4 Jun
2025
4 Jun
'25
10:10 a.m.
I have some rubber gasket material, maybe I could double it up and us
that. Or just glue it to the existing pad (1 thick)
The pad seems pretty hard and I've printed a few lines on it and it
didn't explode.
On 6/4/2025 11:05 AM, William Sudbrink via cctalk wrote:
Tony Duell wrote:
Some years ago I was given a box of new ASR33
spare parts (A random
selection, by no means every part). There were some rubber hammer caps
in there. Although they were packed in sealed plastic bags, they have all
turned to Evil Goo now,
Alternatively, I once got a KSR 33. It was guaranteed to
be in perfect condition.
It certainly looked it. Before powering it up, I even stuck my thumbnail into the
cap to check if it was ok. It _seemed_ to be. I attached it to a modern computer
with a current loop/232 converter and sent it some text. The cap immediately
exploded into bits. Grains of sand size. I yanked the power cord on the TTY and
avoided any real damage to the type cylinder but I will never trust an old cap
again. I use plumbing faucet washers, held in place with shrink tube.
Bill S.