6 Oct
2005
6 Oct
'05
6:13 p.m.
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at
siconic.com>
The problem turned out to be a tine in the reader that slipped out of its
linkage. I fixed that and now everything is working again.
Phew!
Thanks for all the suggestions and advice!
Hi Sellam
Sorry I didn't get back to you right away ( I
do have a job ). There are a number of clutches along
the main shaft. Each one is the shiny disks that
you see along the shaft. I forget how many there are
(4 or 5 as I recall ). There is a little paw that
lifts up to allow each clutch to engage, doing any
number of things like resetting keyboard or running
some other function. When the paw is down
there are two little tabs that stick out
from the clutch and rotate when the clutch is
engaged. When the forward tab hits the paw, it should
disengage the clutch. When the machine is running
at speed, inertia causes the two tabs to push together,
fully releasing the clutch. When running slow by hand,
you need to squeeze the two together when the forward
tab hit the paw. This fully disengages the clutch.
I know this is a little late but in the future it
should help.
Dwight