[GreenKeys] ASR-33 going crazy in local mode - FIXED!

[Seth Morabito]

On Oct 7, 2013, at 10:06 AM, Teletypeparts <teletypeparts at aol.com> wrote:

> Seth,
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> 2.  The three little levers under the carriage that control the typewheel's vertical movement (I sometimes refer to them as fingers hanging down) are sticking together.  See pic #1, circled in red and each is marked with a red dot.  They, and the shaft they are on need to be sprayed with solvent and freed up and then lightly lubed with 3 in 1 oil or the like.  About the only place to use 3 in 1 oil on a 33.  You dont have to remove the carriage to free the fingers up. 

Woohoo! Wayne, this was exactly the problem. They were sticking together.

I gave it a little bit of oil and a little bit of manual wiggling, and gradually I started getting the correct characters. It's still just a little bit gummed up and not always giving the right character (maybe 90% correct?), so tomorrow I'm going to go all the way and spray it with solvent and then re-lube.

But that was it! Thanks so much for walking me through that. The pictures were especially helpful.

The only thing I have left to do is adjust the line-feed linkage (it sure is finicky) and I think everything will be 100%, completely, totally working!

-Seth