Stick with it, David! You're definitely welcome here. 

I've had an uncharacteristically electric week. I normally shy from typewriters that need to be tethered to a wall receptacle, but in the past three days I exclusively used four of them, a Lettera 36, an Olympia Report Electronic, a Sears 'The Corrector', and just now I was typing a letter to a friend using an IBM Selectric III (and making use of different typefaces). It's enough for now, so I'm going to push them all aside and switch back to something mechanical.

I just finished typing a few pages on a recently purchased 1980s Typewriters Works Maritsa 12 that is a companion model to the Maritsa 22 that I already owned. It types rather well given it's essentially a Keller & Knappich Princess 100, but the escapement still needs a little fine tuning, so I just swapped over to a 1949 Smith-Corona Clipper that is in a whole different league in terms of type feel.


 

1922 Remington 10. 
For whatever reason, I can't get the paper to feed in the right way, so I have to feed it in reverse, but it is totally worth it. I love the action and the font. 

Yes, I'm sure that's the problem--and my rather superficial investigation didn't immediately see anything wrong with the rollers, which are intact and not flat, but still not gripping as they should. At this point it is just my own laziness as to not wanting to get in there and start tearing apart the machine to fix it. Perhaps someday when things calm down a bit in this hectic life....

I've been sticking to standards of late, and today I'm using a '65 Royal Empress, which is an appropriate name for this particular model.