Very likely the grease in the main clutch is hard and will not
release. Is the motor running at full speed or is it stalled?
No easy or quick adjustments on those beasts, alas.
You can try removing the cover under the carraige and injecting some
white lithium grease into the clutch mechanism (it's on the shaft
right beside the motor if I remember correctly) and see if that
helps. Switching on and off repeatedly until the motor spins can get
it going for a while, too.
Best bet is to see if someone still services them and get it cleaned
and oiled.
They are wonderful beasts. I still use mine once in a while,
probably need to use it more to keep it going. Hard to beat for
addressing envelopes and things like that.
Peter
On May 28, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Allan Streib wrote:
I have an IBM Selectric that I picked up for free a few years ago and
has sat unused since then. I actually wanted to use it the other
day to
neatly address some envelopes, and didn't want to fool with trying to
feed them through the printer because half the time they don't go
through properly, and it's just a lot more work to set up an
envelope in
a word processor than it is to just type the damn thing.
Anyway, I turned it on and it just sort of chattered and didn't really
respond to the keyboard. I've read that they can do this after
sitting
for a while, but this one didn't seem to settle down.
Is there a common adjustment or repair or cleaning that can resolve
this?
In the meantime I used my dad's old manual 1960's era Smith-Corona,
after locating it in the basement and finding it still works
perfectly.
Allan
--
1983 300D
1979 300SD
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