Hoopla!  It works.

Once I got it all back together, which wasn't easy, I set the reperf at 60 speed and plugged it into my news wire.

It started perforating right away. Once I had about four feet of tape, I started it into the TD of my old ASR  and it printed perfectly. Then I stopped the reperf and tried to put a ribbon on it. That was an exercise in frustration for almost 10 minutes. It took a couple feet of tape before the re-inked ribbon got dark enough to read - and it was even printing correctly. (First Pic)

Another part of the chinese puzzle is getting all the mounting bolts back in. If you mount the base first you cannot get to the mounting bolts for the reperf itself. If you mount the reperf on the base first - it makes it twice as heavy and that much harder to get into the machine - and then you can't get to two of the bolts to fasten the base into the dome. That is where I am now, with only one bolt holding the unit in the machine. I may be able to get one other bolt in tomorrow.  Right now I am too busy patting myself on the back.

Next step - Mount the typing unit and try to get it to work. I looked at the gears - 100 speed.  I have a 100 speed stand-alone 28 TD. I will have to bring that out to test the typing unit.

The keyboard perforater actually looks more like just another reperf - it has a selector on it, but it does not run open the way the dome reperf did without a loop.  (Second Pic) With the switch in "K" position, it does not perforate from the keyboard either. My junk ASR does not need the typing unit in it to perforate from the Keyboard - but it is definitely only a perforater.

While I was out there taking the pictures, I installed the typing unit to get the keyboard shaft turning. Now, in "K" position, when I press a key the tape advances one step but I only get sprocket holes. Maybe there is something wrong with it or maybe there is too much I do not know.

Oh well, one step at a time - have to hook up the selector on the typing unit next.

Tom   N3CRK