- Spazmelda
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Re: Restoring Woodstock No. 5 1926? Lotsa pics.
Now that Uwe helped me figure out my line spacing problem, I'll post a few pictures of how the cleaning is going.
I got the type bars and segment cleaned up and polished. I did actually end up polishing each type bar with metal polish. Probably overkill, but they were so dull and flat after cleaning with naphtha. I polished one just to see if it would make a difference, and it did, so I had to do all of them: 
I took the platen out and cleaned it off really well, and also polished up the end pieces. 
I've also worked on the inside, but pictures of that are kind of boring. The keys are polishing up nicely, but I don't have a good picture of them.
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Re: Restoring Woodstock No. 5 1926? Lotsa pics.
Looking good! The trick will be to keep it clean. I don't think polishing typebars is overkill IF it's going to be a showpiece machine for you, one that will always sit in a prominent place for others to admire. Most of my machines are stored and some rarely see the light of day, so in those cases I don't typically deep clean the machine to the extent that you're doing with your Woodstock.
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- Spazmelda
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Re: Restoring Woodstock No. 5 1926? Lotsa pics.
Haha, yeah. It's my first attempt at doing this. I want it to gleam. Maybe good practice if I ever get something really special. As I only have 3 manual typewriters (and one electric I used in college in 1990) they are all on display, lol. And by display I mean surrounded by filthy paper towels and q-tips on a work desk.
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Re: Restoring Woodstock No. 5 1926? Lotsa pics.
Spazmelda wrote:
And by display I mean surrounded by filthy paper towels and q-tips on a work desk.
That's as close as mine have ever gotten to displaying!
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Re: Restoring Woodstock No. 5 1926? Lotsa pics.
Urm... What exactly is varsol? I'm not finding much on it. Is it like mineral spirits?
Varsol IS mineral spirits. Varsol is a patented name. So when Standard Oil, Mobil Oil, ESSO, Exxon stopped making it other companies started making it under the name of Mineral Spirits. It's also known as Stoddards Formula and Inhibisol. But, your doing fine with naphtha. It's been a typewriter cleaner as long as Varsol. It's also known as Zippo Lighter Fluid and PB Blaster.
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- colrehogan
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Re: Restoring Woodstock No. 5 1926? Lotsa pics.
PB Blaster will help with degreasing and sticking keys. I got some at Lowe's but it might not be in the place you expect it to be. My first trip, we looked in the paint section. The second trip and it was in the small tool section where the hammers, small power tools etc. were at. Depends on who you ask on whether you will find it.
Smith Premier typewriters are cool!
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Re: Restoring Woodstock No. 5 1926? Lotsa pics.
Old post...but my local ACE Hardware does carry Varsol...
