If you're
shipping it yourself (and have a reasonably large car), I'd
ship it in bits. You'll want (or should want) to inspect things before
powering it up anyway.
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Um, or just ship it whole in the back seat of your car, where nothing will
happen to it.
I have a box of teletype spares in my workshop. Until quite recently it
contains the plastic bellcrank that goes under the run-out key. I gave
said part to a fellow collector who shipped a teletype as you described.
I am not sure what happend (took a corner too fast, went over a bump too
fast, whatever). Anyway, the typing unit came off the rubber mounts and
wrecked said bellcrank. It didn't do the keyboard linkage much good either.
What you're suggesting here is insanity. There's more chance something
will get damaged by disassembling it than by just transporting it whole.
Did you actually read what I wrote? All I am suggesting is removing the
complete typing unit from the base pan, and taking the base pan off the
stand. No more dismantling.
To be honest, if you can't manage that without doing damage, you'll never
keep an ASR33 running.
-tony