[GreenKeys] fired up another of our model 28.. it ran ryry then key stuck...

[Ed Sharpe]

Thanks Cory!! This points me!!!!!   Ed#

Cory Heisterkamp <coryheisterkamp at gmail.com> wrote:

>Ed, If you follow the key linkages you'll find they trip a universal
>bail that runs the width of the keyboard and is located just rearward
>of the "code levers". When this bail trips and rotates, it allows the
>"universal bail latch lever" to drop. This lever is pretty obvious,
>it's about midway centered left to right of the keyboard and is 90
>degrees to the univ bail. 
>
>When this latch lever drops, it does two things: 1. It drops down onto,
>and trips the 'code bar bail latch'...this initiates what I would call
>keyboard sampling (up to this point everything is actuated by the
>keypress) 2. It prevents the universal bail from resetting until the
>sampling cycle is complete.
>
>If you lift up the bail latch lever the universal bail should return to
>upright via spring tension and your key should pop back up. Check this
>first. 
>
>I'm mobile right now but I can mark up a picture if that would help.
>-Cory
>
>On May 5, 2013, at 1:23 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Cory - I hate to  say it...  the  28 I had in the 70s  for a brief 
>time I never  did anything to!    my  14  was the  one I  would  tear
>int  and diddle  with...
>> after than... worked on 35s  in the old  days of the  computer
>business...   but  for the  life of  me  can not  remember a  fix  for
>this  problem.  Have  no dissected it... as  we are in the midst of 
>clearing out another  room at the building for  displays.
>>  
>> yea  it is the keyboard  key that is stuck  don...  the "R"
>>  
>> Any preemptive advice is appreciated before I dig  in!
>>  
>> Ed#  www.smecc.org
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> In a message dated 5/4/2013 8:01:31 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
>coryheisterkamp at gmail.com writes:
>> Ed, when you say 'the key stuck', do you mean the key on the keyboard
>stayed depressed or something in the print unit is "stuck"? -Cory
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On May 4, 2013, at 7:47 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
>> 
>>> fired up another of  our  model 28.. it  ran did the ryryry  then
>key stuck!?  help?
>>> what  should I check first?  Ed#
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