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IBM Model D conundrum..
As I readied letting go of the IBM Model D this weekend, the drive belt raced ahead and snapped.
It typed, but for a few sluggish characters which almost, yet only struck the paper (- , ; some vowels) when the heaviest personal touch was set (inside the case). The typeface is Artisan 12 pitch and it uses a carbon ribbon.
I wish a warm home for the machine, but afraid no one locally will accept this inoperable, leaden typewriter. Shall I place extra effort because of its typeface or is that element insignificant? Fretting it's potential trash and can't face this, yet I need use of its immense, standard space. Suggestions are welcome, your opinions please?
It's tough saying goodbye.
p.s. Unwilling to make another space for a parts donor machine.
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Re: IBM Model D conundrum..
Anybody know the belt designation? Looked at available standard synchronous timing belts and didn't find the needed pitch, imperial or metric. Thanks!
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Re: IBM Model D conundrum..
I just picked up an Executive Model D yesterday but haven't yet pulled it out of the car as I have to clear a space for it first, so I appreciate your woes. I'm moving in the opposite direction to you which is to complete a collection of the IBM models from the Electromatic to the Selectric III. They're all wonderful machines, but they take up a lot of real estate.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Re: IBM Model D conundrum..
Uwe wrote:
I just picked up an Executive Model D yesterday but haven't yet pulled it out of the car as I have to clear a space for it first, so I appreciate your woes. I'm moving in the opposite direction to you which is to complete a collection of the IBM models from the Electromatic to the Selectric III. They're all wonderful machines, but they take up a lot of real estate.
Is it 32 or 36-pitch? What type face does it have on it? I know these are proportional spacing machines, and almost certainly yours would be a carbon ribbon only typewriter. I've got a 1962 IBM Executive model C as a project machine (if only I could get around to it). It has a 36-pitch double-case Copperplate Gothic type style (Trust me, you'd hate it). It also has two detachable type bars, and it is a model 41 instead of a 41C, which makes it a custom typewriter. I read the carbon ribbon on it, and the last owner was a preacher (whom I found out later was deceased, so I couldn't ask him any questions about it). But I wonder just what use would a person have for a dual-case gothic typewriter with s 20" carriage, and detachable typebars? Good luck on your typewriter. You're going to have lots of fun with it!!
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