Hi Tom,

I do wish more members are more active with postings and sharing their machines.

And I am surprised there are not more private member (vs. dealer) "For Sale" ads.  An active trader-section always brings in lots of member traffic.

I belong to a CF Martin acoustic guitar forum which has been around for over 30 years. 

The number of members posting show & tell stuff is way down...but the "Classifieds" section is always going at warp-speed. 

And the guitar photos in those for-sale ads is simply delicious eye-candy...even if one is not buying.
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For my part, I've not been on the forum as much because work and other commitments have had me completely swamped, and I've not purchased a new typewriter in over a year.

That said, I have been making very, very slow progress through my backlog of cleaning/restoration. I've a 1958 Imperial Good Companion 5 on the workbench which gets some attention in little 15-30 minute spurts. Just got it almost entirely back together. Unfortunately lost one of the little screws that holds the left margin stop together so I need to find a replacement (looks like it's M2.5, but I need to find a really short one or cut another down). 

Have done a few other experiments - like taking out the bichrome selector stop in my Artistic Script Torpedo 18b to see if it would do bichrome anyway (yes, with quality ribbon and good alignment), or testing out fountain-pen papers like Tomoe River and Yamamoto papers (TR is pretty decent) - but haven't had time to write anything up. 

The margin stop screw on your Good Companion will be a BA size (British Association thread, usually used on electrical fittings in the UK until metric took over).  'Imperial' - Imperial by name, and Imperial (measurements and threads) by nature !

Dear Rob,
                If you get badly stuck, let me know.  I might be able to find you a spare screw.  Thanks to your president, sending anything into the USA by post is incredibly difficult and expensive now, so see if you can find the original first !