19 Aug
2012
19 Aug
'12
10:41 p.m.
Message: 18
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:01:09 -0400
From: Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com>
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Subject: Re: Can a Selectric from 1961 converted in one Terminal
Typewriter
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I'd keep it as a typewriter. They're great machines.
Seconded. The Selectric (Correcting Selectric II) is my favorite typewriter. A bit too
heavy to be considered
portable, but solid and great feel.
You'd need to recreate all of the drive and decode mechanism - it wouldn't be
worth it unless you were
very interested in recreating a Selectric Terminal Typewriter rather than just having a
printing terminal.
20 Aug
20 Aug
12:50 a.m.
Scott Quinn wrote:
Message: 18
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:01:09 -0400
From: Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com>
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Subject: Re: Can a Selectric from 1961 converted in one Terminal
Typewriter
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I'd keep it as a typewriter. They're great machines.
Seconded. The Selectric (Correcting Selectric II) is my favorite typewriter. A bit too
heavy to be considered
portable, but solid and great feel.
You'd need to recreate all of the drive and decode mechanism - it wouldn't be
worth it unless you were
very interested in recreating a Selectric Terminal Typewriter rather than just having a
printing terminal.
Hunter Thompson carried one. If you can pick it up or it has a handle,
it's portable.
3:02 a.m.
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, jimpdavis wrote:
Scott Quinn wrote:
Even if it can weigh in excess of 70lbs?
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/alf/ps2_60041/
From: Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at
me.com>
Hunter Thompson carried one. If you can pick it up or it has a handle,
it's portable. I'd keep it as a typewriter. They're
great machines.
Seconded. The Selectric (Correcting Selectric II) is my favorite
typewriter. A bit too heavy to be considered portable, but solid and
great feel.
You'd need to recreate all of the drive and decode mechanism - it
wouldn't be worth it unless you were very interested in recreating a
Selectric Terminal Typewriter rather than just having a printing
terminal. 
12:24 p.m.
On 8/20/2012 1:02 AM, Tothwolf wrote:
Anything that fits into the back of small Japanese car is *Portable*
acording
to this list! Anything bigger is a Mini-computer.
Ben.
Hunter
Thompson carried one. If you can pick it up or it has a handle,
it's portable.
Even if it can weigh in excess of 70lbs? 
12:40 p.m.
Nobody said it was *easily portable*:)
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Paul Anderson -- VE3HOP
On 2012-08-20, at 12:24 PM, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 8/20/2012 1:02 AM, Tothwolf wrote:
Anything that fits into the back of small Japanese car is *Portable* acording
to this list! Anything bigger is a Mini-computer.
Ben.
Hunter
Thompson carried one. If you can pick it up or it has a handle,
it's portable.
Even if it can weigh in excess of 70lbs? 
2:54 p.m.
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, ben wrote:
Anything that fits into the back of small Japanese car
is *Portable*
acording
to this list! Anything bigger is a Mini-computer.
One of the magazines (PC?) reprinted a Japanese ad showing a
well-known Sumu wrestler with a luggable on his shoulder, and a comment
about him demonstrating the portability of it. The magazine added that
he could demonstrate the portability of a Subaru.
5:50 p.m.
On 20 Aug 2012 at 11:54, Fred Cisin wrote:
One of the magazines (PC?) reprinted a Japanese ad
showing a
well-known Sumu wrestler with a luggable on his shoulder, and a
comment about him demonstrating the portability of it. The magazine
added that he could demonstrate the portability of a Subaru.
This reminds me of the time an ad shot was done for the F85. The
marketing people recruited one of their own for the photoshoot--a
stunningly attractive tall blonde. It was required that she hoist
the machine (I haven't checked recently but it weighs in somewhere
around 50 lbs.) to slightly above waist-level, pause and SMILE. If
any female in the company could do this, she could.
The photo people had to airbrush the veins standing out in her neck,
however...
--Chuck
1:02 a.m.
On 19 Aug 2012 at 22:41, Scott Quinn wrote:
Seconded. The Selectric (Correcting Selectric II) is
my favorite
typewriter. A bit too heavy to be considered portable, but solid and
great feel.
I have one of those (in green) wide-carriage from UC Berkeley
surplus. Anyone know how to replace the motor drive belt without
ending up with lots of bits and pieces strewn about? If there's an
easy way, I don't see it.
--Chuck
3:35 a.m.
On 20/08/2012 06:02, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 19 Aug 2012 at 22:41, Scott Quinn wrote:
There are a series of Selectric repair videos on Youtube and a Yahoo group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/golfballtypewritershop/
which has PDF s of parts of the service manuals.
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Seconded. The Selectric (Correcting Selectric II)
is my favorite
typewriter. A bit too heavy to be considered portable, but solid and
great feel.
I have one of those (in green) wide-carriage from UC Berkeley
surplus. Anyone know how to replace the motor drive belt without
ending up with lots of bits and pieces strewn about? If there's an
easy way, I don't see it.
--Chuck
2:22 p.m.
On 20 Aug 2012 at 8:35, Dave Wade wrote:
There are a series of Selectric repair videos on
Youtube and a Yahoo
group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/golfballtypewritershop/
which has PDF s of parts of the service manuals.
Great! I found the manual I needed in the group's files. It's not a
simple job, but at least I have a service manual if I mess up too
badly.
Lot of nice stuff there, including material for Selectric mag card
and memory typewriters, as well as an article for converting an I/O
Selectric for use with a Commodore PET.
Thanks again,
Chuck
3:04 p.m.
surplus. Anyone know how to replace the motor drive
belt without
ending up with lots of bits and pieces strewn about? If there's an
easy way, I don't see it.
I've never done it (not having a Selectric :-() but I am told you did
ahve to dismatle half the machine to remove the mainsahft far enough to
get the new belt in. I beleive it was comon practice for IBM CEs to put 2
belts round the shaft and then tape one ot the side plate out of the way.
That way, next time it failed they could untape the 'spare' and hook it
onto the motor pulley. Of course the enxt time they had to do the whole job.
-tony
5:53 p.m.
On 20 Aug 2012 at 20:04, Tony Duell wrote:
I've never done it (not having a Selectric :-()
but I am told you did
ahve to dismatle half the machine to remove the mainsahft far enough
to get the new belt in. I beleive it was comon practice for IBM CEs to
put 2 belts round the shaft and then tape one ot the side plate out of
the way. That way, next time it failed they could untape the 'spare'
and hook it onto the motor pulley. Of course the enxt time they had to
do the whole job.
From the service manual, that is indeed the case.
Further, you need
to mark the positions of the various gears attached to the
mainshaft,
lest you disrupt the timing.
That bit about an extra belt is very useful. I may use it when I've
goten my courage up...
--Chuck
21 Aug
21 Aug
1:56 p.m.
From the
service manual, that is indeed the case. Further, you need
to mark the positions
of the various gears attached to the mainshaft,
lest you disrupt the timing.
4:25 p.m.
On 21 Aug 2012 at 18:56, Tony Duell wrote:
Is there a procesudure given for checking/setting the
timing'from
scratch'? I am always wary of whether the setting in a second-hend
machine are spot-on, so I would want to check this, even if it takes a
long time.
There are several manuals for this; both third-party and IBM. There
is some information in bitsavers as well on the Yahoo! list.
Fortunately for us all, IBM goes to great pains to explain the
workings of the Selectric.
--Chuck
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