This Smith Corona 250 came in a week or so ago...but too blasted cold to do much with it.

Today we warmed up to 50*F, so the 250 had its first day of spa-day in my garage.

This is the non-Secretarial version of the 250.  However it does have the taller (and longer) rubber feet on the bottom and it has the 2-stage motor which kicks into high-speed for the power return.  But metal body panels are not the heavy-duty ones on the Secretarial 250 and the rubber rollers on the paper bail are not the jumbo-sized as on the Secretarial 250.

Speaking of power return...its white key-top (shown in the SGW photo) was missing and no where to be found in the shipping box or packaging.  No worry...I had parted out a 220 so had lots of spare parts.  I think its new black-coloured power return key-top looks a bit better.

(My Blue Olympia SM7 that come from SGW was also missing its return-key during the packing and shipping process.)

I also had the ribbon cover off of that parted-out 220...so gave it a paint job in a nice tan/khaki colour.

This new 250 had a bit too much grey-on-grey going on for my tastes.

The 250 got a thorough cleaning and light lube, new ribbon (blue/red nylon) on old metal spools, and new small drive v-belts. 

Return is a power-return and the space bar is single-space if you press it only 1/2 way down or a full repeater if you press the space-bar to its bottom limit.  Same with the power back-space.  One at a time or full repeater if you hold it down.

Still need to figure out why the Tab-set does not seem to establish new settings for a Tab.  Tab and Tab clear work fine.

The machine weighs in at 19.4 lbs.  IIRC...these 250's were sold without cases as an office machine.

Tomorrow I will get all the cowlings screwed in place and the newly-painted ribbon cover back on its hinges.  More photos to follow...then.
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