I will try and respond here, I had it set to send digest versions, but am not getting the digest version of the email list, I have changed it to individual messages, so I hope to get individual messages now.

I'll respond in order:

Harold: I had a model 33 in high school, but didnt know what I had and did not have it connected to anything, I just ran the rool of pre-punched tape and was fascinated watching it print everything out. It was a list of names and or accounts for something, never knew what. I was hooked, but it took many years to understand what it would be good for!

The machine running with no loop current, sits and acts like it is typing, but does not type, just spaces itself to the end of the carriage and sits there kerchunking away. With loop current, it sits quietly with the motor humming and spinning happily in the background.

John W9DDD, I have a synchronous motor, no black and white marks on the fan (Not governed). I tested the unit with an optical tachometer and it is running spot on at 1800 rpm give or take 1rpm once in a while.

Duncan K2OEQ, I have adjusted the spring tension to both extremes and it does make a huge difference but I can't find one single spot where it works perfectly. I have adjusted the coils spacing following the use of a stripof bond paper to set the clearance of a mark cycle, it has helped but is not quite there yet.

The motor speed does not change, the typing rate does, almost like it is trying to catch up or let the character catch up with the mechanism., It is not a steady chunk chunk chunk chunk, more of a chunk chunk chuuunk chunk chunk.

Hanyou, Yep, I lubed those up and made sure the motor was spinning freely, it has been tested with a tachometer and is right at 1800rpm as it should be. The rear bearing is a little noisy, but does not seem to affect speed.

Tomhenryhunter Tom N3CRK,  yes, mainshaft was oiled inside and out. The felts were cleaned in naotha, to get a lot of the old oil out, and then soaked with clean oil when reassembled. All oil cups were filled and then refilled as needed. I would have put monel on the main shaft being the cause after I saw the old grease and oil residue, but alas it was not.

Carriage is actually working great, and yes the return belt is a bugger! learned my lesson with that! Need to find a carriage with the communications type basket, mine is the weather type set....

I will look for the screw adjustment on the selector you mentioned, that sounds like a possibility!

I will try your art stream for sure! Thank You!

abowman89, It's getting better gradually. The more I learn the better it gets ;)

To All: I can type the entire keyboard to the printer without errors. This tells me the keyboard and transmitter are OK and the printer and "decoder" is OK, it has to be an adjustment on the selector or rangefinder. I will look at the pin adjustment and see if that makes a difference.  I can almost get the whole test message in clear type, but there are enough erroneous line feeds and carriage returns and wrong characters to keep pushing forward with adjustments.

Thank You for all of your help, I will have more updates soon!

Steve 

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