Transporting an LGP-30

I worked just a little bit on a Bendix G-15, a machine from about the same vintage. 300 vacuum tubes, about 3000 silicon (I think) diodes, and a drum. Really, there are so MANY parts in a machine of that vintage that would be really tough to get, it could be an incredible project to get it running. The G-15 had an IBM executive typewriter modded as the console, with a box of about 50 telephone relays as the decode/encode matrix, driven by thyratron tubes. Our drum came pre-scored, I think 3 tracks were grooved down to the brass layer. They had REALLY poor sealing of the drum. Part of it was very good, but several large wire bundles came in through a drawn aluminum cover with caterpillar grommets. So, no attempt to seal the drum at all, therefore lots of dirt got in and packed under the fixed heads. Hopefully your LGP-30 has a better arrangement there. But, lots of connectors, tube sockets, and similar parts may be hard to get, not to mention the number of marginal tubes that you might need to replace. I know on the Bendix G-15 the logic was really convoluted, to save tubes. So, they chained several layers of and and or gates together before an amplifying tube, to do as much logic as possible with each tube. Then, of course, you'd need to resurrect some bit of software to do anything meaningful. Wow, sounds like a big project. Jon