Adding machine repair

An ASR44, right?

Well, personally, I'd take the whole thing apart and clean each component by hand, peg out the holes, and so on. It really doesn't take that long. But if you want to kludge it, at least remove : Motor (and assockated electrical bits) Distributor brush and PCB 'disk) Trasnmit shaft triival now) Puch mechanuism (it's easy to remvoe,) Platen assembly (there's a spring on the underside of the typing unit to detach first) Carriage (remove the damper piston from its left side, take off the return spring, the belt pulley and the breacket over the advance sprocket. Then turn the carriage anticlockwise as seen from the front, about an axis going horizotnally front-back) and pull it out_. What, though, is the objextion to completely stripping it. As I mentioned, I did my first ASR 33 while still at school (actually as light releif between my A-level exams), without the benefit of the manual. Worked second time (I had the print inhibit linkage misassembled the first time). I think doing the whole machine, typing unit, keyuboard, punch and reader took a couple of weeks working evenings, and I was also figuring out how it all worked. -tony