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The Legion Grows…
Don, from NathanGuitars.com, recently left some comments here. As I normally do, I clicked the link he left attached to his name, discovering yet another typecast blog I hadn’t seen before. Reading his post here caused me to think about the parallels in his introduction to typewriter hoarding and my own. I have the idea that this is a common experience among us. (:
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Happiness is a new ribbon…
A month’s worth of randomness…
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On the quality of Typewriter Ribbons

As you wind the ribbon onto your machine's original spools, take the time to install eyelets at the ends (a foot or so in) if your machine needs them to actuate the ribbon reverse mechanism.

This Swissa Junior has european-sized spool posts, which are slightly thicker than US-made typewriters, so the spools that came with it always need to be used. Sadly, they are plastic, so I will someday have to hunt down some metal spools in this size before the plastic ones break.

Ephemera of another dead and gone typewriter shop. This paper label came off of the back of the 1951 Smith-Corona Silent from last post.

The front-office desk of Bill Wahl at Mesa Typewriter Exchange. There is no computer anywhere in this office - instead, on the fold-out section if the desk is bolted an Olympia SG-1. The rest of the desk is covered in typewriters that are in for repair, but the SG1 is the one he types on. This Hermes Rocket is owned by someone who got too far into the "taking stuff apart" stage of a typewriter cleaning project without properly documenting where things went. (no, not me :D )
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A Day of Inky Fingers and fun finds!

Just to make the day complete, I dropped by MTE and showed him my new find. He had this mint green SM-3 that he'd just finished cleaning up. It had been found in a field with the case rotting around it, and was caked with rust and dirt when it went into Bill Wahl's Typewriter Spa. Now it functions perfectly, and is clean as a whistle! This is a pretty fecthing shade of green that I hadn't seen on an SM before. Just think. Someone left this in a field to *rot*.
The Hour of Twilight, Dragon Soul and even some typewriter-related stuff…

Chef Harbashi of Uldum, modelling his new Tier 12 gear. Not as badass-looking as Tier 10, but a heckova lot better that that gaye Tier 11 crap.

and now, some typewriter-related posting. First an Experiment In Terror:
and then, an amusing thing I got in the mail. This insurance company used an Elite typewriter font to address this letter that showed up in my mailbox. I’m curious if they thought that it adds a personal touch to try and fool me into thinking that they had someone type my address out on a manual (note the uneven inking) typewriter.
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What is PICA anyway?

Where these fonts all seem to differ quite wildly is the style of the numbers. Here they are all together.
So, if “Pica” is a size, or more specifically any 10 CPI font face on a typewriter, then what is the typestyle that most of us know as “Pica”? Is it Courier, or does it have a name at all, or is it just designated as numbers by different factories?
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