[GreenKeys] ASR 33 motor buzzing

[Nick England]

Sounds like a starting capacitor to me. They do dry up and go bad. If Wayne
or Paul don't have one, I think I still have an extra. I bought several a
year or so ago for $6 each.

Easy check. When you first turn it on, use your hand to get the
motor spinning in the right direction. If it is just a bad capacitor it
might come up to speed and keep going. Or it might not, depending on how
the capacitor has failed.
Nick

On Thursday, October 13, 2016, Brad via GreenKeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Okay so I think I may have a dead motor on my hands.  When I power my ASR
> on I hear a loud buzzing, and I can hear and feel it coming from the main
> motor.  However if I manually turn the motor shaft (clockwise), everything
> in the Teletype seems to move as it should, it’s not seized.  After a while
> it will blow the 2A fuse nearby.
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> Would that about be the right diagnosis?  Can the motors be rebuilt?
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> If anyone else has any other suggestions on stuff I can try, I’d be most
> appreciative.
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Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
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