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This is a perennial topic. Museum putty - or 3M or Gorilla mounting putty works very well.
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However, a better solution I've used for many years allows instant moving or changing of the telegraph instrument on the desk. It is slip-resistant tape, sold my 3M as "Safety Walk" heavy duty anti-slip tread. A small piece of it under each foot of a key will keep it in place. It should be the heavy duty version. This stuff is designed for walkways around swimming pools and such. Since it's thin it won't raise the key very much. Other brands probably will be inferior. My local Ace Hardware sells it in a roll, by the foot, so I buy one foot 3 or 4 inches wide, good for dozens of keys. If you mail order it the price for a 60 foot roll is about $45. Pete WB2QLL -----Original Message-----
From: <[email protected]> Sent: Mar 17, 2024 2:32 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DRAKE-RADIO] Soft Rubber Eqp't Feet Okay, apparently a lot of people are unfamiliar with the undercarriage on Vibroplex keys :-) See the 1st picture attached. From L-R those are the bottom sides of an Iambic, a Vibrokeyer, and a standard bug. There's a lot of stuff going on under there. Double sided tape, gluing on rubber sheets, etc., aren't an option. (And though it probaly won't work here, either, "museum putty" sounds very cool and deserves further exploration. It could be useful for keeping things like watt meters from wandering about.) At the bottom of the 1st pic is the butt side of the road warrior key I put together. Those stick-on bumpers stick like glue! If I could find a taller version of those, I could just remove the feet from all the keys and replace them with the bumpers. I did come up with a workaround for the main offender, though. (See 2nd picture attached.) I found some small stick-on bumpers I had forgotten about. These keep the key nicely stuck to the desk, but they elevate it to where the finger pieces are higher up than I like. It will work for now, but it's not a long term solution. Anyway, still searching ... :-) --lyndon |
