Almost all the mechanicals are good and the rubber all bad! The only significant obstacle to putting this machine to daily use for now though is the feed rollers: the smaller front ones all have large flat spots - maybe more than one flat spot - and show signs of recently having been freed from adhesion to the platen. I guess nobody remembered to rotate the platen every day during a forty year storage? You can type for maybe 10 lines before the rollers line up like lemons on a slot machine and the lines begin to bunch up.

The four front rollers ride on a shaft attached to spring loaded arms attached to brackets attached to the main frame members of the carriage, apparently with rivets. The platen is user changeable but the catch tray underneath the platen is attached to this front shaft by two flanges so it is captivated. The roller shaft is attached to the arms with in-line screws but since you can't get the catch tray off you could not get an ordinary screwdriver in to remove them, and even if I could I am afraid I would not be able to reassemble it and will not try. So I am thinking of fixing the rollers in situ, either by softening them with heat or chemicals and encouraging them to harden again more nearly round, or by sanding down the ridges on the sides of the flats and possibly building up the center of the flats if the paper still does not feed properly.

I can't see any other option so I will probably try this in the order heat/chemicals/sanding. I already got the platen into a usable state by filling and sanding a spall so I am not giving up yet! If you would like to see a photo of anything let me know.