[GreenKeys] Model 33 part

[Troy Peterson]

Hi all,

 

Can anyone please tell me what this part (see picture) is?  I received my Model 33 ASR in a partially disassembled form and have been restoring it... and I'm nearing completion.  Along with the machine I received a little jar of screws, springs and odd parts that were removed from the machine. I didn't think too much of this piece in the jar until I was watching a video from Curious Marc and happened to notice a fleeting glimpse of the same part laying on the desk in one of the shots. The screw hole in the middle leads me to think it's some sort of heatsink - but it's heavy steel which wouldn't really be particularly good as a heatsink... and it's odd shape implies that it might actually be a tool or jig (or key) designed to help with some aspect of assembly / disassembly...  or some sort of alignment bracked... Someone must be able to enlighten me.

 

I also have another question - can anyone tell me how the repeat key is supposed to work? I am not completely finished restoring everything but I have temporarily put all of the parts in place and run it and currently when you press a key it continuously repeats that character non-stop until I manually flip the master reset lever on the keyboard. I can feel that it's bouncing up and down but it's not returning to the lock position on it's own without help.... Now I had to completely re-assemble this keyboard from parts, including re-inserting all of the springs and that lever and I'm pretty sure it's mostly all correct, but the 'repeat' key doesn't feel right to me when I press it so I'm thinking that the problem might be that it's not in properly and is basically 'stuck on'.  My guess from assembling it is that the point of the key is that when it's held down the reset lever doesn't return to the lock position so the character would repeat as long as it's held down - is that right?  So I'm hoping it's a pretty easy fix to get that key in correctly and everything will work... otherwise there is something mechanically wrong either in they keyboard or in the lever on the printer side not fully pivoting it back to the locking position..

 


 

 


 

Thanks again,
 Troy.
 

 
 
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