PDP-8/L and TTY stuff (was Re: TTY and current loop questions) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Dec 1999

--- CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote:
...
  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.  
 I think that was me.  The erasers aren't nearly as durable as the
 original heavy rubber (after all, erasers *are* designed to wear away!)
 hammer face, but they are easily carved. 
I just ordered some replacement rubber hammer faces from Western Numeric
Control along with some oiled paper tape and a couple of paper rolls.  I
don't have an exact total, but I just dropped about a hundred bucks including
shipping.

Fortunately for my pocket book, I have several boxes of dry fan-fold tape for
my high-speed punch.  I just checked the box - some black, some grey and one
box of genuine "PDP" papertape from DEC.

Now back to cleaning and lubrication.

-ethan

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