ASR-33....its alive (sort of)

[John Lawson]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, David V. Corbin wrote:

> To those who have been following my restoral of an ASR-33 [the h-plate
> horror], it is finally working in reasonable order <doing the happy dance>
>
> The main items are:
>
> 1) need a new rubber for the sriker before I destroy the head (and
> sources...a "like new" head would also be great..

   While the actual Teletype-issue striker might be problematic to find, 
many of us (and others on the Greenkeys list) have had good luck using one 
of those small rubber feet with the adhesive on the back (one commercial 
brand is 'BumpOn')....   just clean the hammer pad and stick on one of the 
3/8" round or square feet - problem solved.  I've done this myself and the 
rig is, to the best of my knowledge, still in service five years later.


  Cheers

John