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Title: Selectric Repair Series
Post by: bhtooefr on Tue, 28 June 2011, 13:53:03

Looking around online, I stumbled upon an audio+slide series on repairing the Selectric, done in 1978. The slides and audio cassettes had been digitized, but it was a simple, drop the slides in some folders, drop the audio into another folder, job.

What I've been working on is converting those to videos for upload to YouTube.

This is a huge, huge job, but someone's gotta do it. ;)

I'm currently working on section 1A, which will be 15 parts long. As of this posting, I've got 6 parts uploaded.

So, here's part 1 of section 1A:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcl1jczxvRo

All of the later parts will be linked sequentially from there. I'll also make playlists for each section.

Title: Selectric Repair Series
Post by: Pylon on Tue, 28 June 2011, 16:08:52

Nice. I have a gummy Selectric III that needs some work, so it will be appreciated.

Title: Selectric Repair Series
Post by: ironman31 on Sat, 02 July 2011, 09:25:18

I also have a selectric II I would like to restore

Title: Selectric Repair Series
Post by: bhtooefr on Sat, 02 July 2011, 10:26:11

Ironically (given that I'm posting the repair series), I'm sending mine to someone for a full refurbishment - I don't have a good way to work with stuff outside, and it needs some parts replaced.

Title: Selectric Repair Series
Post by: EverythingIBM on Mon, 04 July 2011, 02:53:30

So do people actually use selectrics for serious work? Or is it just some novelty?
I like the idea of print-as-you-type though. Mistakes? Don't make them.

Title: Selectric Repair Series
Post by: Daniel Beaver on Mon, 04 July 2011, 03:35:32

Oh damn, I'm in love.

Only one of my three Selectrics works very well. Time to get busy.