- Pete E.
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Mike,
I think the in-between ribbon selector position (green on my machine) was to compensate for some waviness in the inking of 2-colour ribbons.
When I put my lever on "green" I get this mixed-salad of colour printing. Not sure a typist would really want to use that on their typed works.
I think Hermes did the same with their portables to compensate for ribbon maker variations in their 2-colour ribbons. But just a WAG on my part.
It took a bit of adjusting on my machine to get true "black and true "red" to print out on paper. I played with the upper/lower case adjustment to get the final result, below. About the best I could get.
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Mike,
I also had to play around with the "resting" position of my bell hammer.
Here is a top view and side view that yielded a nice "ding" sound with some sustain on my Aztec 600. Both photos taken with the hammer at "rest".
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mikeytap wrote:
Nice.
Along with the logo application, some interesting differences, like the color selector and the oval key shape.
I think someone remarked that the Aztec 500 and 700 were made by Erika and the Aztec 600 by Rheinmetall.
Mike, the Aztec 700 has all the bells and whistles that I see in the manual for an Erika 10 and looks the same.
I find the engineering of this machine amazing every time I pull it out of the case. I can't help but wonder what the reasoning was behind rebranding for sale in the North American market unless it had to do with imports from East German manufacturers at the time?
George
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Re: Recent Acquisitions Thread
Mike,
I also had to play around with the "resting" position of my bell hammer.
Here is a top view and side view that yielded a nice "ding" sound with some sustain on my Aztec 600. Both photos taken with the hammer at "rest".
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Pete,
Thanks for that bell picture. I see my hammer is much closer to the bell at rest and was wondering which way to form it.
And the color switch position comments make sense. I may just install an all black ribbon.
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Re: Recent Acquisitions Thread
Ribbon Position Indicator on Aztec and others : Blue = Black, Red = Red, White = Stencil i.e. ribbon is disabled to allow the cutting of duplicator (mimeograph) stencils. The intermediate position, on some makes yellow, is the mid-ribbon setting. What is mid-ribbon for ? Well, if you have a single colour ribbon installed, for instance All-Black, you can use the black setting until the ink gets pale, then switch to the red setting to use another band of ink on the bottom of the ribbon, then the mid-ribbon setting to use a third band of fresh ink from the centre of the ribbon. Very economical !
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Ribbon Position Indicator on Aztec and others : Blue = Black, Red = Red, White = Stencil i.e. ribbon is disabled to allow the cutting of duplicator (mimeograph) stencils. The intermediate position, on some makes yellow, is the mid-ribbon setting. What is mid-ribbon for ? Well, if you have a single colour ribbon installed, for instance All-Black, you can use the black setting until the ink gets pale, then switch to the red setting to use another band of ink on the bottom of the ribbon, then the mid-ribbon setting to use a third band of fresh ink from the centre of the ribbon. Very economical !
Makes sense typewriterman. An extra position to make use of more ribbon, and to correct for ribbon variations as Pete said. I think I"ll only buy black ribbons in the future. I suppose red was useful for accounting entries back in the old days.
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Mike,
I like using 2-colours...as when I use the lower colour for emphasis.
For example...closing a note to family...
" All Our Love To You And Your Family. "
I guess with 1 colour, I could use...
"All Our LOVE To You And Your Family. "
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