The paint job doesn't bother me much. I had a working 26 that I donated to CHM. Its things like selling the keyboard then expecting to get more the $20 for the remains. My Teletype version of that is a Western Union 2-B in good shape missing all it key caps and motor. Both pulled to sell to the 'steam punk' crowed. BTW not putting them down at all. I've not met one who would do something like that, its the people who think they can make a sale that do the damage. Other examples of things I am collecting, McGraw-Hill Electronics. Finding a 2 foot stack of issues I don't have that have been gutted for their advertisements. Atwater Kent that worked trashed for the cabinet, and a crappy job at that. Could go on for hours of examples.
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, Ed via cctalk wrote: > >> at least they did not glue a bunch of gears on it and call it steam >> punk... >> I have run across weird glued and punked items on ebay... what a >> bunch >> of AH's >> > > a model 026 punch is already a masterpiece of steam punk. > > A model 029, on the other hand, appeals to trekkies. > > > I think that a keypunch rationalized as art needs a clock on it: > http://www.ebay.com/itm/Melting-Clock-DT-/262670473087?hash= > item3d2861577f:g:kE4AAOSwONBZFFUo > > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com > >
