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| "Partsy" the parts machine |
Eric Rucker has the first three on YouTube - but the rest are MIA:
10-1A Positive Power: Operational Shaft
10-1B Positive Power: Printing Mechanism
10-2A Negative Power: Escapement, Tabulation, Backspace, Carrier Return
10-1B Positive Power: Printing Mechanism
10-2A Negative Power: Escapement, Tabulation, Backspace, Carrier Return
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| A (mostly) correctly extracted Operational Shaft :) |
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Selectric Innards
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Here is a little teaser...
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The series syllabus is as follows:
10-1A Positive Power: Operational Shaft
10-1B Positive Power: Printing
10-2A Negative Power: Escapement, Tabulation, Backspace, Carrier Return
10-2B Manipulative Assignments
10-2C Dual Pitch: Selectric II
10-3A Input: Keyboard
*10-4A Output: Printing Mechanism
*10-4B Tilt & Rotate Adjustments
10-5A Sundry Mechanisms: Platen, Index, Fabric Ribbon
10-5B Correcting Tape Mechanism: Tech III Ribbon Mechanism
*Series that I am working on currently.
Holy Moley. You are one dedicated fellow. Godspeed, man!
ReplyDeleteHa - yeah, I have a big carrot (shaped like an Olympia desktop). :-) The good news is that the machine on the bench is coming back together. I needed the video series to help me with visualizing and executing the (correct) rotate tape installation. I've done it before, but swore there had to be a better way, and surely there is! So, once I get the shafts back in (today?) and wrangle the rotate tape back in, get the tab and return cords reinstalled and calibrated, I can go through all the adjustment operations, and this thing should hum like new. :-) Maybe even by the end of this week, if all goes well.
DeleteStarting to seem a bit unfair - the Olympia doesn't require any of that. But you will end up being THE go-to guy in these parts for Selectrics. That's a worthy goal, I'd say.
DeleteYou sir, have stumbled headfirst into the Selectric rabbit hole, and are caught in the grip of a madness. :D
ReplyDeletePS: I have only managed to download the "10-1A" series from Youtube so far. Let us know when you have digitized the rest, as I'll want to go through that course myself (heh)
Okay - for now, I'm posting the links on a page here: http://brumtypia.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
Delete10-4B is posted in its entirety to YouTube. It could use chapter/slide markers. More work that I cannot put into it just yet.
10-4A is a couple days away.
Ah! The world of selectrics. I have yet to go there fully myself, but will when I am set up in my workshop. I am keen to see where this selectric love takes you!
ReplyDeleteAll this stuff is out in the Links page of the golfballtypewritershop Yahoo group. If you care to plod through it in "JPEG & MP3" fashion, it's all there. Eventually I hope that we'll see all of these materials converted to video and online for all to learn from. If you haven't seen the syllabus, here it is ... it gives me goosebumps :)
DeleteTable of Contents:
10-1A Positive Power: Operational Shaft
10-1B Positive Power: Printing Mechanism
10-2A Negative Power: Escapement, Tabulation, Backspace, Carrier Return
10-2B Manipulative Assignments
10-2C Dual Pitch: Selectric II
10-3A Input: Keyboard
10-4A Output: Printing Mechanism
10-4B Tilt & Rotate Adjustments
10-5A Sundry Mechanisms: Platen, Index, Fabric Ribbon
10-5B Correcting Tape Mechanism: Tech III Ribbon Mechanism
I'm impressed with anyone who can teach himself Selectrology, even with great aids such as the ones you're digitizing. Keep at it.
ReplyDelete"Selectrology" sounds like something Tom Cruise might be into. LOL
DeleteThe trick is this: METHODOLOGY -- the IBM engineers have these things down to a science, and everything is driven off a specific methodology. The problem for a lot of us "type bar" folks is that in a conventional machine, if the escapement is acting up - you address the escapement (generally speaking) and you're back in action. With the Selectric, it's a lot like working on a VW Beetle -- if you want to remove the distributor, you have to drop the engine and all that that entails. It's THAT part the screws with we mere typebarians, because I (I can't speak for you, but I am guessing that we're in the same boat) do not know with certainty what those chains of events and systems are that we have to also address.
This video series lays it all out in plain talk (mostly), it's just something that you really must devote a large number of hours to. Fun, fun, fun!!! :-)
Excellent work. I'll be needing to study these videos myself quite soon.
ReplyDeleteCool. Video 10-4A Output: Printing Mechanism (covers the tilt and rotate tapes in detail) is going up to YouTube right now. Should be ready this evening (US Eastern Time). Cheers!
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