ASR-33 hold-down bolt...

[Tony Duell]

> > If you're shipping it yourself (and have a reasonably large car), I'd
> > ship it in bits. You'll want (or should want) to inspect things before
> > powering it up anyway.
> 
> <2 pages of diassembly instructions snipped>
> 
> Um, or just ship it whole in the back seat of your car, where nothing will
> happen to it.

I have a box of teletype spares in my workshop. Until quite recently it 
contains the plastic bellcrank that goes under the run-out key. I gave 
said part to a fellow collector who shipped a teletype as you described. 
I am not sure what happend (took a corner too fast, went over a bump too 
fast, whatever). Anyway, the typing unit came off the rubber mounts and 
wrecked said bellcrank. It didn't do the keyboard linkage much good either.


> 
> What you're suggesting here is insanity.  There's more chance something
> will get damaged by disassembling it than by just transporting it whole.

Did you actually read what I wrote? All I am suggesting is removing the 
complete typing unit from the base pan, and taking the base pan off the 
stand. No more dismantling.

To be honest, if you can't manage that without doing damage, you'll never 
keep an ASR33 running.

-tony