$25. It's pretty close to working. I think it just needs to be cleaned and such. But I don't know anything about servicing IBM Electrics, and I choose to accept that I'm not going to figure it out. And so, as much as I loved the idea of proportionately spaced recipe cards, I'm ready to let it find a better home.
Motor works great, power roller works great, carriage return and automatic line spacer works great, tab stops work, and the machine overall is very sprightly.
Local pickup is strongly preferred because this is heavy, large, and internally fragile. I'm in Taylor County, Texas, but willing to drive up to 3 hours each way in return for a minor contribution to the gas tank fund.
I will be driving to Houston on August 20th and also to Fort Worth (it's next to Dallas) the week after. So if you're in either of those cities, I am more than willing to put this in the car and detour to bring it to you.
I will be sure to update when it's sold. So if I haven't, it's still here and waiting for you!




List of problems (aka why this is so cheap):
-Ribbon feeder is too gummed up to feed.
-This uses carbon-film ribbon and I honestly don't want to deal with special-ordering it.
-Left margin only works sporadically. Sometimes, when you press the return key, the carriage goes all the way to the end of the rail and bonks into a dead stop.
-Some of the letters don't make a good impression (see pictures).
-The line-finder mechanism (which, according to the instructions, allows you to automatically revert to a previous line after making a correction) may or may not work.
-The sound-dampening foam is, of course, crumbling away.