[GreenKeys] Issues with Alignment

Mon Sep 23 23:37:18 EDT 2024

Hi all, sorry for the radio silence (laugh here). School's kept me away
from working on the teletype until just yesterday. Wish a fresh pair of
eyes I think I spotted my problem - bonus points to those who said it was
the ribbon. While this is a brand new ink ribbon, something seems to be
wrong with the ribbon feed which makes it keep going back and forth over
the same short segment instead of the whole length. I'll have to dig into
the carriage but that's a problem for another day. I still have an isolated
issue with the letter S and the $ symbol not showing up on the bottom but
that's not too bad anyway.

For now I work on interfacing the machine to a computer - I'm attempting to
use John Nagle's design I found at https://aetherltd.com/ but just can't
get the baud rate reconfiguration for the usb adapter to work. There's
definitely some digging to be done yet.

I'm sure all be back with more questions eventually. Thanks for the help,
73 all.
Aidan Riley W9POG

On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 6:48 PM hwhall--- via GreenKeys <
greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Is there a "trick" to replacing a pallet & getting the new one in just the
> right position?  Maybe a detent or something on the type bar?  I may have
> to attempt this.
>
> Wayne
> WB4OGM
>
> On Friday, September 6, 2024 at 10:44:41 AM MDT, John, W9DDD <
> w9ddd at tapr.org> wrote:
>
>
> I'm gonna guess that this was a weather printer at one point and someone
> went to the trouble of changing the pallets.  I did that for one pallet
> way back when to get a slash zero.  Kind of tricky work meant for young
> hands.  I certainly wouldn't try it these days.  My first clue was the
> $.  And that made me think about the adjustment for platen shift.  But
> then I noticed most figures printed pretty well.  LTRS C and D caught my
> attention for having their bottom half light compared to most other
> letters.  I'm puzzled though that the vertical alignment seems OK on
> letters like  C D and Z, but the bottom half is light or missing.    I'm
> not quite sure how to describe the mis-alignment nor why that would happen.
>
> To change one you get the type bar pulled up and somehow held in place
> just above the other letters, heat until the old one comes loose, a
> little more heat to keep solder molten while dropping the new one in place.
>
>
> On 9/6/2024 10:02 AM, Aidan Riley wrote:
> > Whoops, sorry about that. Here’s a better version of the picture. The
> > signal is just the teletype echoing to itself.
> > image0.jpeg
> > Aidan Riley W9POG
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Sep 6, 2024, at 1:37 AM, Joe Clanin <macbax1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >> What is the source of the signal?
> >>
> >> -Joe
> >>
> >> On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 1:28 AM E. <hanyou at xsmail.com
> >> <mailto:hanyou at xsmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>    Able to provide a larger photo by chance :) ?
> >>
> >>
> >>    > On Sep 6, 2024, at 1:15 AM, Aidan Riley <w9pog73 at gmail.com
> >>    <mailto:w9pog73 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>    >
> >>    > Good afternoon all,
> >>    >
> >>    > I've been having some troubles getting my model 19 to work.
> >>    I've had some issues with the typebasket specifically on a couple
> >>    of letters plus the figure case. I was wondering if anyone has
> >>    seen something similar to this and might know what I can adjust
> >>    to correct it. I've included a picture of what all the keys look
> >>    like when typed.
> >>    >
> >>    > Thank you in advance for your help.
> >>    >
> >>    > 73
> >>    > Aidan Riley W9POG
> >>    > Sent from my
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