Keypunch that was on eBay

[Randy Dawson]

Its going to work just fine.

My opinion, its only a squirrel cage motor, and from what I've seen of IBM, a failrly hefty one.

Go for it.

We all know you will do it anyway, minutes after its off the truck

:)

Randy

> From: roger.holmes at microspot.co.uk
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 20:19:10 +0100
> Subject: Keypunch that was on eBay
> 
> Thanks for whoever it was who posted the info on the IBM 029 keypunch  
> on eBay. I have won it, nobody else bid. After it has been shipped  
> across the Atlantic I will have to think about converting it from 60Hz  
> to 50Hz. I have the remains of a 50Hz verifier which has a 240v / 50Hz  
> motor I should be able to use. Hopefully the rest runs on DC, so a  
> step down transformer before the transformers and bridge rectifiers  
> might be enough. Shipping costs more than the item of course.
> 
> Anyone have any thoughts if it is worth trying the whole thing with  
> just a 240 - 110 transformer? If the motor burns out, not the end of  
> the world.
> 
> 

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