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- Is Fear Keeping You From Doing What You Love? The Typewriter Doctor can Help You With That. @ tayarijones.com
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- Niche Market: Typewriters @ WNYC
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- Return of the Typewriter @ NECN.com
- Schreibmaschinen: Renaissance der Mechanik @ imgriff.com
- Snohomish man favors typewriters over email, cellphones @ The Herald
- The typewriter lives on in India @ LA Times
- The Typewriter: Decidedly Not Dead! @ The Herald Online
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- Typewriters Strike the Right Keys with Collectors @ Collector's Quest
- Vintage typewriters are in style again @ The San Francisco Chronicle
- Vintage Typewriters have become Collectors Items for the Digital Generation @ LoHud.com
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The Second Phoenix Typewriter Round-Up – Saturday June 18, 2011
Category Archives: Typewriters In The Corral
Ask Not For Whom The Typewriter Bone Tingles: It Tingles For Me!
BTW, I’m a total space case – the proper term for the DuPont finishes for these Coronas is “DUCO” not “Decco“, Hlur.
Report: Phoenix Typewriter Round-Up / Type-In 3
Magic Margin is correct – this was the best Phoenix Type-In yet! Loads of new faces and old friends graced the event, and the press came too. Megan Finnerty from AZ Central came and did stories for the AZ Central website, The Arizona Republic paper and the NBC affiliate Channel 12 News (link to video [...]
Adventures in cleaning typewriter crinkle paint
I had to go out to way south Queen Creek this weekend, and on the way back, I hit a few Goodwills that were on the trail. I found one manual machine, a beat-up Royal 440, and stacks of wedges and other electrics. Left ‘em all behind…
A Tombstone Royal Day
Sadly, that last line of faint text is all that would come out of the QDL when it arrived…
Inspecting “Kipling” the Noisy Noiseless
UPDATE! I’ve inspected the underside of the machine and found a brittle leather pad (or at least bits of it) which appear to be the mechanism for stopping the keys at the proper distance from the platen: As to where I’m going to find a replacement for this, I dunno. I suppose I could make [...]