[GreenKeys] Model 28 ASR - It's working, except the Keyboard locked up

[Doug Alderdice]

At 05:24 PM 6/21/2006 -0500, Don Robert House wrote:
>You can spray the ribbon with WD-40 to reactivate the ink.

Not always.  This was the subject of a recent thread on one of the phone 
collectors' lists in regard to rejuvenating Calculagraph ribbons.  I and 
others have tried the WD40 trick on those ribbons with the same result: 
worked great for a very short time (no more than a day or two) and then the 
ribbon dried up and was less able to produce an image than it was before 
the WD40 application.  In my case, my ribbon was able to produce some faint 
images before I applied the WD40.  Worked great for about a day after I was 
sprayed it and then after that I got no image at all from the ribbon.  A 
couple of other collectors had the same experience.

Tread carefully.  YMMV.

Doug, KA2WFT