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Olympia SG-1 Right Margin Stop/Key Lock
On an Olympia SG-1, are you suppose to be able to space through the right margin stop? When I reach the right margin, the key lock engages and it stops being able to type; but the space bar still engages and it will continue to space with the space bar through the stop, and then the keys will reengage several spaces later if you continue to space through the margin. I am not sure if this is a feature or if something is wrong, as I am not familiar with the SG-1 and I couldn't tell from the manual.
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Re: Olympia SG-1 Right Margin Stop/Key Lock
I thought not, and so just checked my SG1s, and no: the behaviour you describe is not what mine do. At the right margin lock, all carriage movement, including the space-bar, is halted until the margin release is pressed.
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Re: Olympia SG-1 Right Margin Stop/Key Lock
That is what I thought. I have messed with it for hours now, and it seems that I cannot find the right spot. I have either a soft left margin, too early key lock, or I don't get a full right stop. The piece that stops the margin does not seem to have enough strength to stop the carriage. If I adjust it up, the keys lock too early, if I adjust it down, the left margin sometimes catches a space before the setting. I am thinking I might just consider spacing through the margin to be a new custom feature, and call it a day.
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Re: Olympia SG-1 Right Margin Stop/Key Lock
You're probably already aware, but the carriage release does by-pass the margin stop, but as Beak pointed out, the spacebar shouldn't. I've had a couple of SG1s where the right margin was not fully resetting after using the margin release. Any chance this might be what you're experiencing?
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Re: Olympia SG-1 Right Margin Stop/Key Lock
I was able to get it working. Part of the problem was that I adjusted it incorrectly to solve another problem, so I returned everything to where I began--as closely as I could remember--and started over. The spacing through the margin continued, though. So I replaced the extension spring that provides tension to the center block with a stronger spring, and the issue seems to be resolved. I am not sure I am referring to the parts correctly, but her is a picture of the spring I replaced. I messed with so much, I am sure I jacked something up, but it seems to have fixed it for now:
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Re: Olympia SG-1 Right Margin Stop/Key Lock
Correction. It is not fixed. The spring had too much tension, so the key lock wouldn't engage. Ugh. Off to the hardware store.
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Re: Olympia SG-1 Right Margin Stop/Key Lock
Just as a final follow-up, it is working 95% of the time now. I am pretty sure that I am the cause of every subsequent margin problem outside of the original soft margin that started me down a several hour rabbit hole. Though I did swap the spring, the spring was probably not an issue originally, but I had to compensate for whatever mess I did adjusting multiple parts in a hasty manner. I did so many stupid things on this one; I mention this in case anyone confuses what I did above for a real fix--it was not.
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