Fair price and ways to find a teletype

[ASR33] A general point. The 'Typing Unit' -- that is the main chassis with the motor, carriage, platen, punch, in fact everything apart from the keyboard, tape reader and electronic unit is not normally bolted down. It rests on rubber mounts. If you are shipping an Model 33, you must either put in a shipping screw, or preferably remove the typing unit (it's just some electrical connections and the H-plate link to the keyboard trip linkage) and pack it separately. Otherwise you will have damage. If it;s a real Teletype as opposed to, say a Data Dynamics 390 (which is Teletype mechanicals in a Data Dynamics case) then note that the plastic cover is likely to have gone very brittle with age. Take care. All I can say is YMMV (and mine certainly did). I rebuilt my first Model 33 when I was still at what you would call high school. Back then there was no WWW, no places to get manuals, no lists like this one. And I didn't have the paper manuals. I took the whole thing apart down to the last nut and bolt. And got it running. You need a good hand tool kit, but not that much more unless you need to make parts. Perhaps because I had a mis-spent childhood but I had no problems figuring out how it all works. It's not that complicated, it follows very logical principles. That I will agree with. My first one, working without manuals, took about 6 weeks of tinkering in the evenings after school and at weekends to get going. And it certainly didn't work first time (it almost did, I had misunderstood the print suppression linkage). -tony