On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
> I've restored a couple Silent 700 and found that the grease in the head lift
> solenoid had become very sticky (ie, no longer grease) and after completely
> cleaning and applying new (white lithium grease) the solenoid works much
> better
Eric,
I've restored a couple Silent 700 and found that the grease in the head lift
solenoid had become very sticky (ie, no longer grease) and after completely
cleaning and applying new (white lithium grease) the solenoid works much
better. I also had one of the knobs you mention split but was
On further study, I find that I misunderstood the nature of the print
mechanism in the TI Silent 700 model 763. What I thought was the line
advance solenoid is actually a head lift solenoid. It fooled me
because it is actuated every time the line is advanced, but the actual
line advance is perform
I've now got a TI Silent 700 Model 763, and it is partially working.
The previous owner said that the line advance wasn't working reliably,
but that otherwise it was working. As I received it, the thermal print
head is only darkening the top scan line of characters, and only
partially. The intensit
