- Pete E.
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Here is a Before and After photo of a machine that surfaced in Texas and went to Colorado for a refurbishment. And back to its home in Texas.
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I wonder if the instructions for the carbon ribbon kit specified a side that it should be mounted on. It appears that either side works.
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It does seem like the feed ramp/track for the carbon ribbon may have had a right-hand or a left-hand orientation. So maybe 2 versions of the kit were available...???
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Close up view...
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I'm not sure what to say to this other than, wow. Interesting discoveries.
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Pete E. wrote:
Here is a Before and After photo of a machine that surfaced in Texas and went to Colorado for a refurbishment. And back to its home in Texas.
Pete, that SG1 looks absolutely gorgeous. Without crinkle paint the machine looks much more elegant. Is the gray paint the original color?
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Hi Lau,
This color-scheme appears to show up in 1963. There are several on the TWDB. Link below is for one, which appears to be original finish.
Original paint finish does not appear to be the older wrinkle-paint but more of an "egg shell" texture. Not quite 100% "smooth".
When I saw the photos of the Texas machine, I thought its color looked more like the Hermes color...but owner said that was just his photo. This machine may look more smooth if much surface preparations were required before its repaint.
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p.s. Same color scheme as the Olympia SM5 from 1963. The SM5 went back to manually set Tab stops along the back and it has no touch-selector under the ribbon cover.
Photo, below, of a machine running on eBay this week :
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- Pete E.
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From Ted Munk's Bible publications...
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Thanks Pete. So now we know that the SG could be ordered with different keyboards, custom keyboards, different carriages, different typefaces and... a carbon ribbon attachment. What else? Was there a MILL version? I saw a SM9 MILL once, but never an SG. Oh, before I forget, the SM9 was also offered with reverse carriage (for Arabic), was this also possible with the SG?
