[GreenKeys] M-15... Auto Line Feed After every printed character

E. hanyou at xsmail.com
Tue Jul 22 21:00:22 EDT 2025


Okay, it’s been a while since I’ve fiddled with my 19, so decided to take it apart.  I did a real world test of taking off the one spring that’s not diagramed and it just caused LF to not feed… so I can’t see how the other spring would do anything much different (I now think my issue was that it would not LF because the spring was off… oh well).  However, looking at the bottom-left of the printing unit… you said you reassembled it after cleaning (or something), right?  I wonder if that either:

1 — photo attached — the part that I’m pointing to with the screwdriver (and to the right… the part being the LF lever) are slightly misaligned to where they're constantly getting caught on the upper tooth of the lever and is getting pushed to do a LF whenever the shaft rotates.

2 — the veins are slightly bent (or misaligned) to where it constantly throws a LF signal onto the teeth (slightly more unlikely but possible).

Please forgive my terminology if it’s off but it’s been years since I’ve poured over this stuff ;p .

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> On Jul 22, 2025, at 7:20 PM, hwhall at aol.com <hwhall at compuserve.com> wrote:
> 
> If this is still a mystery tomorrow, I'll see if I can examine a M15 & take some pics & notes on the real-world push bar location & spring (if there).
> 
> Wayne
> WB4OGM
> 
> On Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at 06:14:14 PM MDT, -E <hanyou at xsmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> I scanned the M15 diagram and I’m not seeing one spring right off hand either — I might just be missing it… but without tearing apart my M19, there are two springs that immediately see (videos attached… hopefully they'll go through).  One I point out with a pen and the other — again, not immediately obvious in the diagram that I looked at, is in the left-center frame-portion of the vertical video.  For some reason I remember that the one that went missing on mine was next to the platen, but I could be wrong.  A screenshot of that portion next to the patten is also attached.
> 
> Good luck!


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