Currently I'm working on a Lettera 22, 1955 beige color. Types fine after a little cleaning, and I've adjusted the alignment of the capital letters (unusual adjustment, with two eccentric nuts under the ribbon cover -- fiddly). Now I'm pondering what to do to replace the infamous grommets that keep the cover from rattling on the frame, which are basically gone -- seems like the grommet size is something not readily available at hardware stores. Maybe rubber washers/spacers might work better.

A few other issues I need to address, but as it is it types very nicely -- much better feel than the Studio 44 I have. I can see why these are highly regarded!

My 1940 Underwood Noiseless standard is on my desk right now. I keep coming back to it even though the keyboard feel isn't the best, and the printing is still a bit weak, and the visibility of the typed text is atrocious. But I brought it back from the rusty grave about a year ago and it has been developing a lighter touch and better printing ever since so I guess I'm hooked on it. (But I'm rotating it out with the Underwood Touchmaster Five, and the Royal KMM, and even the R.C. Allen Visomatic, which needs a platen recovering badly)

I have been lazy and using my Royal KMM for most of my typing, not counting testing and playing around. I have a recently acquired Royal KHM on my work bench, mid-cleaning.

Uwe wrote:

"Stand up typing"? Is that anything like stand up comedy? 

I have three machines on my desk today. An Olympia SG1 that is pretty much a permanent fixture, and two machines that I'm tinkering with, an Olivetti Lettera 36 (electro-mechanical) that was seized up but is running now, and a Royal Model P that I bought from a fellow local collector on Sunday. The Royal is missing a couple of springs and needs a new drawband, and cosmetically a lot of TLC, but it's all coming along nicely. 

 
Actually, no. I mean it quite literally.   The HH is on the peninsula of my cabinets.  I don't have a barstool to sit on, so unless I do some typewriter shifting with the three standards on the kitchen table, I will stand at the counter to use that one.