And we're back!

Took a look at the back of the machine after watching some YouTube videos. I think these are the screws I'm looking for but I'm not sure:

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What way do I turn it and what tool size would fit? 

Pete E. wrote:

Hi Tobias,

Type the following "test" along the paper at the left, center, and right side of the platen.

Post up a photo of the results.

HhHhHhHhHhHhHhHh                                 HhHhHhHhHhHhHh                         HhHhHhHhHh

If the letters are not even along the bottoms and some tops are faint, you may need to look for the adjustment screws to align the Upper and Lower case with each other.

Is this Japan-made "Facit" a segment-shfting or a carriage-shifting typewriter ?

Here's a picture:

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The whole thing lifts up when I hit the shift key. Like it does on my Adler Tippa!

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thetypewriter wrote:

I've been looking at some Remington and managed to find one online! Haven't bought it yet but it's a Remington Deluxe Model 5 from 1940. The price is approximately $70, Ii with it?

Worth noting that it doesn't include case of ribbon!

Autocorrect. Case OR ribbon!
 

Picture #3: This fullpage ad is a bit different from the ones we're used to see these days. The translation reads:

Does your children have a typewriter?

[i]"You can say that they don’t need one just because you didn’t needed one when you were in their age.

Take a look in their school books and see how nice they are. Easy to read, clear, instructive and full of knowledge. Far away from the ones you had in school.

In the new school age, the education is both more effective and more interesting. And the duration is longer. Everybody goes at least nine years in school. Four out of five goes on to university etc. We got rid of the matriculation examination but we educate a new generation. Machine typing makes its way into the children’s schedules from seventh class. In a few years, you’ll most likely start at an even earlier age. Everybody will presume that everybody will be able to use a typewriter. Your children won’t even write their love letters by hand. Only their signatures.

You can say that a typewriter is not a toy and way too expensive to give to a child.

You couldn’t be more wrong.
When children are playing, they’re adults. They are parents, indians but they’re never children. The best toys are almost never toys but real things straight from the adult world. Real clothes to get dressed in. Real tools. A guitar is a toy for the musical child. A typewriter is a toy for the one that can write. Be happy. That you can learn real things through playing. That learning can be fun. Sure, a typewriter is expensive. Facit Privat, including accessories, costs 450-600 kr. But it comes with a ten year warranty. Children can be tough on their toys. And you can probably borrow it from your children if you promise to be careful. Adults can easily break things.

You can argue that it’s cheeky of us to take advantage of your children just to sell typewriters.

You’re almost right. We want that you should buy a

I found a switch yesterday that made the left one work. But is one of the wheels supposed to be hard as a rock and one moving freely? Or are both of them supposed to be spinning freely?




Many thanks for your help and pardon my rookieness!