29 Jun
2004
29 Jun
'04
10:23 a.m.
I would like to recruit 3 or 4 knowledgeable and
highly motivated
classiccmpers (motivated by the prospect of DINNER and BEER on me)
at VCF East to completely tear down, clean, adjust, lubricate and
Just to warn you. I did my first ASR33 when I was still at school,
without any manuals. And yes I did take it totally apart, cleaned it,
oiled it, and adjusted it by feel. It took me 2 weeks. Now admittedly I
was only working evenings and weekends (as I said I was at school), but I
doubt anyone could do it in the 'spare' time during VCF (and having more
people is probably not an advantage -- in my experience it's a lot better
to have one person who knows exactly what to do).
suggest) busily scrubbing parts as they are handed to
me. With four
guys and one scrubber, could this be accomplished in a couple of
hours?
I doubt it. My 'record' time for stripping an ASR33 into modules is under
5 minutes (!), but I don't think I could strip and reassemble/adjust even
the carriage in a couple of hours. Not and get it perfect anyway.
3) I'm a gutless wimp. If I get it apart, I'm
not sure I could get
it all back together, even with the docs. I have original prints
of some of the docs and the rest in electronic form.
Look, I did my first one about 20 years ago with no manuals and no
mailing lists to help. If I can do it, anyone can!
-tony