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| Maintenance & Repairs » Smith Corona Corsair - A few missing parts? » 16-4-2014 06:39:04 |
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Hello all,
Been very busy over the last several weeks but I've finally had a chance to take some photos and update on the whole repair. Thanks to Tom Lucas (aka "The Typewriter Man") I Managaed to source all the components i needed inlcuding a new platen, carridge cover, the white lever covers, semi-colon key as the one on mine was off a different machine. The whole machine now works as intended - advancing only one or two lines at a time, it's a lot better than what it was. Anyways i'll leave you with some photos as it may help someone in the future who might have similiar issues. Also thanks again to Uwe for all your help and input along this journey!
Anyways may be back here in the future when i get my Olympia SM3!
All the best,
Jayson
| Maintenance & Repairs » Smith Corona Corsair - A few missing parts? » 22-2-2014 04:05:33 |
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Morning Uwe,
Yeh I'm always on the net asking questions and know when it comes to taking photos it's best to try and cover all angles with as much detail as possible. I pretty sure i know exactly what you mean now regarding photo 3, see edited image below. The platen can move up to four lines - very annoying so we avoid using the carriage return lever as just that and manual push the carriage then use the lever to careful feed the paper one line.
Anyays hoping this guy im getting the spring from might also have the other part, i'll keep you up to date. Also on another note - i knida joined these forums basically to just get help with my girlfriends Corsair but after you talking about Olympias I've found myself really wanting one, some beautiful examples on Youtube, the typing looks so much lighter and responsive compared to this thing!
Cheers again,
Jayson
| Maintenance & Repairs » Smith Corona Corsair - A few missing parts? » 21-2-2014 06:52:32 |
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Thanks for getting back to me with the spring dimensions Uwe - luckily a Uk forum member PM'd me that he has the spring I'm after and can have it for a few quid inc postage, saves me a bit of hassle.
Anyways been meaing to get some images and post them up but the girlfriend has been on the typewriter a lot this week and I've only just got around to doing it. If you guys wouldn't mind just having a wee look. The first photo just shows everything I've taken off the typewriter, the hex key bolts have been left in the platen knobs. Now apart from the obvious missing cosmetic parts and spring are there any other issues you guys can spot? The line spacing lever (the one that swtiches between 1 & 2) doesn't seem to interact with the rest of the system so I'm thinking I may be missing something there too?
Anyways appreciate the help,
Cheers
Jayson
| Maintenance & Repairs » Smith Corona Corsair - A few missing parts? » 16-2-2014 05:27:01 |
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Hi Uwe,
Thanks for getting back to us - greatly appreciated. Yeh I havn't read the best of things about this machine in terms of quality but it's not me using it and the misses likes the inconsistencies and wonky letters (i did attempt to bend them straight and was told to bend them back!) Plus it was only £10 i didn't feel i could go wrong with it. Anyways looking from the photos it looks like it might just be a spring - the arm probbaly looks mishapen in some of the photos but that is just due to the fact i can lift the arm at different angles without the limitations/ resistance of the missing spring. Amazon sell boxes of assorted springs so may pick up one and experiment as i need some more springs for other projects. Out of interest would you be able to give us a rough measurement of the spring when fully retracted?
I may take a few more bits off and put up some more photos incase theres other pieces missing from that area. It is abit annoying about the chipped/ cracked casing and missing plastic levers but luckily these are just cosmetic flaws, I'm assuming platen release is for removal of the platen?
All the best,
Jayson
| Maintenance & Repairs » Smith Corona Corsair - A few missing parts? » 14-2-2014 14:40:41 |
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| Maintenance & Repairs » Smith Corona Corsair - A few missing parts? » 14-2-2014 14:39:12 |
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Also does anyone know if the lever next to the line spacing width lever is the carriage lock lever? If so am i right in thinking towards the user is "LOCKED - for travelling" away from the user is "UNLOCKED - for typing."
| Maintenance & Repairs » Smith Corona Corsair - A few missing parts? » 14-2-2014 14:36:08 |
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Hi all and greetings from the UK,
I've recently purchased a second hand Smith Corona Corsair for my lady who's just getting into producing her own zines. It was in decent working condition when i recieved it and just needed a thorough clean. Now the problem I'm having is with the carriage return lever and line spacing. I am pretty sure I am missing a spring to keep the arm afloat as it rests on the typewritter hood and is pretty limp. Also no matter if the line spacing switch is on 1 or 2 it return the page up to 4 times depending on the position of the lever. If anyone with this typewriter or a similiar model could take the time to observe the following photos and compare it to their own I'd really appreciate it. You can see on the the arm there is a little hole which i believe is where one end of a small spring would fix on to.
I've just realised i cannot post links (for pics until i've posted a couple of times) Please scroll down for photos.
Anyways thank you in advance - all feedback welcome.
Jayson
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