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Paper 101 – Part 4: Formulas for Estimators
Paper 101 – Part 3: Paper Types
And to Joe VC: note rule #8 above – this is why cutting 11″x17″ paper in half results in 8.5″x11″ paper that goes around a typewriter platen real easy. Factory-cut, wrapped reams are *always* long grain for the given size, so cutting them in half results in short-grain paper. Thus, the same applies to cutting […]
Paper 101 – Part 2: Paper Arithmetic
Boy, I’ll say that paging through this old binder has awoken a lot of memories for me, and this section on Paper Arithmetic reminded me of the first paper guillotine we had at the print shop – a quarter-ton cast iron 32″ full-manually operated Challenge from the 1920’s. Wrestling that beast to cut down parent […]
Paper 101 – Part 1: Basic Sizes and Weights of Printing and Writing Papers
Hey, I found my old binder of printers tips and articles from when I was a working offset press operator in the 1990’s. I was delighted to dig this up, as it contains loads of knowledge about paper, inks, printing techniques and terminology that was invaluable back in the day when you could make a […]
Drago and a nice scan of an Underwood #5 Pica Paper Scale
Words are Winged: Tuning an Underwood 5
Thermal Typewriting on Thermally Printed Photos!
Weapon of Choice: 1986 Canon Typestar 4 #Q12013213 I noted that at least 2 of my stamp pad inkers use an ink that when stamped on a thermal sheet, eventually soaks in over a couple of hours and bleached the black out of the image where the ink sinks in, leaving that stamp on white […]
Canon Powershot S3is – It’s full of ACID and Error E24, can I fix it?
Welp, I figured this $5 Powershot S3is from 2006 was sold as “Parts” due to the Goodwill not knowing that it took AA batteries. The notes on the listing said the store “couldn’t figure out how to charge it”, so it seemed like a good bet. Today it came in the mail, and I was […]
More Books, an 1888 Hammond 1 and a nifty Corona 3 Case
Yay! We found the AMES General Catalog No. 7, 1949! We can now add this to 1940 No.5, 1946 No.100, 1955 No.9, 1960 No.10 and 1965 No.11 – 386 pages of typewriter parts, tools and products for the nation’s typewriter dealers added to the timeline. (: Whoops, make that serial #9016, not 9015. The left […]
Montgomery Ward Typewriters 1941-1985, Signatures, Forwards and Escorts and why certain rare Royal Typefaces can be found on Brother Typewriters!
Weapon of Choice: “Thunderbird 2” 1968 Montgomery Ward Signature 440T #B8860433 It’s been a bit since I’ve browsed through Muse Technical’s Department store catalog archive, but the other night someone asked about an 80’s-era Penncrest machine on the FB – and that set me to looking at the archive again. What I’ve found is that […]
Adjusting Ribbon Lift on Hermes Rocket & Baby & Empire Aristocrat
Weapon of Choice: “Monster Scouts Field Typewriter Mark 1” 1956 Empire Aristocrat #S2/268670 Typewriter Club LIVE – Sep 26, 2021 The Hermes Baby and Rocket Typewriter Repair Bible [Printed, Coil-Bound Book] [PDF] The Service Manual covers the Left-Hand lift Bichrome mechanism, but my Aristocrat is a Right-hand single-color lift mechanism. Arrows point to the relevant […]
Staplers, Stapling Machines & Fasteners – Volume 1, a Review
Ooh, look what came in the mail today! This is a book I’ve been waiting a few months for, and it’s been very much worth the wait. I wrote a bit about this project before, when I’d seen an earlier, incomplete version of the manuscript, and I was quite excited about it then. Now that […]
Happy Typewriter Day! Now Turn your Bibles to Chapter…
Happy World Typewriter Day! It warms the cockles to see the celebration of this day spread the globe. No longer does the world require seed agency – the people are WOKE and events now spring up like fairy circles in the morning mist. The largest living organism in the world is not a Kraken, it’s […]
Thriftin’ Report: Western Auto Typewriter, Toyota Yarn Baller and IBM Balls…
1980 Western Auto logo? I know I say 1970 here, but I’m beginning to think that Brother switched the JP-1 to black keys from white and lost the paper rest and metal carriage shell sometime in the late 70’s. If true, it means we would be able to figure out what decade (roughly) a JP-1 […]