The Royal Portables in 5 parts: Unraveling the Royal Quiet De Luxe – Part 1: Ancestry (Model P, O and B) Unraveling the Royal Quiet De Luxe – Part 2: Birth of the QDL (and siblings) Unraveling the Royal Quiet De Luxe – Part 3: The Post-War Royal Portables (A, B and C Models) Unraveling […]
Month: September 2016
New Typewriter Service Manuals at TWDB!
New service manuals at TWDB, you’ll want to check ’em out! Parts and Service Manual – Olivetti Lettera 22 Parts and Service Manual – Olivetti Studio 44 Parts and Service Manual – Olivetti Lexicon 80 Adjustment Manual – Olympia SM – 1955 AMES Basic Training Manual for Standard Typewriters – 1968 Adjustment Manual, Smith-Corona “6-Series” […]
Scanning Project: Olivetti Service Manuals, Lettera 22, Studio 44, Praxis 48
My scanner’s bein’ a bitch, not letting me scan because it has an empty ink tank. Confounded contraption! Well, I’ll get it figured out – I have to, because I borrowed Bill’s Olivetti Service Manuals for the Lettera 22, Studio 44 and Praxis 48: So that’s on my scanning docket…
UJTU: Will 2016 never end?
It’s been a rough year, hasn’t it? It’s got the feels in spades, and chaos reigns. The future looms full of change that is shaped by rough uncertainty – the road ahead enveloped in a dark thundercloud, forks of lightning striking potholes into the many forks in the road itself. Like Jonah heading for the […]
The Well-Appointed Typewriter Repair Shop from AMES Supply General Catalog 1960
At the height of the typewriter industries importance in world commerce, arguably right about 1960, setting yourself up as a typewriter repair shop was something you could do out of a catalog. In the United States, you could do it out of the AMES General catalog, and the little typewriter shop from whom I borrowed […]
Typewriter Platen Reference, and all Things Made of Rubber: Ames 1960 General Catalog
Some more reference from the wonderful year 1960, when you could shop for new platens and feed rolls like you were customizing a hot rod… For your amusement and edification, the “Rubber Section” from the 1960 AMES Supply General Catalog:
Typewriter Repair Tools Reference: 1960 Ames Catalog
For your entertainment and edification, a reference list of typewriter repairman’s tools offered by AMES Supply Company in 1960: