I braved the garage with the door open, today, and cleaned up the case and the machine.  It warmed up to 32* F. today, outside.  Inside of the garage stayed a nice 44* F. during my work.

Case needed its plastic injection molded "insert" glued back in place at the bottom of the case and the 2 closed-foam blocks  needed to be glued back in place on the inside of the lid to keep the ribbon cover in place.

Machine just needed a good cleaning and light oiling.  The "Copeland" brand belts looked good, no cracks, and still flexible.  I took measurements, anyways, so I can hunt down a spare set.

Paper support just needed its power-spring reattached as it came loose on one end.

New silk ribbon is on order and the machine still has its metal spools.

Will give it a week or two before I decide to add come colour to the ribbon cover, or not...
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Hi Dave,

I like electrics on days when my hands are shot from gardening and other chores and projects around the house since I retired.

I also like to use an electric to crank out a "final" version of a letter or pages I am typing up. 

Electrics, for me, can be a real "production" machines.  But I always use a manual for very thoughtful first/rough draft work.

I even have a nice cursive-script Olympia SGE-35...which is probably my favourite electric (out of 8 in my collection) to use.
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I just got an original copy of the User Manual for the Olympia SKE - Rport Electric (Made In Germany).  Machine in the Opening Post.

I have scanned all the pages and will send them to Richard Polt to have him add it to his "Manual" web site.

I will let folks, here, now when Richard gets the manual up on his web site...so you can down-load a pdf-copy for free.
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Wow, that looks so much better. Nice work!

Thanks, too, for contributing scans of the manual. It's great to expand our collective knowledge. Did you buy the manual on ebay or some such?