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This isn't really a repair issue. It's just an embarrassing display of my mechanical incompetence.
I can't, for the life of me, change the ribbon on the Wanderer Klein-Continental.
I don't have any problem changing the ribbon on my other machine, a Groma Model T, but the Continental just mystifies me. It's embarrassing, but I'm desperate.
Somebody please help.
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From what I see on the computer when I entered that name in and pulled up several images, this typewriter to me looks like it loads up ribbon like the majority of most portable typewriters: with the left spool at takeup mode rotating counterclockwise and the right spool at takeup rotating clockwise. There are trip arms inboard of both spools where the ribbon goes through. This looks like its reverse mechanism. Usually, a ribbon would come with a brad almost at the end, but if you're having to wind your own (pay attention to the above directions), you'll have to tie a knot about four inches from each end where you attach it at the spools so it will trip those arms to reverse the takeup. Where the ribbon goes into the vibrator, or ribbon carrier, it goes in front of the outer part of the carrier slot, back behind, and then back out to in front of the outer part of the carrier slot on the other side. Look up the name on Google, then click "Images," and you'll have a pictorial guide as to how to load one of these typewriters. Good luck.