12 Apr
2016
12 Apr
'16
10:36 p.m.
On Tue, April 12, 2016 23:55, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
On 12 April 2016 at 15:55, E. Groenenberg <ed at
groenenberg.net> wrote:
I know of the Greenkeys list, I joined them 2 weeks ago. I'm going to
look for a proper hose in a few days.
I remember that I used some years go one of those rubber feet, and it did
work well but then I bought some parts from nc.com (when they did stock
much more than today), and acquired a few original rubber hammer pads.
But all the pads I have have become useless now due to gooeing.
It does not have the LT33 modification, although I have seen one once.
That punchread mechanism had an extra position.
My machine is a more or less 'standard' ASR33.
I was not aware of the possible reproduction of rubber hammer pads, I
certainly would be interested in some.
Ed
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First thing I did was to replace the gooed up
rubber hammer, only to
find out that my replacements were also starting to deteriorate :(
(but still stiff enough to be usable for some print test).
I can either use a piece of hose or one of those little self adhesive
rubber feet.
So, first thing's first, I'll going to provide you with this link the
the GreenKeys mailing list. They know pretty much everything about
Teletype machines, and more importantly one of the list members there
has started making reproduction/replacements for the old Teletype
print hammers. <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/greenkeys>
Don't go with the adhesive rubber foot, it'll fly off and either hit
you, or lodge in the mechanism and you'll have a bad time. Rubber hose
is the best, unless you decide to buy a new hammer.
Only thing what does not work yet is that the
paper reader does not
start
when I flip the switch to the 'start' position (it is a 3 position
switch).
Any ideas how to make this work?
If it has the DEC LT33 modifications, which might be the case if it
used to be part of a DEC system, or was similarly modified by other
manufacturers it will have a reader run relay, which can be triggered
on the DLV11-K. I don't have the pinouts to hand to tell you exactly
which one. If the reader run relay isn't energized the reader won't
run; it's how the computer did flow control when using the reader.