4 Nov
2004
4 Nov
'04
12:35 a.m.
At 02:26 PM 11/4/04 +0000, you wrote:
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 09:02 -0500, Joe R. wrote:
At least one of these still has the belt on it. But I know that it's
probably shot so I'm planning on taking it off and taking it to a
industrial belting place and see if they can matrch it up with something
more modern. I was able to find belts there for the HP-85 so they seem to
have a good selection.
Anybody have any experience with using that on
electromechanical stuff?
Any sugggestions?
No, but let me know how you get on. We've got a Flexowriter what we want
to hook up to our Marconi at some point (as it had one way back when).
The only viable one we have is complete and OK cosmetically, but in need
of a complete strip down and rebuild.
I
thought I'd remove the platen and belt on the RH side and any other rubber
parts that I could see. Does anyone know if there are any parts inside the
Flexowriters that should be removed first?
I've heard before that the belts are prone to failure - if you find
anywhere that can do spares then shout :)
Actually I might bring our Flexowriter home and start going over it...
no doubt I'll unearth some horrors along the way :)
Do it. Misery loves company. We can swap horror stories :-)
Joe
cheers
Jules
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"We thought you was a toad!"