[GreenKeys] Model 19 gears

Wed Jul 25 14:52:45 EDT 2018

I also had gummed up ribbon mechanisms on my 15 and 19, but I ended up not
having to take them apart. It took oiling them and working them by hand for
quite some time, but now they move pretty freely. That being said, I could
move them by hand with a relatively high amount of force from the
beginning, but if yours are completely frozen and cannot be turned by hand
at all, you may need to disassemble and clean. Heck, it's probably best to
disassemble and clean regardless. I'm just lazy.

Definitely be careful not to break the mechanism when trying to move by
hand with force.

--Jordan

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 12:44 PM, E. <hanyou at xsmail.com> wrote:

>
> I don’t remember if you said that the ribbon advanced when you took the
> basket off or not.  If not… I got a basket from one of the kind folks here
> on greenkeys since both of mine were either for weather or finance ;p .
> Anyways, what I ended up having to do was to disassemble both mechanisms
> that advance the ribbon.  They were totally gummed from either old oil, old
> ink or grime… probably all three.  Nothing took care of it while it was all
> together - mineral spirits, nothing.  If you have to go down that route,
> please be very careful because I ended up breaking off one of the… whatever
> they are called and had to use a spare off of another ;p .  A cloth, rubber
> mallet, vice grips, flat head screw driver, mineral spirits, more, etc… it
> took a good few hours to “pry” (not so much pry) all those parts out and
> clean them.  Very much good luck if that’s what your going to have to do in
> the end ;o ~
>
>
> > On Jul 25, 2018, at 1:21 pm, Kevin H. Phillips <kh-phillips at 9-5usa.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm making progress.  I took the typing unit off again and worked the
> main shaft by hand.  The clutch "appeared" to be working but I applied
> liberal doses of oil to it and to the area underneath the magnets.  I also
> removed the cap at the end of the main shaft and dripped oil down the
> center.  I put the typing unit back on the machine, hooked everything up,
> called up ITTY, and let it start printing.  This time after a few lines it
> started copying mostly correctly.  The LF had not been working before and
> it began working as it should.  The typing basket had been advancing only
> about half-way down a line and now it is going to the proper end. CR & LF
> seem to be working as they should.  It is typing pretty well so it is
> obviously 60wpm.  The only "major" problem now is that the ribbon isn't
> advancing and returning so it just types until it pounds a hole in the
> ribbon.  I'm going to let it run open for awhile and see if that jars the
> mechanism loose.  I had put quite a lot of oil on the typing basket/head so
> it "should" be well lubricated.  There must be some residual guminess
> somewhere.
> >
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> > On 7/25/2018 12:01 PM, Kevin H. Phillips wrote:
> >> On 7/25/2018 8:24 AM, ken Schwieker wrote:
> >>> When you push a key does the cam on the keyboard make one revolution?
> >>> Ken S
> >>>
> >> Yes, it does.  Hopefully I can work on this a little while this
> afternoon.  The keyboard clutch was slightly stuck so I used some of the
> penetrant oil to free that up so perhaps the clutch on the main shaft is
> also gummy.
> >>
> >> Kevin
> >>
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