But what failure mode would cause extra characters
from the keyboard ?
When you press a key, you relase a lever at the right side of the
keyboard. This rotates (front end rises), turning the well-known H-plate
that links the keybaord to the typing unit. This, in turn, releases the
trasnmitter clutch. At the end of the transmit cycle, the H-plate is
forced back again by a cam on the trasnmit shaft in the typing unit,
which turns the trip lever in the keyboard back again. At which point
this lever has to be latched by a catch in the keyboard (this is the
catch that's released when you press any key).
Well, if that catch is sticking, or there's an incorrect adjustment
somewhere in the transmit trip linkage, then the thing might will not
latch up every time, casuing the trasnmit shaft to make 2 revolutions,
thus sending extra characters.
-tony