[GreenKeys] 28ASR Type Hammer?

[Roy Morgan]

At 09:56 PM 11/15/2006, you wrote:

>We have a Model 28ASR at KPH/KSM ...The plastic piece on the end of the 
>type hammer arm ...broke after just a bit of use.


RD,

You must have gotten Don House's reply. Even new old stock ones bust up 
quickly due to materials failure from age.  This topic has been a point of 
discussion for some months on this list, and our best hope is that Don can 
get them reproduced.  Some home-grown workarounds seem to function, but 
likely don't have long life.

Don is waiting for a new old stock (unbusted) part.  If you can retrieve 
all the bits of yours, and send them all to him, it *might* speed up his 
process of getting a quote on new ones.  But we hope he gets the undamaged 
part soon.  We also hope that the quote he gets back is affordable by all 
of us with the same problem.  I have two standalone M-28 typing 
reperforators that need hammers, and I'd sure like to run at least one of 
them for the next decade or two.

In the meantime, cast an eye around your places for any Model 14 typing 
reperforator.  If any you find can be made to run, that may turn out to be 
the solution to making typed tapes (at 60 WPM only.)

Alternatively, I suppose we could disable the typing part, make the tapes 
without the printed characters and either duplicate them later if needed, 
or put the typing on the same tape somehow.

Roy



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