Cool! I'm curious to see what you think of it, and how it compares with other machines.

The model 32 I just bought sounds more rattly/jangly than my other (all-metal) typewriters. The keys feel a little loose, but have a nice thunk at the bottom of the keystroke (which is why I bought it). Except for very occasionally, it kept up with me typing at full tilt. I am missing the tabulator, though... 

The key levers seen between the keys (as in your pic #2) remind me a lot of the movie Metropolis, and are fun to watch while typing. 

I've not had a chance to clean & adjust it, which may help a bit. If it grows on me enough to invest more time on, I might look at adding some rubber bushings & washers and upgrading the acoustic dampening to quiet it down a bit. 

At lunch, I stepped into a thrift store and bought a Sears Citation for a song (cheap way to try out a series 6). Then, I walked to a consignment store down the street found a sea of 60s and 70s Erikas. (well, ok, seven of them, but that's six more than I've ever seen for sale in one place).

Two of them slipped into my car:



The orange one (which I'm not precisely sure on the modem number; the manual it came with said 110/115) came because it is a bit outlandish, and had an interesting typeface (using the ribbon it came with):

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The grey/blue 32 came along because the action of its keys made me smile. Pleasant and like no other machine I have.
 

Thanks for your help! With these tips, I was able to adjust the typewriter. 

It turns out that much of the variation I was seeing across the segment was due to inconsistencies in where on the typebar I pressed to hold it against the abutment ring. Once I started doing that in the same place on all keys, below the abutment ring, then I got more consistency. Not perfect, but closer: my feeler gauges tell me that the right side of the segment is now positioned at about 0.15mm, and the left at 0.18mm. (I used the range suggested in the SM-3 adjustment service bulletin in the Olympia SM Repair Bible).  

I've got an Olympia Traveller deluxe on which the type bars on the right side of the segment look good, but type bars on the far left side of the segment do not contact the abutment ring when the type slug is in contact with the platen. 

How does one do a ring and cylinder adjustment on this? 

The carriage shift pivot is anchored to the back of the frame, so it doesn't look like it can move forward or back. The segment is screwed to a bracket that is screwed to the bottom of the frame, and neither sets of screws look like they have play for adjustment. Perhaps this model is not adjustable after it left the factory?

I can't find any Traveller / SF manuals; only SM and SG which look quite different. 

Thanks!

Thanks for the photos, measurements, and recommendation! 

I may use a substitute from rubberfeet or the hardware store as a stopgap measure for now, for this and a few more machines with crumbling feet. Your photos will help with designing a replica.