[GreenKeys] [External] Re: MITE AN/TCG-14A Video

[Duncan Brown]

What is the diamater of you cylinder? Similar to the MITE, or larger?  I 
think this was discussed here, before, but don't remember the answer.

Maybe it is for the MITE   AN/TGC-29 reperf.

Duncan
K2OEQ

On 08-May-22 12:29, John, W9DDD wrote:
> Is there a reperf that works in a similar fashion?  I have a cylinder 
> with the characters rotated 90 degrees from what your diagram shows.
>
>
> On 5/8/2022 10:15 AM, Duncan Brown wrote:
>> Here is a diagram of the MITE printing mechanism.
>>
>> Have fun,
>>
>> Duncan
>> K2OEQ
>>
>> On 08-May-22 10:57, Duncan Brown wrote:
>>> On the MITE, the hammer is in front.  It pushes the ribbon against 
>>> the paper and then against the 8-sided type cylinder in the rear. 
>>> Other than a "type cylinder" instead of a "type box" and no platen, 
>>> the printing mechanism is very similar to the Teletype Corp. M28.
>>>
>>>  It is a very compact machine. When it works, it is great, but when 
>>> it doesn't, it can be very hard to work on!
>>>
>>> Have fun,
>>>
>>> Duncan,
>>> K2OEQ
>>>
>>> On 07-May-22 22:54, Jones, Douglas W wrote:
>>>> From:  Joe Duszyński [joeduszynski1 at gmail.com] -- Saturday, May 7, 
>>>> 2022 9:06 PM
>>>>
>>>>> So I'm curious is it like a Daisy wheel or a DMP or some sort of 
>>>>> belted letters?
>>>> The MITE, like the Model 33, has a type cylinder that rotates and 
>>>> slides in order to pick the letter it prints. Unlike the 33, the 
>>>> cylinder in the MITE is on a horizontal axis parallel to the line 
>>>> it is printing, and if I recall correctly, the hammer hits the 
>>>> paper from behind instead of typing against a rubber platten the 
>>>> way classic typewriters do.  The type cylinder has just 8 
>>>> characters around it, and it is keyed to the shaft it rides on to 
>>>> select which letter faces the paper. So that shaft rotates while 
>>>> the cylinder slides from side to side to select the letter in a row 
>>>> of 8 (for a 64 character alphabet).  The hammer is narrow and hits 
>>>> the paper from behind against the ribbon and cylinder to print the 
>>>> desired letter.
>>>>
>>>> It's very clever, and like Teletypes, it's mostly mechanical 
>>>> decoding.  Not at all like a daisy wheel printer or the belted 
>>>> printers (GE Terminet, for example), technologies that only really 
>>>> became possible when you could pack a small computer worth of 
>>>> electronics into the printer.
>>>>
>>>>              Doug Jones
>>>>              jones at cs.uiowa.edu
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