I just adjusted the oscillator rail left shift link age and voila! - now my M and period match up and my errant # has disappeared.
Jerry Murphy diagnosed the symptoms and pointed me to the proper adjustment for the cure. See below -
I confess that I am really slack when it comes to getting a "basement find" unit running again. I have never gone completely through the entire adjustment procedure. I just try to clean, dissolve the frozen grease, re-lube, turn it on, and troubleshoot obvious problems. And I have never had to make that typebox shift adjustment before.
Getting this printer going has been a good experience and I have learned things that should come in handy in the future.....if I don't forget them by the time the next basket case turns up on my bench.
Cheers,
Nick England K4NYW
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Jerry says:
Go to:
https://navy-radio.com/manuals/tty/573-115-700-iss7-6607.pdf and then look for adjustment 2.47 - Printing Carriage Position. 2.47 will make sure that the hammer is hitting squarely on the M typepallet. When you are satisfied that the print hammer is hitting the letter M correctly, go to adjustment 2.48. 2.48 ensures that the print hammer is striking the selected typepallet in the figures field squarely. The adjustment calls for checking with the letter O and the numeral 9 but feel free to use the letter M and the period. At this point, I feel pretty certain that you will find that an adjustment is needed. Check and see if adjustments 2.49 and 2.50 need any attention.
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I believe you are correct about bad alignment and hitting the edge of the # pallet when the hammer is aiming for SPACE. It isn’t a bad # pallet but FIGS/LTRS not lined up.
Jerry Murphy slowed down the video even more and sent me a diagnosis earlier today. I just ran his test a minute ago and confirmed bad alignment. See attached photo. I will perform correction and see what happens. Stay tuned.
The experience and helpfulness of greenkeyers is really great!
Cheers