: Re: [GreenKeys] Cleaners, lubricants, pipe-dream "The way things work" animation

Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:43:19 -0500

                My experience with doing this is that 15's seem to work
OK, but 28's don't just because of the lack of momentum as stated below. 
The clutches will stop, but not really release, and drag pretty hard.

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 08:52:56 -0400 "Jack" <[email protected]>
writes:
> Tim et al,
> 
> One of the "features" of a Teletype is that it will function
> without the motor running...you just turn it by hand and
> watch things happen. If you have a TTY on a loop
> (printer and keyboard) you can type a character in the 
> keyboard and watch it go through the printer, selecting
> the bits, setting up the codes bars, etc. Of course,
> the lack of momentum supplied by the motor's speed will
> cause some of the functions to "miss" on some
> machines. 
> 
> There are some adjustments on the Model 28 that are made
> in this manner (such as aligning the type hammer to the
> type pallets and setting the timing and strength of the
> impact of the hammer on the type pallets). 
> 
> Jack WA2HWJ
> 
> 
> 
> 
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