----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Allison To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 8:20 AM Subject: RE: [Elecraft] vibroplex bug
Chris, My wife got the bug bug, the straight key bug, the iambic key bug... fairly recently too. She is a dedicated but fairly slow cw operator as well and keeps a 1960 vintage vibroplex, a blackwidow iambic and a modern russian knockoff of the world war II Junkers german key all tied to her K2 at the same time. She's also got 3 or 4 more bugs, mostly Vibroplex. One can buy weights for the Vibroplex to slow it down and I think she's got 2 weights on her regular key. One of the keys had a 4-40 screw hole tapped in the side of the weight. It was explained that this used to be done by some operators that installed a copper tube, squashed and drilled, to provide an extra weight as a lever that could be used to immediately change speeds by pushing the top outward or inward - without having to loosen the weight screw, position the weight and then tightening the weight screw down again. best regards, Charles wb5izd Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:08:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Kantarjiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Elecraft] vibroplex bug To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I got the bug bug about a year ago, and found a 1923 Vibroplex in decent shape. Yeah, the dot rate is way too fast to learn with. After exploring many options for slowing it, I went to a local hobby shop and got a bit of brass tubing that has an ID that is a slip fit over the rod. About 6" did it for me - slows the dots right down and still allows me to do some adjusting. 73 de chris K6DBG _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
