Keychoppers!!  Dadburn blankety-blank keychoppers!!!  Well, folks, here is a thought:  When you see or hear of someone chopping keys off of what seems like a decent, repairable machine, offer to buy it or take it off their hands, take it home, and put OTHER keys ON it.  As I have said before, typewriter repairmen have salvaged keys off of old, beyond-repair carcasses, as have I, since time immemorial.  But here's the difference:  The keys GO BACK ON OTHER TYPEWRITERS!!!! If you hear of or see a typewriter that's had its keys removed.  Get it, take it home, and give the critter some new teeth!!!

Yes, I recently saw that--after my last post here.  They really foul 'em up but good.  I apologize for a past ignorance that has since been rectified.  I've seen pictures of the wreckage ol' snips leaves behind.  I've mentioned in another thread about what I would do if I saw one of these machines:  First, I would take it home.  If the machine is otherwise repairable, I would remove the key levers themselves.  I would need to find either a newer machine whose levers would fit, or an identical older one that still has keys ol' snips doesn't know about.  And I would change them out to the machine that is the most repairable--possibly the chopped one.  It's a complicated operation.  I have transferred key levers before.  It takes awhile, but repairing typewriters is half the fun.  And the pride I would feel whenever I could say that I saved a keychopped machine by putting in new (to the typewriter) keys and new levers.