VCF East, ASR33 help wanted

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue Jun 29 17:23:18 2004

> I would like to recruit 3 or 4 knowledgeable and highly motivated
> classiccmpers (motivated by the prospect of DINNER and BEER on me)
> at VCF East to completely tear down, clean, adjust, lubricate and

Just to warn you. I did my first ASR33 when I was still at school,
without any manuals. And yes I did take it totally apart, cleaned it,
oiled it, and adjusted it by feel. It took me 2 weeks. Now admittedly I
was only working evenings and weekends (as I said I was at school), but I
doubt anyone could do it in the 'spare' time during VCF (and having more
people is probably not an advantage -- in my experience it's a lot better
to have one person who knows exactly what to do).

> suggest) busily scrubbing parts as they are handed to me. With four
> guys and one scrubber, could this be accomplished in a couple of
> hours?

I doubt it. My 'record' time for stripping an ASR33 into modules is under
5 minutes (!), but I don't think I could strip and reassemble/adjust even
the carriage in a couple of hours. Not and get it perfect anyway.

> 3) I'm a gutless wimp. If I get it apart, I'm not sure I could get
> it all back together, even with the docs. I have original prints
> of some of the docs and the rest in electronic form.

Look, I did my first one about 20 years ago with no manuals and no
mailing lists to help. If I can do it, anyone can!

-tony
Received on Tue Jun 29 2004 - 17:23:18 BST