Monroe electromechanical calculators

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 09:21 -0700, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: Thanks - that looks like a nice site! We've got 'user' manuals for some of our other Monroe machinces (which thinking about it are from the days where perhaps they do give instructions for critical oil points and other useful info). Unfortunately I haven't found anything for this particular Monroe yet... Externally it looks similiar - that one appears to be a slightly later model (the one I have here has a few less buttons across the bottom). I expect the 'core' is the same on both machines though. The carriage certainly looks identical. I think I'll drop the guy an email and see if he has any tips for cleaning the mechanism (such as just leaving the whole mechanical bit in an oil bath for a few weeks or something!). For normal mechanical things I completely dismantle them, clean / fix individual parts, then reassemble - but this thing's really a bit *too* complicated for that approach (without me having experience of working on simpler versions of such machines first anyway) cheers Jules