[GreenKeys] What moves the ribbon on a Teletype 43?

[Don Robert House]

Remember that the M43 is an ASCII  8 Level machine intended for use  
as a data terminal for linking to a computer system with a modem.
There are a number of Model 42s squirreled away somewhere that are 5  
Level ITA2 "Baudot" machines but so far I have been unable to find  
any.  Unless you have a protocol convertor an ASCII machine is not  
going to do much good on RTTY.

I have one M43 here that helps hold the shelving down along with my  
mint UGC-74C without its print cartridge.  If anyone has one of these  
print cartridges they would sell me I would pay a good price for one.

Don
K9TTY


On 1 Jun 2006, at 4:20 PM, Larry Tighe wrote:

I noticed a lot of 43's on eBay selling for peanuts....might be a  
worthwhile source of parts.

Lar
K2JIA


----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Mushel"  
<herbert3 at centurytel.net>
To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 16:46
Subject: [GreenKeys] What moves the ribbon on a Teletype 43?


Charles, I think you are someone with coattails I would like to hang  
on to. You have a model 43.   So do I, one I got on ebay and when it  
arrived, the print head was "floating" around loose, doing all the  
damage it could. After a couple of months, I found a source for the  
ribbons which arrived yesterday.   I plugged this thing in and got a  
row of red lights but no indication of any desire to do anything  
else.  If you are past the point of worrying about getting the ribbon  
to advance you are ahead of me.

I have no info on it.   Perhaps you can point me in some direction so  
I can download a manual or at least a schematic.

40 years ago I had no trouble getting models 14, 19 and 26 working  
(and they sit about 20 ft. behind me at the moment.   But this  
creature is something else.   I would at least like to get it in a  
"local loop."

73

Lee, K9WRU
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