Typewriter TV – Episode One
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Typewriter Books for Collectors
By: Will Davis, the author of the Typewriters by Will Davis page and the co-author of The Davis Typewriter Works blog.
http://willdavis.org
https://davistypewriters.blogspot.com/
Bonus Youtube content from the Davis Bros. who are basically the Click & Clack of typewriters:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkoFvwDFlV9HxlBxL3Yilag/videos
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A Quick Lesson on Recovering Typewriter Feed Rollers with Inexpensive Shrink Tubing
By: Tyler Anderson, the Secretary/Treasurer of the Early Typewriter Collector’s Association and the author of The Fox Typewriter Company, the definitive volume on Fox typewriters.
Bonus! New video on the rare Masspro portable from Tyler’s Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb9-KoqZUKI
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Type-Ins:
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2020-01-11
Saturday, January 11, 2020 — 11AM to 3PM
@ Graphite Pencil + Paper
211 North Tennessee Avenue
in McKinney, Texas
Typewriters provided – Writing activities, games and a drawing for a free typewriter!
2020-01-25
Saturday, January 25, 2020
@ Southeastern Railway Museum.
3595 Buford Hwy. Duluth, GA 30096
Typewriters *and* trains!
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Call for submissions: Cold Hard Type III
Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2020
Submit your work to Richard Polt by e-mail or post (see the end of this post). It will be reviewed by Polt (author of The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist’s Companion for the 21st Century, https://typewriterrevolution.com) novelist Fred Durbin (http://www.fredericsdurbin.com), and English professor Andrew McFeaters (https://theuntimelytypewriter.com).
The maximum length for texts is 5000 words.
Poetry, art, and photography are welcome, as long as they fit the theme of the book.
To give your work the best chance of being accepted, we recommend that you read the first two volumes in the Cold Hard Type series, Paradigm Shifts and Escapements, and reflect on what you like about your favorite pieces.
http://typosphere.blogspot.com/2019/11/call-for-submissions-cold-hard-type-iii.html
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Where to find Typewriter Ribbons
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Speedy Inks bichrome Adler T6-77B 12-Pack $9.99
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AIVB6GM
LD Black Ribbon Adler T6-77B 24-Pack $19.98
https://www.amazon.com/LD-Compatible-T6-77B-Printer-Ribbons/dp/B01AIVJGIM
Baco Ribbon (bulk rolls and colors) Charlene
Bacoribbon@sbcglobal.net
Phone: 314-835-9300
Fax: 636-394-5475
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Music: “Dreaming in 432Hz” by Unicorn Heads
Thanks Ted! Nice video.
I generally use fuel line for the small rollers and heat shrink for platens. One thing not mentioned is that rolling the roller or plate on a hard smooth surface before it cools will help ensure it is round. Also, when using a flame such as a candle, match, or lighter, care must be taken not to blacken the heat shrink. It’s only soot which can generally be removed with alcohol, but sometimes not completely. On a platen it will not look too good. I also leave a little extra length so the entire length of what I want to cover remains covered, then trim the extra.
Those books are nice. Some I’ve not heard of before. Others I’ve been searching for at affordable prices, and then the ultimate book: American Typewriters, A Collector’s Encyclopedia by Paul Lippman. I think the last copy I found for sale was $500 plus shipping!
Yeah, Lippman’s book is tough to find at a reasonable price. I think I paid $200+ for my copy. /:
I just looked up the ribbons on Amazon. They are the same ones Joe Van Cleave posted a nice review about on his blog.
So glad you’re using ISO 8601. I wish it would spread faster. I’ve been using it a lot in recent medical interactions (“…and what is your date of birth?”) and almost everyone takes it in stride. In other news, I’ll be sure to watch the vid this evening. Thanks.
oh, heh – yeah I use that date format because it sorts correctly in filesystems. :D
I like how you were able to incorporate others’ videos into this episode. I hope the series will become a go-to source for typewriters news.
Thanks for mentioning CHT III.
One book I would highly recommend is Adler’s The Writing Machine. He debunks various national myths (no, Mitterhoffer was not “THE inventor of THE typewriter”—sorry, Tyroleans) and establishes many facts that, I think, have held up over the decades.
I feel like there is enough interesting things happening in the scene that there was needed a short, fast program that gathers these things together and points them out to people. A video blogroll, if you will. the response has been encouraging so far. :D
I’ll add your recommendation to the next episode – I wanted to also point out Janine Vangool’s “The Typewriter – A Graphic History of the Beloved Machine”, so I can put ’em both in the same update segment.