- Platenboy
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Re: Show Us Your Restoration Before & After Photos
That is some serious dedication. I just couldn't start with something that bad, I'd have to try and find something much less rusty but poor condition still.
You obviously really like a challenge.
Amazing job
- Uwe
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Re: Show Us Your Restoration Before & After Photos
It's more than just the work; in most cases a proper restoration of a common model doesn't make financial sense because it represents a significant outlay of cash, especially when you have metal parts replated and rubber replaced. And it's certainly far more difficult to find a buyer for such a machine, one who understands what a restoration entails and is willing to pay for the costs associated with it.
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- TypewriterKing
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In the 35 years I've been in typewriter repair, I had thought I'd found the machines that would classify as "rare" or "collector," only to have these defined as lesser machines. And, as was said, to "properly" restore a typewriter--to re-rubber, dismantle, re-assemble, re-chrome, repaint, re-decal--everything to make that machine look as though it had NEVER been touched by human hands in its whole 100+-year-old life--would take a wad of cash so big it could wipe out the National Debt. Now, I ask, what typewriter out there--made by humanity, has achieved the record of being the MOST expensive, rarest, most highly sought-after, Tom-Hanks-couldn't-even-afford-it title? What machine out there extant today would, if you took one to the Antiques Road Show, would make the emcee go "WOW!!! Have fun in Cancun!!"
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- mre12ax7
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Hansen Writing Ball.
Last one sold for over $130K!
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- TypewriterKing
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I wonder if Tom Hanks bought that one.
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- TypewriterKing
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I don't know why, but that thing always looked to me like some hors d' oeuvre--or a fondue set.
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- SquireDante
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- SquireDante
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- SquireDante
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