pdxtypewriter and ztyper... great looking machines! I am reminded that when you drive from place to place in a "car" and buy things from "people" you are going to get deals that make anything you might have shipped to you look silly!  Even discounting the shipping cost you would expect to get a lower price because they don't have spend time packing. But I saved on gas.  A thin argument I know, and I don't even bother with the saved time argument because I am sure time spent this way is a pleasure.

Looks like not much changed on the standard Underwood between 1940 and 1954 except (1) grey crinkle versus black crinkle and (2) stopped putting the metal rings on the round plastic keys to reassure customers used to metal rings on the keys, though they no longer had a function. You motivate me to pull mine out for an extended text drive, It makes a loud newsroom like thwacking - not saying that is an advantage, it just does. It would make a good percussion instrument - that sucker could be heard clear to the back of Carnegie Hall!

beak wrote:

Concerning SG paper rests - we make many such things in our film modelling departments on 3D printers.  Should be a breeze once you have the cad file?

Absolutely. I was actually going to go another route and make a mold of one and then start casting copies, but like so many other things I haven't got around to it yet.
 

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The new typewriter at home:



A Torpedo 18!

According to the s/n, this is a 1950 specimen, and I´d say it´s a Dutch made Torpedo because of the return lever. I´m a bit confused about the model as well, because I don´t know the difference between the 18 and the 18a.

The typewriter is in good condition, it only needs a bit of cleaning and a lot of oil because it´s mummified. Apart from that, only good things will come from it

These things aren't typewriters, but Christmas came early for me this year this past week:

So along with the Underwood that I got last Sunday I did get some tools and an IBM Selectric troubleshooting book. Little did I know, how many tools that I actually had until I sorted them!



Look at all of them! No longer will I have to use the wrong wrench or pliers to do the job of four specific tools. But that's not even the best part. The other day, the same seller called me back up and said he found some more books for me and this is what he presented:



A whole home study course on how to repair typewriters! This thing is packed with so much information! 



It's got so many detailed pictures and instructions on Royal, Remington, and Smith-Corona standards. Unfortunately, it lacks Underwood since they were bought by Olivetti in... 1964? Something like that and this was published in I think 1975. Which is unfortunate they didn't include early Underwoods since they have the Royal KMM model in here but whatever.

Here are the other books:




I don't even have the IBM C or D typebar typewriter, but I couldn't resist. Luckily, I have the whole summer to read up on these books since school got let out today. The man I bought these things off from actually was an Olivetti technician and bought the books and tools so that he could repair other typewriters from his house. He would just put a small ad in the paper, and service them from his basement. He seemed to be happy to get rid of all of his things, and especially since they were not going to the trash but to someone who would use them as they were intended. I'm just glad that there's someone else in town that appreciates typewriters in a similar way that I do. And that he sold me all of his cool stuff!