I'm not expecting to be updating this daily or weekly even, but I will try to avoid it becoming another abandoned blog. [you know the sort 3 weeks of the owner posting about what he had for breakfast, then nothing :-) ]
I recently added two more morse keys to my small collection, both are in need of restoration and one is quite scarce and might be of interest to others so I figured I could document its restoration.
The keys are a "Standard Radio" dated from about 1943 and manufactured for the "US Army Air Corps" bug in fair to poor condition, its main spring is bust and its sporting unoriginal paint, however it appears to all be there and should be restorable to a fine example.
Less than 40 of these keys exist, and Fred KT5X has done some wonderful work researching and documenting this bug, I'd like to thank him for his work on this!
Freds page on the Standard Radio bug
The other Key I've obtained is a Vibroplex Zephyr, I've always liked the narrower base Vibroplex keys and I already have a nice 67 Blue Racer deluxe, the Zephyr is a bit rarer but not uncommon.
Again this key needs work, the spring has been butchered in this key also, I'm guessing to slow it down? I'll inspect this and decide what to do, most likely I'll put in a new main spring etc, and tidy it up cosmetically.
The finger pieces will be put back to orignal spec. and the base, I'll attempt to restore keeping as much of original crinkle finish paint as I can.
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