Typewriter Talk / Remington Portable 2

**Posted by malole** 07-6-2014 04:35:06

My rescue animal: I bought this not knowing if I would be able to get it working, purely to prevent yet another machine being chopped. (It was listed as material for chopping.) It cost me £7.50 and a lot of elbow grease. And it works now.

Last edited by malole (07-6-2014 04:56:57)

**Posted by Uwe** 07-6-2014 20:30:16

Bravo! Can you imagine such a beauty being destroyed for the sake of some junk jewellery?

**Posted by malole** 08-6-2014 03:05:57

Typing on it for the first time was magic. There was a fair bit of jumping up and down!

**Posted by beak** 08-6-2014 07:20:18

Congratulations. I can hardly imagine the level of barbarism that would destroy this for bad-taste baubles.
Have the earlier model without the protecters, and as you say, a pleasure to use; fast snappy action.

Your beautiful machine is now worth 10 to 20 times what you paid. Well done.

Last edited by beak (08-6-2014 21:07:03)

**Posted by malole** 08-6-2014 14:27:35

Thanks, beak! I've definitely got the bug.

**Posted by shouston** 09-6-2014 10:57:08

Wow, that turned out nice. I hope mine ends up near that beautiful after cleaning. Thanks for the inspiration.

**Posted by andyvb** 30-7-2014 12:24:20

Gorgeous! Any photos from before the restoration?

**Posted by malole** 30-7-2014 12:30:31

andyvb wrote:
Gorgeous! Any photos from before the restoration?

The dirty ones are from before I started work on it.