[GreenKeys] 15RO Continued

[Tom Hunter]

John was right. I had to remove the selector to get access to the stop
lever.
As soon as I removed the lock nut and turned the pivot bolt
counterclockwise a little, the stop lever loosened up.
Someone had been in there before me and tightened it enough to keep the
stop lever from moving.

While I was in there I disassembled it, cleaned the inside bearing with a
Q-tip and the outside one with a rag.I oiled them and reassembled the
pieces, making sure the stop lever moved freely. Once it was back in the
machine, it no longer ran open, a brief interruption of the loop would
cause the selector cam to make one revolution. But it still printed garble
on my news wire.

To make a long story short, I got the number from the motor pinion. It is a
114460 - 67 Speed. I brought up MMTTY on a laptop at 50 baud, ran it
through my Flesher TU-170, and into the RO. No luck. Actually on RY's the
RO cycled but did not print. I tried playing with the selector on my 60
speed news feed - Just garble.

I would like to see it print before I try to get 60 speed gears from Mr.
RTTY. I will fight with it some more tomorrow (Thursday) but I am running
out of ideas.


Tom   N3CRK
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