20 Most Recent IBM wheelwriter5 - Wheelwriter 5 Electric Typewriter Grade C Questions & Answers

Imagine your fingers are spread out and the have letters on them, a small electromagnetic hamer smacks the backside of your finger pushing it into ribbon and paper this makes a letter. What is occurring is the hamer is fireing between your fingers and hit the space between them, no letter is formed. Check your daisy whell or change it, the return key most likely has a cracked solder joint where it is conncected to the circuit board, if you can get the cass of I could probably talk you though the procedure but that's pushing it if you've never used a soldering iron, good luck,Bret

You probably have a bad keyboard. We cn supply you arebuilt one for 99.00 or you can try my fix under WW1000.DickyO

See Problem determination on page 4-1 of user manual. IBM Wheelwriter 1000 User's Guide (xavier.edu)

Go to the IBM web site, select your printer model and OS type. Follow the onscreen instructions.

It should have been sent to pasture many years ago as it is 35 years old!

Check if they are on the wheel. They had a habit of spokes snapping off.

You can download this troubleshooting manual from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmtypewrishootingTheIBMSelectricTypewriter_48581416 There are quite a number of YouTube presentations for working on Selectric typewriters.

1. turn off your IBM wheelwriter. 2. take the cable off from electricity 3. wait until around 1 minute 4. turn it on again

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Remove the print wheel and wash with soap and water. Turn the typewriter off and reinstall the print wheel,

Turn off, remove print wheel, turn on, turn off, reinstall print wheel, turn on. Make sure PROPORTIONAL SPACING is not selected.

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