[GreenKeys] ASR 33 teletype Arrived in mail

[devin davison]

Alright, I removed the teletype from the shipping board. It does appear to
be the original shipping board, there were a couple of spacers in between.
I do not plan on shipping the machine again, if someone needs it, i am
willing to ship it to them.

Motor spins freely and does not lock up, as others suggested, the H bar is
attached still and was not bumped loose in transit. I powered the machine
on, i do not have the front decal so I'm unable to tell which is local and
remote setting. In the far left position, the carriage kinda jumps in place
repeatedly. I am assuming the center position is off. Turn the knob to the
right and the motor spins but no carriage movement. some of the keys give
some movement on the carriage, but it is not what i would expect to be
normal behavior. Carriage always stays in place.

These are just my initial results with the machine. I am going to start
looking over the manual a bit better, see if there is a flowchart of
operation or something to see what would cause such a hangup.

It did not go up in smoke, thats a good enough start for me.

--devin

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 5:21 PM, devin davison <lyokoboy0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ASr 33 teletype arrived in the mail today. Sadly there looks to have been
> some damage, there are some loose bits and pieces floating around the box.
> Does not appear to be anything major.
>
> I looked at the little rubber plunger that hits the print head, it appears
> to be in good shape, aside from that, i do not even know what i am looking
> at yet. I do not want to just power it on, i want to make sure everything
> looks ok first.
>
> I plan to post back with some pictures, can anyone give me some general
> advice on what to look for that could be out of place or anything that
> could cause trouble.
>
> --Devin
>
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