1 - colrehogan
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Typing with your portable
When you type with your portable typewriter, do you leave it in the case (if you have a case)?
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- ztyper
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Re: Typing with your portable
It all depends on the case itself, and where I am. If the case top comes off easily, then I'll leave the typewriter on the bottom if I'm going to be typing on my lap. Or if I'm in a place where there's not much space, or it's just for a little bit, then I'll leave the case on. If I'm at home, or there's a desk, I'll take the typewriter out of the case.
A high schooler with a lot of typewriters. That's pretty much about it.
- hamidlmt
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I always take them out of the case.
- KatLondon
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If I was out and using a typewriter it would be one of the small ones anyway - Baby or Skyriter or Tippa - so it would just be a lid... At home, I never leave anything in its case or on its base, if I'm using it.
When I got my Remington Envoy it was filthy inside - it had clearly never been taken off its base. The young couple I got it from had loved it, but it had clearly never even occurred to them to undo the screws and clean it underneath. As per your other thread, I think they hadn't been reading the typosphere!
- Uwe
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Never. There are some travel cases that wouldn't allow you to use the machine without removing it anyway, and others that hold a stench even better than the machine it's protecting. Even when travelling I don't use the original travel case. I've found modern equipment bags are not only lighter, but offer far better protection.
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- colrehogan
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What equipment bags?
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Re: Typing with your portable
I use a Gator Case. It's thickly padded and and is a perfect fit for many of my ultra-portables. As a bonus it has a shoulder strap so you can carry the typewriter hands free, and it also has an large outside pocket to carry a notebook, pens, or whatever else you want to keep with the typewriter. I've used the bag for several trips and it's great for use as carry-on luggage when flying.
Used with my 1959 Royal Royalite:
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- SpokaneNostalgia
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I always remove mine from the case when typing. The darn cases tend to get in my way.
Edit for grammar.
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- James Henry
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Hey Uwe,
Which model gator case is that? That looks like a perfect fit for my Lettera 32. I need something as the original case is broke (as most of them fell apart after a few years) and I am looking for a good replacement. Also, my father had that same Royalite. I think he ended up throwing it away when he moved...
Wish I still had it now.
- James Henry
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Hey Uwe,
I have narrowed that bag down to a gator G mix B 1212 bag. It's inside dimensions are listed as 12 x12 by 5 or 5.5 inches. My Lettera 32 measures 12.5 by 12.75 (or really 13 wide looking at the carriage) by 3. I am wondering if your Royalite dimensions are similar. I just want to make sure the lettera fits before I purchase. I am thinking the soft padded bag allows for a little bit more play in the walls so that it would fit.
J.
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