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Accessories » WTB: Smith-Corona Calypso ribbon with spools » 17-2-2015 07:43:05

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Yeah, seems so. It has two metal "reel holders" (I'm guessing that's what they are) but I don't think they're meant to serve as ribbon reels.

Type Talk » New Member Thread » 15-2-2015 19:00:44

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I'll put a photo up tomorrow, just about to go to sleep now.

The author is Garth Nix.

Portable Typewriters » Silver ReedSilverette II (decased) » 15-2-2015 18:56:18

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I took the case off to try and fix something with the rollers. (It didn't work,  so I just cleaned it instead.) It looks decidedly much cooler without the case, so I took photos.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ws43xtz3x3xtnwm/2015-02-15-19-11-37_photo.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6vlrw3a94t6qw7d/2015-02-15-19-10-59_photo.jpg?dl=0

Early Typewriters » Blickensderfer Featherwight » 15-2-2015 18:49:06

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That is a bloody beautiful machine. Such a strange shape,  yet somehow elegant despite it. I'm very jealous. (And the box really does look like a treasure chest, but with a better treasure than most.)

Accessories » WTB: Smith-Corona Calypso ribbon with spools » 15-2-2015 16:54:34

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I'm looking for a ribbon for the aforementioned typewriter, but all the ones I can find online are ribbon only. Anyone have anything helpful?

Type Talk » New Member Thread » 15-2-2015 14:06:38

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Nice! This one's in pretty good condition, aside from all the rubber being a bit on the hard side. Bit noisy, but a solid and reliable little thing. I remember I saw it and nearly didn't buy it, but then remembered reading in the front of a book that my favourite author (who has been so for as long as I can remember) had owned and used a Silver Reed, and that was it. I had to have it. One of my favourite purchases ever.

I've seen maybe four or five in the area near where I live in the past several years that I've been checking charity shops regularly (two of them I bought, the others were at various points on the ugly grey plastic electrical scale), so they're not all that common. The Silverette was in a larger branch of Oxfam which sold even furniture, and the mysterious Smith Corona was rather wonderfully in a books-only branch of Help the Aged. I do go round the charity shops there at least once a week now though, just in case there's a typewriter.

The theme was to do with making things out of other things, which progressed to making trees (and a few other things) out of books, since books are made from trees. The typewriter was my final piece, and is currently decoupaged in book pages and photos of leaves from magazines and has a wire tree attached to one of the ink spools (didn't come with an ink ribbon). It's in perfect working order, I made very sure not to damage it. I would remove the tree and get it working, but I don't want to end up with my project getting called for moderation and have to explain that I dismantled what's worth a quarter of the overall mark. I'll put a photo up if I can figure out how and where.

Parts » Looking for a Silver-Reed Silverette II platen » 14-2-2015 13:02:24

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Thanks. Should I remove the platen to use it? Or will it be okay left in the machine? Mainly because I have no faith in my ability to disassemble and reassemble a typewriter and have it function afterwards.

Parts » Looking for a Silver-Reed Silverette II platen » 14-2-2015 12:56:19

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I haven't, what kind of places sell it? Would a local hardware shop, or will I need to find a specialist?

Maintenance & Repairs » Help Please: Jamming type bars on my Silver Reed Silverette II » 14-2-2015 12:41:53

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I have exactly the same problem on the same model - design fault maybe? I can't seem to make it work no matter how I adjust it. The 1/3 bar jams and won't even strike the paper, but if I adjust the gaps so that it strikes, the += bar strikes but jams and won't fall back.

Type Talk » New Member Thread » 14-2-2015 12:32:21

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I'm Magpie. I live in South Yorkshire, England, UK. I'm an artist and writer amongst other things.

I own a Silver-Reed Silverette II (which I saw in a charity shop and bought on a whim) and a Smith Corona Calypso (I think, it's currently occupied with being part of an art project.)

I have a thing for old and/or mechanical machines, and typewriters fall slap bang in the middle of that.

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