The More You Know: Using typeface alignment tool and repairing or replacing typeface slugs. From: The Royal FP, MC Empress, 440 & 470 Typewriter Repair Shop Manual – 426 Pages.
The More You Know: Using typeface alignment tool and repairing or replacing typeface slugs. From: The Royal FP, MC Empress, 440 & 470 Typewriter Repair Shop Manual – 426 Pages.
Nice tool.
I’ve thought of making something to hold typebars for soldering when I had machine shop access. Never did make one.
This feels daunting to an imprecise guy like me.
Ted, thanks for this post — but reading this I think you might need a whole category beyond Typewriter Repair 101. Perhaps Typewriter Advanced Calculus or Typewriter Quantum Mechanics. Fascinating to read, but I’m with Richard: this does look daunting.
Quite possibly as intimidating as the idea of dragon dentistry. Whenever I use a typer with a slug replacement, I will pause for a moment to reflect and appreciate even more.
This would be a great topic in our live stream about typefaces!
Hi, there,
Anybody willing to sell a type-slug soldering gauge?
Also, a typebar bending pliers?
Let me know, I’m an interested buyer.
Regards,
Calin