Pete E. wrote:

Mike,

You need to lift off the carriage and then the SN is on the right side of the chassis.

Here is one of Uwe's photos off of the TWDB photo galleries.

( I was too lazy to take my machine out and apart...)

p.s.  I opt to remove the plastic paper guides first before lifting off the carriage.  I find that easier and less prone to crack the plastic with the platen.
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Ok thanks, willl research carriage removal.

 

Same number on both carriage and frame.

Pete E. wrote:

Mike,

Good read, below, about matching and non-matching SN's on the SG's :

https://typewriter.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=1808

Interesting. and Uwe's statement: 
" speculate that when the numbers match that you have an original carriage and body combination, and if they don't, that it's a carriage that was part of another machine and someone got them mixed up, as you could understand might happen in a large office using a number of SG1s. "

I had trouble rolling a sheet of paper through it and found that there was an old adhesive label stuck to the chrome tray under the platen, catching the inserted paper's edge. Struggled to figure platen removal so gave up on that and soaked the label with Goo Gone; was then able to dislodge it by pushing card stock paper against it until it came loose. Now to clean up the greasy goo gone.
 

That's a keeper! It's a strange design that mixes odd angles and curves, and yet works. It's a shame that more rebranded models didn't also make changes to the bodywork - but of course that would have probably resulted in a higher price, and/or less profit.

Uwe wrote:

That's a keeper! It's a strange design that mixes odd angles and curves, and yet works. It's a shame that more rebranded models didn't also make changes to the bodywork - but of course that would have probably resulted in a higher price, and/or less profit.

Apart from the shell, looks to be the same machine as the Sears Forecast 12 and the Tower Constellation.  Hoping to locate one of those for some carriage parts.