So you have a 1957 FP with elite type. I think this was the first production year for the FP, and it's the only one that has a lever for a colour selector instead of a plastic wheel. The FP is a great typewriter. What colour is yours? There were size colour options, but the vast majority of them that I've seen are a two-tone grey.

Your ribbon colour selector should look like this:


And not like this (post '57):

Exclamations are usually created by typing a period (.),pressing the backspace, and then typing an apostrophe over it ('). For typewriters that have a key with two periods on it (one lowercase, one uppercase), I've found that the uppercase period looks better with the apostrophe to create an exclamation because it's slightly offset.

Uwe, how does the Magic Margin work? I thought Ihad it working, but thought I'd ask.  I mean setting it and clearing it.

Last edited by colrehogan (10-2-2015 17:57:29)

colrehogan wrote:

Uwe, how does the Magic Margin work? I thought Ihad it working, but thought I'd ask. I mean setting it and clearing it.

First, make sure you move the carriage to the left side of the right margin (or right side of the left margin depending on which one you want to set). Press and hold the Magic Margin lever for the margin you want to set (right side lever for the right margin). Move the carriage to where you want the margin stop, then release the Magic Margin lever. You can also just move the carriage to where you want the margin and press and release the Magic Margin lever, but ONLY if the margin is already set further to the right of the new position (for the right margin).