Many, many, thanks to the person who posted the fix for gooey print-hammer pads!! The one I got had turned viscid, so I scraped it off, cleaned the tab, and affixed one of those little peel-n-stick rubber feet. (one trade name is 'Bumpon'). It works perfectly, and is just the right height. Now I am diagnosing the machine.. it has a stuck something in the keyboard/reader. Some keys print a different character, and a few print only their shifted symbol, and vice-versa. Neither does Return work, tho I can trip the pawl by hand and the carriage smacks me in the knuckle every time. Reading a test tape produces the same result. So I am going to spread out the manuals and figure out which codes are getting mangled. Other than that, it seems in good shape, still nicely oiled and all belts in good condition... even the ribbon is still dark, except for the portion that has been exposed for the last twenty years, sitting on that lonely shelf... According to the Laws of Surplus Attractionm can a PDP-8 be far behind?? Cheers John