Hello, everyone.

I've recently bought a Smith-Corona Silent, the 50's model, and it has some problems on its carriage return/escapement mechanism.

First, the carriage return is really loud. It makes a loud clicking sound if I push it to the right. Although it runs normal and silently if I press the carriage release lever.

Sometimes, the carriage gets stuck. Then I can't move it at all using the return lever. I must then press the release lever to move the carriage. If I try using the keys or the spacebar to move the carriage when it gets stuck, it doesn't work either.

I realized that, sometimes, the shift key is making the carriage advance a little, which is odd.

Finnaly, the left side of the rear enclosure of the machine (the one that you must push back to get access to the tabulators) is loose. I tried to see if there's a screw missing, but it doesn't seem so. Maybe it should just be manually reattached to its place, but I don't know how.

Can someone help me?

I appreciate!