$25. It's pretty close to working. I think it just needs to be cleaned and such. But I don't know anything about servicing IBM Electrics, and I choose to accept that I'm not going to figure it out. And so, as much as I loved the idea of proportionately spaced recipe cards, I'm ready to let it find a better home.
Motor works great, power roller works great, carriage return and automatic line spacer works great, tab stops work, and the machine overall is very sprightly.
Local pickup is strongly preferred because this is heavy, large, and internally fragile. I'm in Taylor County, Texas, but willing to drive up to 3 hours each way in return for a minor contribution to the gas tank fund.
I will be driving to Houston on August 20th and also to Fort Worth (it's next to Dallas) the week after. So if you're in either of those cities, I am more than willing to put this in the car and detour to bring it to you.
I will be sure to update when it's sold. So if I haven't, it's still here and waiting for you!




List of problems (aka why this is so cheap):
-Ribbon feeder is too gummed up to feed.
-This uses carbon-film ribbon and I honestly don't want to deal with special-ordering it.
-Left margin only works sporadically. Sometimes, when you press the return key, the carriage goes all the way to the end of the rail and bonks into a dead stop.
-Some of the letters don't make a good impression (see pictures).
-The line-finder mechanism (which, according to the instructions, allows you to automatically revert to a previous line after making a correction) may or may not work.
-The sound-dampening foam is, of course, crumbling away.





 

I'm in Taylor County, Texas. So shipping shouldn't be so bad in the lower 48.

I've read that the Aristocrat was the 2nd-tier model, but I've looked through dozens of photos of both and can't see what features one has that the other lacks. What am I not noticing?

I have an IBM Model D Executive typewriter that looks just like this one: https://www.si.edu/object/ibm-model-d-executive-typewriter:nmah_856656
Well, mine isn't in that pristine of condition, but that's why it was on Facebook Marketplace instead of the Smithsonian.

It takes carbon ribbons. I've seen a few carbon cassettes out there, but does anyone make new carbon spools for this machine?
It needs some work (some of the letters are too sluggish to make an impression, and the ribbon advance frequently gets stuck). But before I try to get it fixed, I don't want a typewriter that requires me to hunt for 40-year-old NOS ribbons on Ebay. Can I still get new ribbons for it?
 

Pete E. wrote:

Hello Anastar,

Welcome to the Forum !

By chance, do you happen to live in the USA ?

If so, you could keep an eye out of ShopGoodwill.com for such an Underwood-Olivetti machine.  Many times you can win a parts-machine for less that $ 10 plus some shipping.  Ribbon covers are really hard to find for sale just by themselves an dif you do, a seller wants $ 40 or more just for a cover.

Part-machines can yield a ribbon cover and other spare parts for your parts-stash.
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I will do that. But it'll have to be one that's in quite a bad state. I'd hate to start gutting a perfectly good machine.