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WHEN I AM TYPING AND GET MORE THAN HALF WAY ACROSS AND THEN I HIT RETURN IT WILL GET STUCK. HAVE TO TURN THE TYPEWRITER OFF BEFORE I CAN GET IT TO GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE LEFT OF THE TYPEWRITER.
Re: WHEN I AM TYPING AND GET MORE THAN HALF WAY ACROSS...
Try a little WD40 on the silver shaft the carrier slides on, if that dosen't do it lube the carrier motor under the case at the R. rear. WD40 will work there also.
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typing the top half of each letter
Donna, sounds like the carriage spool is stuck or out of adjustment. Not to hard, but pick up typewriter and slam it down on counter to see if it put carriage and spool back in position.
Good luck.
Just hit the mode key until TYPE, on the display, is highlighted. There are 3 modes, TYPE (where the machine functions like a normal typewriter), L/L (Where what you are typing shows up in the display and then prints when you hit the "RETURN" button. You can make corrections, in this mode, before you print the line, which saves using your correction tape.) and STORE (which is used to store memory information, such as format and phrases.)
The first thing to try is to lubricate the silver rail that the carriage rides on. A few drops of a light oil ( sewing machine oil ) may take care of the problem. Turn machine off, apply oil and move carriage by hand back and forth. Turn back on and see if this took care of it.
Could be a forien object down in the machine. With the machine OFF you should be able to move the printhead easily by hand from one side to the other. If not, look in the machine and see if there is something physically stopping it.
try turning the machine off put a SMALL amount of oil on the large round rod running across the typewriter manually push the print head left and right a few times to see if it will loosen up. The problem is usually caused be drying oil you may consider having it serviced by a pro.
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