Hello Uwe !
Nasty?  I gladly accept your evaluation as you know more about typewriters than I do.  As I recall, the Smith Corona Corsair was about the least expensive typewriter at the time; in my case, I'll guess 1966?
It got me through school and university and I guess I'd like to repair this one (it's not my original unit) as I doubt there is much wrong with it.  (That's how some of my biggest adventures have started! )
What we used in school was all together different.  I mostly recall Royal machines, though there were others.  They all were the smoothest, clockwork machines in operation and their construction seemed bullet-proof.  I'm intrigued with the possibility of picking up any one of those machines that in those days was out of my league.
Best Regards.
Jim
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Hello, all!

My name is Miguel, and I'm the author of a blog called Modernidad y Obsolescencia. I found this forum checking the stats the other day, and thought I'd join it.

A bit of a bio of yours truly would be like this: I'm a technologist by trade, translator and writer by chance, and a technological Luddite by choice. I was born in 1972 in Mexico City, and was the first in my class to use a personal computer. Today, I'm the last known typewriter user in my community. I'm convinced that using and enjoying the technologies from the past is a way to keep my mental health, taken to the limits by the unending change and updating demanded by the technological revolution we're living in. I consider myself a prolific typist, a voracious reader and a writer wannabe. I wrote a book on e-commerce, have a couple of unpublished novels under my sleeve (which I haven't finished typing yet... on a manual typewriter, no less!), and I like to spend my spare time expanding a huge list of things I wants to write about.

Like I said, I'm the author of the blog Modernidad y Obsolescencia, which is, as far as I know, the only blog in Spanish devoted (more or less exclusively) to typewriters.

 

beak wrote:

Hello and welcome!
I have a couple of pen-pals in Mexico, and they tell me that many TWs can be found there for good prices, and I believe that a version of the Olympia SG was even made there.  My Spanish is not very good - well, it's terrible - but I'll have a look at your blog all the same.
See you around here again!

Thank you, Beak!

Yeah, Olympia built the SG-3 model in Mexico for years. I have one of those giants in my collection - it was a NOS machine that still was packed in its original cartons (one for the chassis, and another one for the 22" wide carriage!) It works very nicely and I intend to keep it.

Most of my blog entries from 2012 are (were) bilingual (Spanish / English). Alas, I had a catastrophical loss of images some time ago and I haven't got around restoring the whole entries yet... but I added the Google translate button somewhere. Not ideal, but at least should give you an idea of what the entries are about.
 

Hello, i'm Luc, 22, from brittany in France I've always been interested in typewriters but never have the opportunity to have one.
I really love the historic dimension of typewriter and other object artistic or not that's why i will join a art restoration class in Paris.
Last week a friend gave me an old and bad condition Underwood N°5. 
I've started to restor it but i have some problem on the disassembling and for dating the year of the model, i hope you may help me in this work !

Hello everyone,
I am new to typewriters, but I am a collector of fountain pens and I love stationery.
My wife recently showed me what she thought was an old piece of junk that she had first learned to type on, a Brother Deluxe 750tr. I had been secretly thinking about buying an old typewriter from eBay, but I got this Brother for free.
All it needed to get it working was a new ribbon and some dusting. I went to the local stationery store and when I asked for a typewriter ribbon it was.like something that they would sell every day.
Anyway, last night I sat down and typed my first ever letter. It is strange that I enjoy using this typewriter because my mother tried to teach me to type on a similar typewriter when I was a teenager.