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01-4-2018 18:49:02  #711


Re: New Member Thread

beak wrote:

Hello and welcome Sam.
'Just looking for a couple...'
Yup - that's how it starts.

 
I am trying to get either a Skyriter or this Gossen Tippa I'm bidding on currently to have a compact portable.

I had a question and wasn't sure where to post it, whenever I type a page on my Galaxie XII the text looks slightly crooked on the page. Is this operator error (which I assume it is) or is it something on the machine?

 

02-4-2018 00:07:29  #712


Re: New Member Thread

First thing is, are you putting the paper in straight?
  As you roll the paper into the machine, make sure you roll it through far enough so that you can align the top corners to the bottom corners.  You keep the paper bale lock off to do this, and put the lock back on when it's right.  That way the paper will be straight in the machine and stay that way.  Let us know. 


Sincerely,
beak.
 
 

02-4-2018 15:03:17  #713


Re: New Member Thread

SamTheWriter83 wrote:

I had a question and wasn't sure where to post it, ...

​This thread is specifically for new member introductions, so please post questions concerning repairs, use, and maintenance in the Maintenance & Repairs sub-forum.

​For other questions regarding a specific model, please use either the 
Portable Typewriters or Standard Typewriters sub-forum depending on the type of machine you're asking about.  ​


The pronoun has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
     Thread Starter
 

06-5-2018 02:43:51  #714


Re: New Member Thread

Hello!
I am Sergiu and I love typewriting. I am so glad I have been accepted as a member. Thank you for approving my registration. I live in Romania (near Black Sea) and I am also a primary school teacher. 
If I may, I will tell you 2 stories regarding typewriters:
1. When I was in 5th grade (gymnasium), I saw in the library a desk typewriter. I asked about that and the lady told me what is used for. I was also her favorite reader. So I came every day to the library and asked her to let me use it. I even started to make my class magazine, helped by her and another school mates. She also had a suitcase typewriter, a white suitcase but a very small one. I remember spotting the difference between the ribbons. The one from the suitcase had a red portion. Wow, that was amazing! But the suitcase typewriter had also a problem: when writing in CAPS, the letters were too high from the rest of the row. I never write anything at that typewriter. Instead I used the desk one. But my happy days lasted a few cause she left and the library was closed and I do not know what happened with all those books. My parents could not afford a typewriter and I was dreaming almost everyday that I will receive a typewriter. Sometimes I dremt that it was raining with typewriters and I catch them all. School was very soliciting so I kinda pushed the typewriting dream away, until high school when one of my aunts invited me to her office to use their typewriter. But it was so disappointing: the ribbon was very very used and she was always chatty. So I gave up. In the same time (1999) computers started to captivate me, but only because they had a keyboard. I did not have a computer and at school I was always typing on the 486 and 386 computers but I never found my files. One day I draw the keyboard on a piece of paper and after doing my homework, I was typing on that piece of paper for hours. Every single day... I was writing everything that popped in my head. Sometimes I even cried for not having a real typewriter. I asked a friend for a computer keyboard. He had a broken one. Even if the keys were real, it just was not what I wanted. I wanted a typewriter, so I returned it. I think soon after that I asked my principal to lend me a typewriter I saw resting for weeks. Now this part is kinda blurry but what is very clear is that I was writing at home on a typewriter! Finally! I was writing all of the things I had to learn at school. It is true, one day my parents gave me a used red typewriter but it was small and the keys were sticky and I did not used it because it annoyed me. I had to return the school typewriter at some point put can you believe that the principal and the secretary were using me (seldom) to type things at their typewriter because I was typing faster than them? In 3 years I was the posesor of a computer and even if I received soon after not one but two typewriters, I was not curious about them for almost 15 years.

2. These past weeks, I can not remember what triggered it, I remember that I have two typewriters. I forgot I sold one of them few years ago and when I remembered I was really sad. It was an Adler Junior, a green one and I remember that she was stupendous in typing. But I still had the Naumann Erika from 1936! Fully functional and with my mother language diacritics! I took the typewriter at school to show my pupils. They were fascinated! For few days, every break was full of typing. None of them wanted to go outside and play. Luckily I had two (in the meantime I bought a cursive-font one) so there was no fight. One boy and two girls told their parents they want one too and their parents called me and asked me to help them buy one for the kids. Those kids write poetry and short stories and I was so glad they will gonna type! So I helped one of them and the other two are still waiting for their typewriters to arrive by mail.
In short lines, this is my story.
Did I mention I start to hate the computer and I returned to my first love, the typewriter? Well, I did.
- - Sergiu.

 

09-5-2018 13:52:15  #715


Re: New Member Thread

Hi everyone!

I am Trevor from South Africa.

My facination with old typewriters prompted me to make my first purchase! I picked up a Remington 17, very clean and in working order. I believe it is from the early forties. Is  this machine any good?

Regards

 

09-5-2018 14:21:49  #716


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Welcome to the forum Trevor !  I am sure that others will comment, but just to say that yes the Remington 17 should be a good machine.  It is the first of the 'modern' Remington office manuals, introduced in 1939 to replace the hopelessly outdated Remington 16.  All subsequent models right up to the end of production in the late 1970's were based on the mechanics of the 17.  To survive in production that long, they must have got something right !

 

11-5-2018 16:46:10  #717


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Thanks for your input! I find it rather attractive! I'm still trying to use it effectively, it was quite an art back in the day! It was a little sticky at first, but loosening up nicely now. The mechanical workings are very interesting, just flip a switch when you get to the end of the ribbon and it reverses the action, quite ingenious really!  Regards

 

11-5-2018 16:51:08  #718


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Apparently the Remington 17 was the most used typewriter by the allied governments during the second world war. This adds to it's appeal for me!

 

11-5-2018 21:22:08  #719


Re: New Member Thread

TrevorR wrote:

Thanks for your input! I find it rather attractive! I'm still trying to use it effectively, it was quite an art back in the day! It was a little sticky at first, but loosening up nicely now. The mechanical workings are very interesting, just flip a switch when you get to the end of the ribbon and it reverses the action, quite ingenious really! Regards

Actually, if you've loaded the ribbon correctly, it will reverse automatically (if you have the correct ribbon spool installed). These are very nice machines, very solid and reliable.

 

12-5-2018 01:45:45  #720


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Ok, interesting! Are spares available for it and what might it be worth?

 

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