"Organ doners" was: Re: ASR-33 more on spacing

Hmmm, now this doesn't look particularly good. I manually pushed the carriage to the right and it worked. (ie the pawl re-engaged.) Then I typed for a while and then it stopped spacing in the middle of the page. Manually push it one character space and it works again. By observing the mechanism, I can see that there is one position of the spacing ratchet that doesn't seem to allow for spacing. It could be a broken tooth but I can't tell from looking at it from the side. Another interesting tidbit is that when I hit "return" the carraige _stops_ at that tooth, even if this means stopping mid page! Now a damaged tooth could be used to explain the first behavior but not the second I don't believe. The cardboard/spacer thing is still in there and it doesn't seem to harm anything so I still can't tell if it is supposed to be there or not. I have a complete (but dirty) typing unit available as an organ donor if I can deduce the cause of the trouble.