A friend of a friend came across this nice Russian typewriter and gave it to me as a present... Didn't have cause to use it for a while though and when I opened it recently, was a little bit dismayed to see it growing a lot of mould on the keys so I'll have to clean it with some alcohol.  Lovely typewriter though but amazingly heavy for a 'portable'...

Darn, I don't think I've got one typewriter with that key... it looks like it would be very useful in my artwork, I love a good dot-matrix... right, I've got something new to look out for!

Hi folks,  I just wanted to share this picture of two new spool nuts that my step-dad very kindly machined for me.  He's a keen amateur horologist so has a watch-maker's lathe, and I thought he'd be up for the job.  The nuts are for an Arabic Olivetti that my bio-dad gave me as a present, which was just missing the spool nuts.  I gave my step dad one from another Olivetti to use as a pattern, and they work a charm... I just owe him a slap-up meal now at the Dog & Bell in Deptford, those were the terms...

Welcome Erboing!  Nice to have you here... there does seem to be a lot of Canadians here, I wonder what the connection is with typewriters..?

teeritz wrote:

My interest in typewriters stems from a romantic notion of writers like Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler hammering away at these glass-topped keys, and Hollywood screenwriters re-writing draft after draft of classic film noir throughout the '40s and '50s.

Hey Teeritz, it's a bit old-hat now but here's a portrait I made of Dashiell Hammett on the typewriter about seven years ago... I guess I am always partial to a little noir...  I guess it works best if you see it from a distance, apologies for the poor photo...