Mike,

I also had to play around with the "resting" position of my bell hammer.

Here is a top view and side view that yielded a nice "ding" sound with some sustain on my Aztec 600.  Both photos taken with the hammer at "rest".
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Pete E. wrote:

Mike,

I also had to play around with the "resting" position of my bell hammer.

Here is a top view and side view that yielded a nice "ding" sound with some sustain on my Aztec 600.  Both photos taken with the hammer at "rest".
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Pete,
Thanks for that bell picture. I see my hammer is much closer to the bell at rest and was wondering which way to form it. 

And the color switch position comments make sense.  I may just install an all black ribbon.




 

thetypewriterman wrote:

Ribbon Position Indicator on Aztec and others :  Blue = Black, Red = Red, White = Stencil i.e. ribbon is disabled to allow the cutting of duplicator (mimeograph) stencils.  The intermediate position, on some makes yellow, is the mid-ribbon setting.  What is mid-ribbon for ?  Well, if you have a single colour ribbon installed, for instance All-Black, you can use the black setting until the ink gets pale, then switch to the red setting to use another band of ink on the bottom of the ribbon, then the mid-ribbon setting to use a third band of fresh ink from the centre of the ribbon.  Very economical !

Makes sense typewriterman. An extra position to make use of more ribbon, and to correct for ribbon variations as Pete said. I think I"ll only buy black ribbons in the future. I suppose red was useful for accounting entries back in the old days. 
 

thetypewriterman wrote:

You have got an excellent machine there !  That is an Olympia SG3L - the 'L' stands for 'Luxe' and means that it has a paper injector and double space function.  It is also an earlier model (1960's) so the fit and finish would be better than the later ones.  You will love using it.  It is only slightly inferior to the holy grail SG1 (just put that last bit in to make Uwe smile) 

Finally picked up this machine. Very dirty but it's all there except for the clear plastic page support. It's been sitting unused for so long that many of the key hammer/slugs were stuck to the rubber resting tube. Should be easy to replace with some like-sized piping or insulated wire. For dating purposes, I see a number on the carriage but can't find a chassis number. Looking at SG3s on the database It looks like numbers appear somewhere on the red painted chassis parts. I don't see anything called SG3-L on the database so maybe it is somewhere different than on a standard SG3?


 

BTW...you might try some solvent on the rubber type-slug rest.  Mine was gummy and cruddy up and denatured alcohol made it look like new.
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