20 Most Recent IBM Wheelwriter 3500 By Lexmark Electric Typewriter working Questions & Answers

unplug the machine remove the batteries wait 30 seconds replace the batteries and plug back in

depress the button on the far right panel that says print.

You probably have a broken solenoid cap. You will need to order the cap but I do not know who has a video or instructions to do it.

It is possible that your print solenoid is bad . You may need a repair kit that has a plastic cap that goes on the end of the solenoid. Any typewriter technician can fix that in a short amount of time.

The key to the right of the spacebar with the "X" printed on it is the correction button. You just place the carrier on the character to the right of the wrong one and hit the corr. button. The carrier should automatically back up and and remove the incorrect character and if you hold the key down it will continue to back up and remove characters. then you just type in the right one(s). Of course you have to have good "correctable" ribbon and correction tape cartridges installed. If the tapes are old you may have to advance them by typing and correcting or by manually advancing them before they will work. If the correction doesn't remove all the ink from the paper you may have a bad ribbon and/or correction tape.

On the upper right hand of the key board is a key labeled print mode press that key to exit that mode. DickyO

If when you turn it on it completes the power on sequence and will type then your keyboard is bad. Contact Geo. Byers Co. DickyO

Tab all the way to the right, hold down the tab clear key, press return. DickyO

Once deleted it's gone. You will have to re-enter it all and take care not to delete it again.

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