I knocked over my previously working teletype.
I know you mention it in the Subject: line, but there are many models of
Teletype (and even more teletypes, using the term generically). Please
specify this is an ASR33.
After locating all of the pieces, I carefully re-installed as much I
How many little piexes? The 'typing unit' is not bolted down, so it's
likely to come free, and there's the 'H plate' to link it to the
keyboard. But did the sections come apart more than that?
could. The whole thing came apart, little pieces
everywhere. The
typewriter became detached from the keyboard. Pretty bad.
I almost got it working, but there is one thing that I cannot seem to fix.
The problem is that the print head is not moving horizontally along the
line, it just says in place and types each character on top of itself.
The carriage is moved bu the toothed belt at the front. At the left end
of this is the drive sprocket, bolted to a ratchet wheel. There are some
pawls (2, one for moving it, one to prvenet it running back?) that
operate on this wheel. They're lifted off the wheel during a carriage
return (so the spring can pull the carriage back to the left) and them
drop back into engaagement on the next character (IIRC). I'd start buy
checking this area. Maybe something is bent or out of place.
-tony