Weapon of Choice: “Thunderbird 2” 1968 Montgomery Ward Signature 440T #B8860433 It’s been a bit since I’ve browsed through Muse Technical’s Department store catalog archive, but the other night someone asked about an 80’s-era Penncrest machine on the FB – and that set me to looking at the archive again. What I’ve found is that […]
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Adjusting Ring & Cylinder on a Brother JP-1
Weapon of Choice: 1978 Brother Charger 11 #K83712885 Typewriter Club LIVE: 2022-01-23 Time to make some notes in your JP-1 Repair Bible. You make notes in your Bible, right? The following pages are from the Silver-Seiko 700 Series Repair Bible, and they have a clearer explanation of the process of Ring & Cylinder/Platen Parallel and […]
Brothers, Books, Administrators and Feets!
Weapon of Choice: 1978 Brother Charger 11 #K83712885 Some other books I picked up cheap this month. I really like the looks of the Administrator – all sorts of beveled edges like a diamond. Fascinating mechanical design as well. Almost all of the important bits are built into the bottom of the carriage *in between […]
Taming The Tinny Typing Sound of a Brother JP-1 Typewriter (Part 3 – the Finale?)
Weapon of Choice: 1978 Brother Charger 11 #K83712885 It was back in 2015 that I started pondering the problem of silencing the tinny sound of the Brother JP-1. In 2017, I shrinktubed the platen, along with a couple others. To adjust ring & cylinder on a JP-1 is done by loosening these two screws on […]
Brother EP-22 (versus Brother EP-20)
Weapon of Choice: 1983 Brother EP-22. Until I actually picked one up, I thought that the Brother EP-20 and EP-22 were the same size. Turns out, while the top shell for both was clearly pressed from the same mold, the bottom shell on the EP-22 is almost a quarter inch deeper than the EP-20. It […]
Screeds in the Rain & a Favorite Brother JP-1
Weapon of Choice: Thunderbird 3, 1966 Montgomery Wards Signature 440T Someone in the Facebook ATC asked today what our favorite Brother JP-1 variations are, and by happenstance, I had just spent a drizzly afternoon yesterday outside with one of mine, the 1966 Monkey Ward Signature 440T. Yesterday was all about screeds, unfortunately – stuff I […]
Weird crossover daisywheel machine: Brother Correctronic 8300
Weapon of Choice: 1982 Brother Correctronic 8300 Dealer plaque for Tempe Typewriters, another one lost to time – though not really that long ago.
Brothers Under The Skin: A Defense of 21st Century Chinese Typewriters
Weapon of Choice: 2006 Generation 3000 with Transplant 1981 JP-7 Engine. Oddly, the ribbon cover latches are reversed between the two shell designs. You lift up the back on the JP-7, but lift the front on the G3k. Both shells have 4 screws at the bottom that are removed to take the shell off. the […]
The Brothers 3
Weapon of Choice: 1971 Remington Automatic 612 (Brother JP-4) I’m also working on a package for Joe, and according to the audio letter he sent, I have about 3 months to fill up the opposite side of the tape. Well now, 3 months is enough time to fill up a whole box, I’d think. Since […]
Brother IF-50 Computer to Typewriter Interface User manual
I’m guessing a lot of these IF-50 Computer Interface boxes that allow certain port-equipped Brother Typewriters to act as printers for many 8-Bit 1980’s computers exist, but have long ago been separated from their absolutely essential user manuals. If you’re in that situation, you’re in luck because I’ve scanned mine. Enjoy! (:
Rainy Day Appreciation of my 1981 Montgomery Wards Escort 550 (Brother JP-7)
Weapon of Choice: 1981 Montgomery Ward Escort 550 (Brother JP-7) This typewriter as offered in the 1981 Montgomery Ward Christmas Catalog Nearing the last stand for Manual and Electric Typebar machines offered by Monkey Ward. By 1984, only the electric is offered alongside various electronic wedges, the new Brother Type-O-Graph and a selection of home […]
Brother BP30 Type-O-Graph In Action (videos!)
For those who have asked, and any others interested in the Type-O-Graph’s unique typewriting action:
The Handwriting, Drawing Typewriter: Brother Type-O-Graph BP-30, with User Manual!
You know, there’s just something that really jazzes me about these little Brother mini-typewriters from the early 1980’s – maybe it’s the inventiveness that Brother showed in trying out so many really unique ways of re-engineering the mechanics of the way a typewriter works – that kind of inventiveness in the typewriter industry really only […]
Mini-Wedge Redux: Brother EP5 Electronic Typewriter
Taming The Tinny Typing Sound of a Brother JP-1 Typewriter
Baby Wedge Redux: Brother EP-44
For your edification (and because electronic baby wedges *need* user manuals, unlike most typewriters) I present to you my PDF scan of the Brother EP-44 User Manual. Enjoy!
Rounding out Baby Wedge Week: All The Brother EP Series
Thermal Baby Wedges, boy I’ve sure been on a kick all week and having a lot of fun. For the record, I still haven’t run down a set of batteries – these thermal babies really seem to sip the juice. I poked the only other collector I know of who owns one of these Brother […]
Brother EP-20 Dot-Matrix Portable Typewriter – Welcome to 1983!
I think this kind of typewriter is the portable of the future… – Martin Goldshine, executive vice president of Silver Reed America Inc. (1983) NEW TYPEWRITERS JOIN THE COMPUTER AGE (NY Times, September 1983) Brother EP-20 Typewriter User Manual
How to Re-Spool a Brother Typewriter Ribbon Cassette (JP-10/12)
It’s nice having a fellow Typospherian only a few blocks away – handy for having someone around who might just like the machines that you feel guilty about not buying, but just don’t quite want for yourself. Key Snap and I tend to text each other when we see a machine in the thrifts that […]
Thrift Gods Hear My Plea: Brother Professional 90 and IF-50 Computer Interface
Now, guess what I’m going to be doing with this baby? If your guess involves certain Paleocomputers I keep in my corral, your guess would be correct. Stay tuned for 1980’s style printing fun! In the meantime, how about we let the Brother Professional 90 tell us a bit about itself: PS: 5 more to […]
Brother Hunt: JP-5 Found in the Wild, Again!
Brother JP-8 Discovered, 3 Remaining Missing Brothers
Yep, these are 21st Century Brothers 1987 JC Penny Christmas Catalog, the very latest mention I can find of the JP-1 being sold new. The Brother JP-8 Parts and Service Manuals Detailed view of Potential Brother JP-6 Detailed View of Potential Brother JP-13
Typewriter Database Update – “Operation Typewriter Hunt: Brother”
I’m hip-deep in the rewrite of the Brother Serial Number Page at the Typewriter Database this week, so if you have a Brother machine uploaded to the Database, please log in and check the comments on your Brother galleries. I’ve probably been badgering you about your machine. (: A Work In Progress, that page is. […]
How To Date Your Brother (typewriter), Part One: The Serial Number and how to interpret it.
Brother Serial Numbers Unified for all models?
So, I paged through the bulk of the Brother documentation, and it looks like I have pretty good coverage of Brother models between the late 70’s to the early 90’s, very heavy on the 80’s. Good news for Brother Electric appreciators. This documentation extends up to the WP series word processor line and at least […]
A Brotherly Bonanza
Interesting, eh? I was at MTE today poking around at stacks of old service manuals (a large leather-bound Victor Calculator Service Manual binder caught my attention, but it turned out to be filled with the service manual for a Smith-Corona Electric), and Bill mentioned that he had 2 boxes of old Brother service manuals that […]
Deja Vu All Over Again – The Twin Brother
My other 1968 Monkey Ward 440T The 1968 Monkey Wards catalog that shows these 440Ts A Review of the Minolta Hi-Matic AF Adorama Step-down adapter, 52mm-46mm Interesting Note: If you compare this machine’s serial number to the other 440T, you’ll see that “Thunderbird I” (A8823345) rolled off the line in January 1968, and 37,088 machines […]
The OMEF Age Guides, 1971-1980: Brother Typewriters
With many thanks to Peter Brill in Australia and Rob Bowker in the UK, we have obtained copies of three known editions of the OMEF Typewriter Age Guide: October 1971, December 1973 and October 1980. A differently sourced copy of the 1973 edition is what was used as Source #6 by Dirk Schumann in compiling […]
The Hot Hot Heat and further ruminations on a 1988 Brother Charger 11
Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? (“right here in this thrift store”, says the Typewriter Bone)
Return Of The Typewriter Bone: 1968 Monkey Wards Signature 440T (Brother)
And, just for Adwoa, some more sewing machine sightings. She remarked about the table the last one was mounted in, and it’s worth noting that around these parts, probably 70% of the sewing machines I see are mounted in nice tables, usually very swank Danish-style tables…
A Brother “Webster” XL-747 Typewriter and a visit to a far-away Typewriter Guy
Links: Cards Against Humanity Cameron Kopf’s Webster XL-747 Robert Messenger’s lengthy and detailed post on Brother Typewriters Brother Manuals at Machines of Loving Grace More on Brother Typewriters
Brother, can ya spare $6.99 for a decent writing machine?
Some Links: The replacement ribbons seem to still be manufactured, and cost about $6 each. The Brother AX-28 Typewriter User’s Manual. (handy for figuring out all the funky functions and modes) Mr. Martin’s Typewriter Museum. Scroll down to see his Brother AX-28. Some Other Links to nifty typewriter news stories I found today: Hoflander: in […]
Mail Call: More Chops Than A Chinese Typewriter & A Cute and Delightful Surprise!
The Poor Typist: Thermal Typing & Thermal Instant Photography Self-portrait with toy Thermal Printing Camera. Returned to the Corral: 1980 Western Auto (Brother) Citation Correction #D03204773 Currently in the earholes:
The Japanese Typewriter Datecode Theory (a work in progress)
There’s a theory I’ve been pondering – a datecode theory that is exceedingly simple and once you think about it, surprisingly obvious and relatively easy to prove now that we have quite a lot of example machine galleries in the TWDB and someone who has devoted his collection and research to the age of Electronic […]