Rob,

Here are photos of 1 of 2 of my Parades.

In Photo 2, my machine has a "floating" flat washer that might be acting as a spacer-washer.  Both of my machines have this "floating" flat washer.  I could not tell from your photos if you have this or not.

In Photo 3, there is an extension spring.  I could not tell from your photos if you have that spring in place or not.

In Photo 4, there are two (2) screws that have elongated screw slots thourgh which the screws pass.  This might allow some adjustment for the linkage bar.

I will leave my machine out for a day or so...in case you want other photo-views from my end.

Hope my photos are of some help to you.
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Rob, Sorry for the delay on my end...

"  When your machine is in lowercase, and you type, does it stay in the upper position in the slot and immediately start pulling the drive bar, or does it move down to the lower (caps) position before pulling ? "

Yes, in lower case it stays in the upper position in the slot and immediately starts pulling the drive bar.  (See the first 2 photos, below.)  These 2 photos are with the machine mostly flat on the table and shift in lower-case and no key-top has been struck,

Following in the next Post are some more photos.  Hope these help.
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Thanks, Pete! This helps a lot. It confirms what I thought the problem is: on my machine, at rest in lowercase, the universal linkage sits in the middle, in the 45 degree part of the slot, so when it starts to move, it goes down first. 

From your photos, it looks like the bar angles down somewhat, certainly more than mine, and may have a slight angle in the end piece vs the rest of the shaft.



I'll go look around mine a bit more in comparison. I don't want to start bending things if I can avoid it.

Thanks, Pete.

I tried that, but it didn't help much.

Looking at my machine and yours in the photos, I notice that the front, vertical part of the drive shaft on yours angles slightly more downward than the back half of the shaft, and on mine, angled upward. So, I gave it a slight bend in the middle, and now it's working fine.

Now I'm trying to understand why the lowercase impression is much lighter than the caps, even though the ribbon is now correctly placed in both positions. The caps looks to be on-foot, and the lowercase is aligned with it, but the lowercase barely touches the paper. Will look at ring & cylinder, but I would expect that to effect both positions equally.
 

Laurenz van Gaalen wrote:

robmck wrote:

Now I'm trying to understand why the lowercase impression is much lighter than the caps, even though the ribbon is now correctly placed in both positions. The caps looks to be on-foot, and the lowercase is aligned with it, but the lowercase barely touches the paper. Will look at ring & cylinder, but I would expect that to effect both positions equally.

Hi Rob,

The issue you describe may have to do with how the Royalite on-foot adjustment works. On most typewriters the on-foot adjustment screws move the carriage up or down. Because the Royalite uses concentric nuts for the adjustment, the carriage is not only moved up or down, but also forward and backward. 
 

Interesting. Thanks, Laurenz. That explains why the angle of motion seems to be wrong. It sounds like a system of many variables. 

I also notice that with the motion adjusted as I have it now, the caps sit lower than the caps-lock will go (the lock bracket is as far down as it will go). Perhaps that's a hint that the whole thing is in the wrong place.

Is there an approach you'd recommend? 

I wonder if I should ignore the caps for now, get ring & cylinder and on-foot set for the lowercase, then bring the caps in to match (hoping that it lands where the caps-lock can be set to)...