Thanks, CoronaJoe. I did a few pages on that Royal 10 today. The margin release is a bit temperamental, but I know what the issue is. It prints nicely, but it's loud! The frequency of the type slug hit is just the right pitch and decibel level to provoke a headache. Three sheets of paper and it doesn't matter. I need to wear earplugs. I had a Smith Corona Classic 12 that was the same way.

On to the latest. A Skyriter! This is my first one of these and I'm smitten. So snappy, so petite. And it's so polite. It just wants to churn page after page.



Very clean. I love how the carriage tilts back to shift. It makes it light and fast. The key action is snappy, quick, and assured.





I like my Lettera 32 and both of my 22s, but this Skyriter is now the go-to typewriter for sitting out on the deck and writing pages.

It may be a little ragged, but I think this is my ticket into the club. I'm proud to present my first SG. SN: 7-6113000, which makes it a 1960 according to TWDB.

I did a cursory clean up to get the weird smell of scented candles out of it. I typed four lines then immediately grabbed a screwdriver to take off the body panels so I could de-gunk the insides it a little. The sound deadening foam on the inside of the body pieces disintegrated under my fingers, so I'll have to find something to replace that when I do a more serious clean up.

There's some light rust on the type bars, and someone got super crazy with the white-out. But all of that is nothing, for this thing is types like a dream! No paper support, no surprise there. 



Came home from my long drive to get  it up and found that the ribbons I ordered earlier this week weer waiting in the mailbox. Popped a new one in the machine. I'd say it's printing pretty well! A bit of ghosting when my type action gets lazy.






 

I had this issue today. I've got my eye on a craigslist SG-1 for a good price, but it's a kind of long drive. I want to know what the typeface is before I go all the way there.. The response I got back. "At this time I don't have more descriptive pictures." I'm assuming they aren't able to get to the machine easily. I don't know. But it's frustrating because I think the machine will clean up nicely and I so desperately want an SG-1.

At least it's better than the posts for: "typewriter $100 needs ink tape.: And there's no picture at all.

A quick update to say I've fixed the main issue with the Tippa S. The bearing "sled" the carriage rides on has a single tiny sprocket (just on one side) that was not tracking well. Really frustrating. I studied it for a while, then decided there was no fixing it the root cause, I decided to delete the root cause.

I clipped the little sprocket off, reinstalled the carriage and now it works well, with no sticking. Probably not the ideal fix, but I was seriously thinking of practicing my discus-throwing skills with that machine ;)

So now I have a useable, if flimsy, Adler in my collection!

 

As requested by KatLondon . . . the Adler Tippa S 
I got this typer via a shopgoodwill.com auction. Honestly, I hadn't remembered bidding  (I tend to peruse the listings when I can't sleep, so sometimes these things happen). Anyway, I was excited to get my hands on any Adler, having heard good things online. So it was with great anticipation that I tore into the box. 

The experience did not start off well, but I'm happy to say the Tippa now works for the most part. It started off not printing very well and randomly stopping in its tracks. The carriage jittered and jounced as I typed.

So I took the carriage off and to see why it was so loose on its little track. I did not figure this out. But when I reassmbled, things seemed to be better aligned and some problems (such as the carriage just deciding to stop in the middle of a line) had magically resolved themselves. Another issue--the carriage stopping right at the bell and allowing overtyping was because the drawband was incorrectly attached to the carriage. The band itself was interfering with the right margin stop. Fixed! I am not a particularly mechanically inclined person, so resolving anything (even something this obvious) makes me feel like I just invented a warp drive.

As for typing: I love the feel of the keyboard and the snappy, happy precision of the slugs smacking the paper. But the carriage still seems looser and shakier than I'd expect. It's like a rattletrap jalopy.

The carriage still hits some sticking spots when returning. I studied the mechanism very closely when I had the carriage off. It rides on a track with ball bearing guides on either side. Everything that should be there seems to be there, and it all seems to be where it belongs. I just could not see where it was haning up. I'll have another look at it in the next couple days. Fortunately, the carriage is very easy to