Hi Pholks:
I am interested in finding out how many of you are also interested in Teletypes...
Teletype Corporation was sold in the 40's, to Western Electric... They produced machines for many years.
Here in Canada, Northern Electric produced teletypes at first. Then Marsland Engineering took over, with production ending with Leigh Instruments. The reason this was done, was that import duties at the time were so high, to import a machine from the US cost twice as much than to buy a Canadian made machine. These were identical in design to the Teletype Corporation machines, and built under license from them.
I have several machines, a Model 28 teletype, an ASR-33, a Leigh KSR-33 (given me in 1984 by Island Tel), a high speed military machine, and have just finished rebuilding an 80 year old Model 15 teletype. These machines are a challenge to work on, but it is very satisfying to get them working again after years of dis-use.
This machine was given to me by Bruce Rosen of Boston and brought to PEI by Paul MacKinnon also of Mass. when he came here on vacation. It was dropped off this past Sunday afternoon.
I have videos of all but the military machine operating on YouTube, and have just added a new video taken this evening after I finished rebuilding the 80 year old model 15:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv9rrd3DYZMPhotos below show the finished project, and below that, two photos of it after degreasing, and before lubrication and repairs.
Love to hear from anyone else interested in teletypes!
Dave