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My faithful Olivetti developed a problem with the number three. I would not come up when I struck the key. The bar seemed to have slid slightly over and was laying against the one next to it. I c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y pulled the bar away and noticed it had become slightly bent. Seems to work fine when I straightened the bend out and hope it is a good repair. I do wonder how it could have happened as I am a careful typist?
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The usual cause for this is two or more typebars getting locked together after clashing the keys hard. Since you are a careful typist, is there any possibility that someone else has been trying out your machine without telling you ?
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As connoiseurs and officionados of a very revered and precisely designed wonder of the world, we just H-A-A-A-Y-Y-T-E when some all-thumbs nurk comes along and just pounds a whole wad of keys into oblivion all at once on our prized machines. Many times we work diligently (sometimes for hours) to get everything balanced and working like, well, a well-balanced machine. It's worse than nails on the chalkboard when I see someone who hasn't the slightest interest in, nor knowledge of, a typewriter--thinking of it as some curiosity with a whole bunch of buttons on the front of it. They'll go merrily whomping on a poor hapless typewriter like it was a miniature game of Whack-A-Mole, never minding the history they're helping to destroy. And then you have the even lower keychoppers. Let's not forget those guys.
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I gently separated the bar and it seems to work fine. Thanks.