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Royal HH Tab key sets off ribbon advance
I was trying to clean up a Royal HH today and managed to get a few things sorted out and now have a problem which involves the tab key advancing the ribbon at the same time as the carriage advances to the next tab stop. Has anyone come across this before?
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Re: Royal HH Tab key sets off ribbon advance
Should be perfectly normal as far as I know. Just moving the carriage, even when using the carriage release, should advance the ribbon.
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Re: Royal HH Tab key sets off ribbon advance
This is what Royals do--from the "flatcar" designs of the early 1900s, to the Litton Royals of the 1970s. The advance is taken off of the spring drum via a small driveshaft to the front where the ribbon spools are. Unlike Remington and L. C. Smith (and later Smith-Corona), there isn't a mechanism that unmeshes the shaft gear from the spring drum, so in a Royal, they stay in constant mesh. Nothing gets hurt, and the ribbon wears pretty much the same as in other typewriters.
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Re: Royal HH Tab key sets off ribbon advance
Oh. Ok. Thanks! I was worried when I saw it advancing so much.
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