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- colrehogan
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Re: Save this Royal ARROW (and others) from the Keychoppers
Are feed rollers the same from machine to machine? I'm aware of the one place that sells them. I think a folding typewriter is cool. Would the manual help? This particular one has a manual in the case.
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- Uwe
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Re: Save this Royal ARROW (and others) from the Keychoppers
No, feed rollers can vary in diameter and length from one model to the next. Or did you mean between two Corona 3 models? In that case they would be the same. You won't find anything in the owner's manual concerning the feed rollers, not if it's the same manual that I have:
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- Seamus
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Re: Save this Royal ARROW (and others) from the Keychoppers
Is a "key chopper" someone who buys the machine just for the key tops? That's sacrilege! That's like killing an elephant just for tusks!
- colrehogan
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Re: Save this Royal ARROW (and others) from the Keychoppers
A key chopper is someone who owns the machine but then chops the key tops off to sell just those.
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- malole
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Re: Save this Royal ARROW (and others) from the Keychoppers
Or a keychopper might also be someone who sees some naff jewelry on pinterest and decides to make some themselves. I have seen 'tutorials' on exactly how they like to do it, and which machines they tend to go for as 'easy' to chop. Pinterest was where I first saw chopped keys, and I was really baffled at first, "what happened?" sort of thing 
- Seamus
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Re: Save this Royal ARROW (and others) from the Keychoppers
I told my wife about keychoppers this morning, and she already knew it was a thing. She likes the typewriter key jewelry, and said she's always wanted a bracelet made from keys. I told her she better not be eye-balling my typewriters. 
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- KatLondon
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Re: Save this Royal ARROW (and others) from the Keychoppers
Surely a keychopper is anyone who either owns the machine and sells it for the keys, or chops the keys and just sells those, or buys it just for the keys, or buys the chopped keys, or buys the jewellery and thus perpetuates the waste.
You increasingly see other parts of typewriters for sale on US eBay - I wonder if the keychoppers are getting wise to the value of the parts. Lots of loose typebars, etc. Not nice. But some of the parts may be useful I suppose...
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- ztyper
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Re: Save this Royal ARROW (and others) from the Keychoppers
I can see the ethics of chopping the keys off a machine beyond repair. A parts machine really. But what really gets me going is when I see typewriters in better condition without those keys, than some of the other typewriters that I actually own. It's such a sad, pathetic sight...
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- Spazmelda
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I just still can't wrap my head around the idea that the world still needs more typewriter key jewelry. You'd think there would be enough by now. Maybe they will start moving toward the replica keys. Seems like it would be a lot easier, and you could be more creative with what you out under the glass.
- BrianE
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Re: Save this Royal ARROW (and others) from the Keychoppers
I don't understand the prices, but didn't bother to read all the ads closely.
One is going to charge $84 just for the keys? They're made out of silver or something?
And what happens when a customer's name has the same letters-- "Jennifer"
"Jennifer" is going to have to shell out $168 if she wants a bracelet?
Seems a marginal business, but no accounting for taste I guess.
Just random thoughts on nice friday evening. : )
