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If you want the best work done on this sort of thing, contact:

Klaus Berner
Berner Machine Laboratories
40 West Howard Street
Suite 311
Pontiac, MI 48342

Telephone: (248) 338-6686

Klaus is one of the best "miniature scale" machinists in the country. He also has sensitivity to the artifact (from a museum perspective) and has done projejcts such as recreating an operational exact reproduction of the Edison stock ticker. Give him a call, he can handle this with little difficulty, I'm sure.

John Bowditch

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> From:         Karen Reeds
> Reply To:     Informal Science Education Network
> Sent:         Tuesday, August 3, 2004 9:27 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      advice wanted on restoring Enigma cipher machine ca late 1930s
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> Hi,   8/4/2004
> A colleague is seeking advice about restoring an Enigma cipher
> machine from the late 1930s/early 1940s to working-order for use in
> lectures and demonstrations. Advice about restorers and how to gauge
> their credentials would be very much appreciated (the National
> Cryptological Museum apparently could not help).
> 
> Assuming there's a choice, would you rather go for:
> * a skilled tinkerer who has already worked on other WWII era cipher machines,
>   or
> *a museum conservator who has worked on other machines that combine
> gears/electrical connections but not on cipher machines as such?
> 
> What documentation of the restoration should be required?
> What's the going rate for such work?
> What other questions should the colleague be asking?
> 
> I'll pass along all suggestions.  Many thanks!
> Karen Reeds
> Museum consultant and historian of medicine
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