6 Responses to 1958 Smith-Corona 5TE Electric Portable

1. notagain says:

   January 21, 2013 at 8:53 pm

   I have only seen these on shopoodwill, not in the wild. Nice score!

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2. Bill M says:

   January 22, 2013 at 3:05 am

   Congratulations! Nice work. I have never seen one of these before.

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3. Richard P says:

   January 22, 2013 at 10:27 am

   Great deal! Hooray, once again, for PB Blaster. Old electrical equipment does make me a bit nervous, though.

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   • munk says:

     January 22, 2013 at 10:39 am

     They made me nervous too until this month – having a couple of electrics that badly needed cleaning/lubrication forced me to get the courage to dig into the guts of the things. Considering that the only electrical parts are the motor and the on/off switch, I’m just careful to keep the liquids away from those areas and treat the rest as if it were a mechanical manual machine. I put a thin spout hose on the Blaster so I can direct very small squirts of PB to the areas I want to treat, and don’t really have a problem with it getting on anything else. I’m starting to feel pretty comfortable with the Selectric, Coronet and 5TE mechanisms now. I’ve also gained a deep appreciation of how the Selectric can be completely field-stripped without turning a single screw.

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4. Metin OZDERIN says:

   April 25, 2013 at 12:04 pm

   I do have the same type writer. My fault i have not seen that it works with 110 wolt electric. I had tried it with 220 w. and poor me had seen the smoke. Hope it could be fixed.

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   • munk says:

     April 25, 2013 at 12:57 pm

     You’ll want to check out this post by
     Modernidad y Obsolescencia which discusses the problems with using 220 on an American-wired 110 5TE.

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