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If you’ve gotten a terribly dusty and dirty typewriter and don’t have an air compressor or canned air at home, a quick trip to the car wash might not only get your car clean, but allow you to blow out...
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Spending part of the day cleaning up the 50th birthday Olympia SM3 typewriter. It’s “fuzzier” than I thought it would be initially.
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I remember chuckling when I saw Tom Hanks’ tags on his typewriters. Now that I’m over 15 of my own which are constantly out and about the house, I realize the benefit of matching tags on machines and...
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You see photos of standard typewriters, but you’re never ready for what shows up. To provide some scale, here are my 12.8 pound 1949 Royal Quiet De Luxe portable and my 29.8 pound 1955 Royal HH...
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I usually type up a short introduction card for the handful of typewriters sitting around the house so that visitors will have an idea of what they’re appreciating. It’s almost like having a museum...
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Forget gasoline. Dismiss lighter fluid. Let slip the idea of lacquer thinner. When I clean my type slugs, I only use bourbon.
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A fascinating looking class that ostensibly will have no required textbooks or the need to take notes. Michigan State, Fall 2024. Via Sara D. Miller.
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Today’s office. We’ve got a newly finished Shaw-Walker filing cabinet and a 1955 Royal HH standard typewriter.
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An uncanny coincidence that I picked up a 1958 Olympia SM3 typewriter today (with a Congress Elite No. 84 typeface, 11 pitch, 2.3 m/m and a custom math keyboard) and this awesome t-shirt shows up on...
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I’m now a full two years into using my variation of the Memindex/Bullet Journal on index cards and starting a third. I still find 4 x 6 inch index cards more freeing and flexible than using the more...
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I got impatient since it’ll be a while before the 1931 New Orga will be operational again, so in a highly manual exercise, I threaded, advanced, and pulled out a type sample from the machine to see...
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I realized tonight that I’ve got some reasonably thick waxed cord for use in leatherwork hiding in the craft drawer. (I chose purple in honor of Willy Wonka.) I’ve strung it up on the new New Orga and...
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More progress on the 1931 New Orga (Privat 5): he types! I found some compatible spools and ribbon. Given the Orga typewriter from the movie, I thought this Willy Wonka quote was apropos both as the...
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