--- Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote: BTW, are these 8.5"x11" paper or 11"x17" paper? What's the synopsis for the area around the One thing that I did mention and I'll mention again is that my hammer face is not original - I stuck on a rubber sticky foot and I suspect that it is part of the problem. I read here recently that someone has had luck with carved pink pearl erasers, but I haven't tried that. Worst case is I can nab the printing mechanism out of my wire-service TTY, the one with the 110 baud data set (modem) built into the pedestal. It doesn't fix this one, but it does get me up and running more quickly. The other thing that sticks is the line-feed mechanism. I can see the pawl on the back side of the ratchet at the left of the main roller and it doesn't always spring back up. Presumably it's another lube job waiting to happen. Neither of these teletypes has been stripped down in the 13+ years that I've owned them. To make matters worse, neither one has been powered on in ten years. I haven't had time to work with my classic machines until this year. I can get for under $15 a disposable carburetor solvent bath-in-a-can at a local auto parts store. Presumably, this is a suitable solvent. The print mechanism should fit nicely for immersion. I used to disassemble sewing machines as a youth. I never tried putting them back together, but I'm OK with hand tools. I just repaired the works of an upright piano that I was gifted with - its problem was dried and cracked glue joints on one key mechanism and the entire damping bar. Obviously, a teletype has more moving parts than a piano, but there is a superficial resemblence. Sewing machine oil? "Three-in-one" brand general-purpose oil? Am I on the right track here? I also restore Volkswagens. I know what a grease fitting is and how to operate a grease gun. (As an aside, I just got a 1975 Microbus in operating shape for $300 - it needs some work in the fuel injection system, but otherwise OK). Maybe someone will eventually scan a set it as was mentioned here. Alternatively, there is always the route of borrowing, xoxing and returning a set. I was looking at things again tonight... the -8/L is not 100%. I had to remove the PSU to fix the loose fuse holder - it wasn't just loose, the side lug had a cold joint on it. I had to remove the mains-in and mains-out sockets to get room for my tools, but all is well on that front now. The problem is that the machine does not correctly run the RIM loader. If I put a halt (7402) instruction in low core, location 0, say or even 20 and I run the RIM loader, after reading in one character, the CPU halts at that low core instruction. If I single step things, it does not wander off into low core. Another wierd symptom is that pressing the START switch increments the PC address, but only on the same page (i.e., 7777 becomes 7600) OTOH, some programs do work. I wrote a quick-n-dirty echo test. It works fine with my VT220... 0200 6032 KCC 0201 6031 KSF 0202 5201 JMP .-1 0203 6036 KRB 0204 6046 TLS 0205 6041 TSF 0206 5205 JMP .-1 0207 5200 JMP 0200 Nevertheless, the RIM loader fails if I put the CPU in RUN mode without the single-step switch thrown. Back to the drawings. Sigh. Thanks again for the good info. -ethan ===== Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away in February. Please send all replies to erd(a)iname.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com