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You are quite right about the thick tension wheel on my Royal. It is thicker than any of my other typewriters. I'll look into finding a Royal manual, thanks for the suggestion.
And, my Remington 30 is actually a 30-30, also. I thought they did that double-30 business for the fun of it. Haha. I simply call it a 30 and be done with it. I do have an antique print ad from "The Literary Digest, Sept. 19, 1925" advertising a nearly identical looking as my Remington 30-30 except the ad image has a standard size carriage, otherwise it seems to have all the same keys as well as a 10-key decimal system. On the bottom of the ad it says "Remington Model 30." They did not duplicate the 30 at least on the print ad I have, only the typewriter image has 30 30 (as does mine).
Thanks, too, for the suggestion to keep the typewriter since I have often thought about getting rid of it (I have never worked on it to try to get it working again; it's the only typewriter I have that I've pretty much neglected to bring back to working life). I've had my Rem 30 for decades, I don't even know where I got it from but I was a teenager when I did get it, and probably for very little money since I had none at the time. I'm retired now. It's rather surprising that it's still with me after all these years.
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TheMachineAge wrote:
Thank you TypewriterKing and M.Hohne for your thorough input on this typewriter. ......
... Obviously different mfgrs do different things.)
... Other than quite dirty, the tension band itself is in great shape.
:.... Obviously different mfgrs do different things.)
Uh-huh. Lesson learned, eh?
".... Other than quite dirty, the tension band itself is in great shape."
This is strong confirmation that your carriage sluggishness is due to dirt. I'm sure you'll let us know how well it works after everything is cleaned.