[GreenKeys] My Model 28 Progress

[Jim Haynes]

On Sun, 25 Oct 2015, Trent Williams wrote:
> After getting it home, I have run the motor several times and turned the 
> motor by hand to try to understand the mechanical action. When running 
> the motor, the hammer would stroke, not strike a letter, and the 
> carriage would not move. After successfully typing with it today, 
> something has changed. Now, with the points and print coil unhooked, it 
> continues to type dashes and the carriage moves now. Seems like 
> something is stuck. Help me if you can.
>
This sounds like you have a printer with the weather character set,
and it is in FIGS case.  Does the type box have a bunch of arrows
in FIGS case?  In the weather symbol character set, blanks in FIGS
case is a printing character prints a hyphen.