4 Jun
2025
4 Jun
'25
5:34 a.m.
Most hammers are mush and need to be replaced. If you have an original
hammer you risk damaging the print cylinder
On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM Mike Katz via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Thank you.
The hammer is intact and seems to be usable for now.
I have joined the greenkeys mailing list and I waiting for my message
there to be approved.
I have also contected the RTTY king about the parts.
On 6/3/2025 3:12 PM, Michael Thompson via cctalk wrote:
>
> Also, don’t try to print without the rubber print hammer, the typeface
> metal is softer than the metal of the print hammer, and without the
rubber
> hammer in place you will quickly flatten out
the letters. A small piece
of
vinyl
tubing can work as a temporary substitute.
Frank
The people on the Greenkeys forum
<https://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/greenkeys> have remade the TTY
hammers.