Month: June 2007

One of my recent eBay winnings arrived today, my 1945 Vibroplex Zephyr. The Zephyr is one of the rarer Vibroplex keys, though most people who see one will assume it is a Champion — a […]

The 1922 Vibroplex Original I mentioned a couple of posts ago seems to be hanging around my operating position. I've disassembled the key and cleaned and polished the metal parts, and while worn through to […]

Yeah, maybe I'm being too much of a fussbudget about it, but how hard is it to properly pack something for shipment?? After gleefully breaking my own campaign promise of “No New Vibroplexes,” I was […]

I've done a little cleanup work on that old Telegraph Apparatus Co. bug I won on eBay last month. The TAC bug is the McElroy/Hallicrafters consortium that built keys during and after World War II. […]