Hi John, that's a gorgeous SM3 you have there. Amazing-looking considering the original state you got it in, soo pretty. Well done! I'm jealous.

Markmotown- I have an Oliver 3 parts machine. Let me know if you need anything from it.  My parents got it for me as a Christmas gift, but it has 3 teeth missing from an essential gear.

My first purchased (collected) typewriter. I'm recently hooked. Royal Quiet in blue. No bargain since I bought it refurbished with new rubber, etc. But I love it. I bought two others that I'll also share, and I'm having an Olympia SM7 (c. 1963) Cursive refurbished, which I'm excited about since I've wanted a really nice cursive machine.

colrehogan wrote:

Your typewriter's name is Robert! 

Robert seems to have had some alignment problems before he became a doorstop. I hope Markmotown can help get Robert back on his feet. 

Interesting how long the "All good men..." sentence has been around. One of the exercise sentences in a popular typing book?

Uwe wrote:

Looks like the type guide and alignment scale used on a SG1.

Correct. For you, it is no challenge to guess this.

I have a Smith-Corona with that typeface and just hate it. It might be nice to use to fill out forms (possibly the machines original use), or in very small amounts, but I find a full page of that stuff to be vulgar.

I do not know that I would go so far as "vulgar", but I admit the novelty seems likely to wear thin. It later occurred to me this may be the famous "radio mill" font which I never wanted an example of! I had not realized this was the same font now described as "small caps". But look on the bright side: the segment is still so gummed up that half the keys fall back in slow motion and I have not been able to free them. So maybe it's mechanically unusable.