TypewriterGuy wrote:

So wait, when the typebasket is down, it does not type? That is normal then, its not supposed too. When you raise them, then it is supposed to..

Sorry - guess I was unclear. I lowered the typebasket when I put it aside and the following day when I raised the typebasket it had developed this issue. I repeated lowering and raising several times, and made sure the control was fully in the raised position.

TypewriterGuy wrote:

If this is not the poblem, I would reccomend taking off all the panels and see whats going on. Those early remingtons are very easy to take apart.

I did spend some time trying to figure out what was going on from the bottom - hampered by the awkwardness of holding the machine over my head to see the bad horizontal position (at least it's a portable). Being late and besotted with beer I quickly took the lazy way of hoping somebody else had seen this issue, but I shall try again under the beneficent influence of coffee and daylight.
 

Ok to take off the top panel take a look at the sides (This is for model 1s, but the 2 cant be too different)

You will see two screws at the very top of each side panel, unscrew them.

Lift up the top.

The part that raises the typebars commonly (on mine) comes out of the braackets that guide it up. That may be your problem.

I did find one typewriter repair place in Brooklyn - taking a virtual look at the supposed address on Google Streets I walked all the way to the end of a gritty dead end street in an industrial area of Greenpoint Brooklyn, and found myself looking at a chain link fence and a tank farm on the waterfront. If this were a game, the next sound effect would be a car crunching the gravel behind you, so you would turn around and see two guys named Tony and Vito getting out, who were not smiling.

On the end of North 12th Street, nobody can hear you scream.

Obviously I cannot see your machine, but it sounds as if there is a problem with the line-lock mechanism, possibly a return spring missing or detached.  When the machine is in the normal position, it 'thinks' that it has reached the right margin, and locks the keyboard.  With the machine tilted back, gravity takes the place of the spring and the keyboard releases, albeit temporarily.  You might be able to test this theory by trying the margin release button to see if it has any effect.  If you put your fingers under the machine, you might well have knocked a spring off without realising it.