Currently in the earholes:
Month: April 2023
What the Thrift Gods bring…
Franklin-Covey “Classic” 365 and EDCN Convergence
Note the difference in how each page works in the blog format. The FC365 probably reads best in a browser size where the images are sized at max 1000px wide size.
How to properly describe the condition of a typewriter.
An example of the sort of clarity that I think would be useful when refurbishers are “Reconditioning” typewriters is the issue of platens. I’ll say straight up that a typewriter is not “rebuilt” unless all the rubber bits have been replaced and the platen recovered. By “recovered” I mean the rubber covering of the platen […]
Rebuilding the Wilson-Jones “Hummer” Hole Puncher – Brand New Backstop Guides!
Weapon of Choice: newer Wilson-Jones Hummer set up as 2-Tower, 2-Backstop EDCN format puncher, Punching some new high-gloss KromeKote paper for EDCN testing… Now that I have one Hummer set up for EDCN use, I can combine parts from the two others to make another one. Unfortunately, I have no other original backstop brackets, but […]
The ABQ Gang Invades!
Joe & Ted @ The Drunk Munk (no relation) Tori & Ted, trying not to be annoyed at the live DJ playing completely inappropriate music for a Tiki Bar. Were it me, I’d be spinning Arthur Lyman, The Insect Surfers and Yma Sumac. Typewriter Club Live 2023-04-16 Weapon of Choice: Bill Wahl’s personal desktop SG-1 […]
A New Correspondent! :D
There’s Something About (this package from) Mary!
Report from Mary’s visit
Mail Call, and two pages of photos left to shoot!
Two more pages worth of detail photos to shoot, greyscale, annotate and place in the manuscript. The goal is to break up the pages of text with an equal number of facing illustrative photo pages, and occasionally include a few things not mentioned in the text. If nothing else, doing this is an excellent crash […]
Two Letters Stand Between The Universe and Nothingness…
Mmmmmmm, Tasty Tape
Weapon of Choice: “Thunderbird 2” 1968 Montgomery Ward Signature 440T #B8860433 Sony TCM-200DV Compact Cassette-Corder, Dual-speed with secondary speed control. Like Hainbach says, “Half Speed is Best Speed”
A Couple More Mail Calls!
Typospherian Meet-Up, Zephyr Secured and Mail Call
Antique Alphabet Stamping Set and EDCN Brian G of Buckeye! Mary E. Of MyOldTypewriter.com One of a handful of people who came in to MTE and were treated to an impromptu Typospherian Experience. Our Gang! I was curious to see if I could find replacement shell screws – to the parts manual! a 3-48 Binding […]