[GreenKeys] Troubleshooting ASR32

[Sellam Ismail]

I'm sure the fine folks here have already dealt with this sort of issue 
too many times for it to be interesting and so I apologize in advance.

I'm trying to solve a problem with my ASR32.  I'm not quite sure how it 
happened, but it is stuck in the FIGS printing mode, and no matter how 
many times I hammer on the LTRS key (and no matter how forcefully either 
for that matter :) it will not print any letters.

Before this, something was wrong (again*) and the letters were not 
printing properly, e.g. hitting G produced D, etc.

This very unit was used in the filming of an upcoming Richard Gere movie 
called "The Hoax" (to be released this summer I think).  It was shipped 
back from the New York filming site and, despite my best attempts to 
prevent the FINE FOLKS at Fedex from turning this intricate piece of 
machinery into a pile of cams and springs, they did manage to break the 
paper lid and probably jarred something loose or jarred something tight 
somewhere which I believe is responsible for the erroneous printing.  An 
appropriate adhesive fixed the break in the plastic, but I've been 
confounded as to why the letters aren't printing properly, and I've 
already spent enough time on it that my admittedly limited expertise 
fixing these things has been exhausted.

* I had a similar problem with the wrong characters being printed when I 
shipped this to New York.  It turns out one of the tines on the PTR was 
dislodged and causing a stuck bit.  It took several hours to find this 
(and I owe Mr. House another thanks for his extremely gracious telephone 
assist).  However, this time there is a different problem as the PTR seems 
to be fine.

To re-cap, the only problem this had when I first fired it up (and this 
was the first time since it was returned from NY) is that the letters were 
not printing correctly (e.g. hitting G produced D).  After I started 
futzing around it got stuck into FIGS mode.  I'm not sure if one problem 
led to the next.

Any ideas?  First I need to fix this blasted FIGS problem, and then if 
there's still a problem with the wrong letters being printed I'll tackle 
that next.

Thanks for any and all help!

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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