Upon the date 11:04 AM 6/20/99 -0700, Chuck McManis said something like:
>Hmmm, now this doesn't look particularly good.
>
>I manually pushed the carriage to the right and it worked. (ie the pawl
>re-engaged.) Then I typed for a while and then it stopped spacing in the
>middle of the page. Manually push it one character space and it works again.
>
>By observing the mechanism, I can see that there is one position of the
>spacing ratchet that doesn't seem to allow for spacing. It could be a
>broken tooth but I can't tell from looking at it from the side. Another
>interesting tidbit is that when I hit "return" the carraige _stops_ at that
>tooth, even if this means stopping mid page!
>
>Now a damaged tooth could be used to explain the first behavior but not the
>second I don't believe. The cardboard/spacer thing is still in there and it
>doesn't seem to harm anything so I still can't tell if it is supposed to be
>there or not.
>
>I have a complete (but dirty) typing unit available as an organ donor if I
>can deduce the cause of the trouble.
Chuck and others:
I'm cleaning out some extra stuff I don't want as a result of moving out of
our old house. I have a couple of 33's which are only good for parts.
Anybody need parts for their typing unit, keyboard unit or UCC-6 CCU units?
Please let me know ASAP as they will be hitting the metal recycle bin next
week.
Regards, Chris
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Received on Sun Jun 20 1999 - 16:07:32 BST