a 15%
>>> transaction fee on top of selling price (that's what the listing says).
>>> That puts the average cost per machine about $90 before shipping to
>>> whomever wants them, assuming no other unexpected costs of acquisition.
>>>
>>> Of course, if they drop the price more or are willing to sell for a bit
>>> more than what they could scrap it for, might be worth waiting.
>>>
>>> -
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>>> On Mon, May 12, 2025, at 7:14 PM, Ethan Blanton via GreenKeys wrote:
>>>
>>> W2HX wrote:
>>> > if anyone decides to buy them. maybe we could get some commitments of
>>> > interest. I'd be interested.
>>>
>>> For sure, I'd be in for a couple; I'd be willing to pay the rate
>>> they're asking, but shipping 8 500lbs pallets to WNY is going to be
>>> problematic.  ;-)
>>>
>>> I sure hope they don't go to scrap, that's a neat device.
>>>
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