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FACIT TP1 owners, I need your help!
Hi,
It looks like my Facit TP1 had some issues with its carriage return lever. From the pics you can see it was repaired with some wire.
Can someone help me out by posting a picture of their Facit TP1 so I can see what that assembly should look like. Please get in there as best you can, a clear image would help me out greatly.
I've also included a pic of the carriage return lever base, you can see it's been modified too.
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1954 ROYAL Quiet De Luxe, 1949 Smith Corona Silent, 1957 ROYAL Quiet De Luxe, 1967 FACIT TP1, 1969 Olivetti Ventura
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Re: FACIT TP1 owners, I need your help!
Sorry about the weird URL at the top of the post, the image feature does not work well for some reason.
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1954 ROYAL Quiet De Luxe, 1949 Smith Corona Silent, 1957 ROYAL Quiet De Luxe, 1967 FACIT TP1, 1969 Olivetti Ventura
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Re: FACIT TP1 owners, I need your help!
Here you go:
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Re: FACIT TP1 owners, I need your help!
Hot dang, that's exactly what I needed!
Thank you so much SoucekFan, that helps tremendously!
Thank you thank you thank you.
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1954 ROYAL Quiet De Luxe, 1949 Smith Corona Silent, 1957 ROYAL Quiet De Luxe, 1967 FACIT TP1, 1969 Olivetti Ventura
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Thread Starter- scottw
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Re: FACIT TP1 owners, I need your help!
By the way, if anyone has an extra one of those screws that attach to the carriage return lever I'll happily buy it off of you.
Here's an image, what I need is circled:
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1954 ROYAL Quiet De Luxe, 1949 Smith Corona Silent, 1957 ROYAL Quiet De Luxe, 1967 FACIT TP1, 1969 Olivetti Ventura
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Re: FACIT TP1 owners, I need your help!
Quick question for you SoucekFan.
Do you see anything on the top of that little piece? Like a Philips head socket or Allen key socket?
I'm wondering if that little thing is screwed into the carriage return lever or is it attached some other way.
Thanks for your help!
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1954 ROYAL Quiet De Luxe, 1949 Smith Corona Silent, 1957 ROYAL Quiet De Luxe, 1967 FACIT TP1, 1969 Olivetti Ventura
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Re: FACIT TP1 owners, I need your help!
scottw wrote:
Quick question for you SoucekFan.
Do you see anything on the top of that little piece? Like a Philips head socket or Allen key socket?
I'm wondering if that little thing is screwed into the carriage return lever or is it attached some other way.
Thanks for your help!
I just tried to look, just now, but there is no way for me to see the top or bottom of that part without disassembly, as it is obscured at every possible angle. I tried with my phone, magnifying glass, but no luck. If you have yours apart, I would check the hole where it attaches on the return arm and see if you can see threading.
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Thanks for trying. I looked and there's no threading. Hmm, makes me wonder how this thing was attached.
Thanks again!
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1954 ROYAL Quiet De Luxe, 1949 Smith Corona Silent, 1957 ROYAL Quiet De Luxe, 1967 FACIT TP1, 1969 Olivetti Ventura
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