On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> --- James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> > Well... while I don't have one (tho it would look kool next to my '029)
>
> You have an 029?
Yep! Immortalized in flying bits on my web pages!
> I've got an 026 that is in need of some cleaning/adjusting.
> Have you ever gone through the process?
Oh yes... many a time over the years. (complete docs help)
> When we fire it up, not all the right things happen when feeding a card
> from the hopper.
Been there... What sort of 'not right things' are happening? (or not
as the case might be) Most common gremlin I've seen on mine is a group of
cam driven actuators that cycle a gang of lever switches, and the
lubrication gums up and causes the actuators to stick (or be slow) and
that completely messes up the cycling of the machine.
I usually end up pulling out the block, removing all of the actuators
(think there are five of them), giving them all a good clean and lube, and
then we're off for another stretch.
> Where do you get your punch cards from? I know you can still order them,
> but I don't want to buy 10,000 cards at a time. I'm thinking more like
> a few hundred at a time, and a few colored cards for dividers.
Been there too... My current 'stock' was culled from a local recycler who
had just carted off a large mainframe based data center and multiple
pallets of cards. I got them for a couple of bucks per box, but the trick
was to sort out the unused cards from the punched! All of the boxes of
cards you see were palletized with little regard for where they had been
on the shelves. B^{
Ummm... wait... 10,000??? that's only five boxes! Where did you find
that would sell in that small a quantity?
> Also, do you have a set of the leaf-spring force measurement thingies? I
> need to aquire a set for the 026 and TTY adjustment, and have no idea where
> to buy them.
No, that's one tool that I've not picked up so far although they seem
common enough.
-jim
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