20 Most Recent IBM 4247 Model 1 Matrix Printer - Page 6 Questions & Answers

Your lang light is probably turned on. Hold down the control button (left of the spacebar) and then hit the letter "L". This should turn off the feature.

It is probably the print solenoid that has a broken cap. I have seen a few advertisers that sell the repair kit with instructions. It is fairly simple to repair.

You could have a broken element (type ball). You could also have a broken or out of adjustment rotate or tilt tape. Those are the two wire bands that control the rotation and tilt of the element.

Does anything else work? It is possible your right margin is set to close to the left margin. Try tabbing all the way to the right, set the right margin, hit the return and then hit the tab. If it beeps and goes all the way to the right, try setting some tab stops and retry the test.

It is probably the print solenoid that has a broken cap. I have seen a few advertisers that sell the repair kit with instructions. It is fairly simple to repair.

Is your platen snapped down all the way? Can you look at the ribbon and see where the letters are striking the ribbon?

Your batteries are probably bad. If this going on for a while the holder will be corroded be sure all the contacts are clean. DickyO

motor bushings may be gummed up or belt may be broken

Your Selectric II (a wonderful machine) is in need of cleaning and adjustment. When I did this, I got $65.00 for the service ... that was years ago. I don't know anyone who does this work any longer though a search on Google may get you results for a shop in your area. There may be a FixYa.com advertiser who can help you. Look at the ads around this answer (that is what pays the bills, after all).

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try resetting the right margin

At most paper and offcie supply stores or online which may be cheaper

lift the top cover up any further case removal should be done by a typewriter repair person

The IBM 6713 is known as the "Electronic Typewriter" first generation. The cover latches on that machine are quite stiff, and more difficult to see than selectrics, or others. If you open the top cover, look between the machine frame and the inside of the cover at the bottom. You will see a gold rail on each side of the machine with a tab folded over where a large screwdriver can be placed in the slot. Put a large screwdriver in that slot, and then slide that tab (I believe it's) pull it forward toward yourself. It will be VERY tight and you will need to use significant amounts of force to get it to move. You should repeat this process for the other side. You're not likely to damage anything as long as you are in that latch rail, which is gold in color. If the machine is not working, and you have some dream of fixing it; best of luck to you. The machine's rightful place in history is to drop it off a cliff. By this age, the power module pulleys will be broken resulting in a carrier that won't move. To replace those requires both new parts, training, and a *lot* of skill. Nobody, including myself, that was trained to fix those would touch one of them today, if you could get the part. The power module is a two-speed bi-directional transmission affair that provided the motion from a uni-directional motor to the screw that the carrier follows. They are notoriously unreliable, and once IBM declared the generation at end of life, and refused to look at them, that was lights out for the IBM Electronic Typewriter models 50, 60, and 75 only. The replacement models are 65, 85, and 95, and are not bad machines at all, but still few if any would agree to work on one. All were complicated, and the first generation unacceptably unreliable.

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If everything else seems to work but it doesn\'t print the plastic print solenoid cap is probably broken. We sell them with installation inst. for 20.00 inc. shipping.Dick O\'Reilly216-269-3918