Teletype Tales Part 2

_Teletype_Tales_ Part 2 - Waiting For Another Day For ten years (Really? Ten? Well, more than nine.) the two teletypes have sat in a corner of my basement. From time to time, I made requests (public and private) for help, but nothing I could offer (mostly unlimited pizza and beer) could entice anyone knowledgeable to come give me a hand. That's not to say that no progress was made however. Most of the progress came in the form of further acquisitions. The first was a nice shiny chad bin. There was a chad bin with the ASR when I got it, but the plastic had degraded to an opaque milky yellow and the "lip" that is supposed to hold it in place had broken off and been lost. When I got the ASR, the bin was being held in place with masking tape. The "new" bin is whole and crystal clear. It has just the slightest golden tint to betray its age. I also went to work getting original prints of all of the model 33 documentation. I got them in bits and pieces over the years, some bought, some gifts, a single section here, a collection there. I'm now confident that I have a complete set, in fact, I think I've ended up with two complete sets and three copies of a few of the sections. The best part came on Father's Day of 2002. A greenkeyer pointed me to a shop that had some "new old stock" model 33 parts. The prices weren't too bad and my wife agreed to let me get what they had as my Father's Day present. They didn't have any KSR covers, but they had a complete ASR cover, brand new, punch, reader, top cover, front metal nameplate and mode select knob. Pictures here: http://wsudbrink.dyndns.org:8080/images/teletype/ The P53* pictures are before installation, the P10* pictures are installed. There are also pictures of my recent work, described in part 3. I unscrewed the reader and punch covers from the old cover and put that on the KSR. Better than nothing. I made occasional attempts to further clean and lubricate the ASR, still afraid to really take it apart. I did manage to get the carriage to move somewhat but not really well. The punch seemed to work, punching values that matched whatever it printed. It would punch a line feed, but the paper wouldn't budge. It would also punch a control-G but the bell would not ring. I never made any attempt to hook up the current loop. Everything I did was in local mode. End of part 2.