as key master explained in my other thread (http://typewriter.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=2805), the remington reporter was a sort of "spin off" of the post war remington torpedos that are quite well known. in order to renovate my machine i need a ribbon cover and two spool tops. i will also need a new ribbon but i feel as though that may be relatively easy to obtain for cheap. 

the spool tops i suspect of being able to be from any similar model and still fit, as i have seen a few more common models on the internet which seem to have the same parts. everything else on the machine works as intended. i am enclosing two images below, for convenience:


 
this is what the intact model looks like:



i am unsure of what the process behind this is, so please be patient with me.