Typewriter Talk / Olympia Traveller Deluxe S - With Tab Function...

**Posted by Laurenz van Gaalen** 26-9-2023 11:40:38

Looks surprisingly good!

**Posted by Pete E.** 26-9-2023 14:00:03

Hi Lau,

Thanks for the compliment. I enjoy adding touches of paint to machines now and then.

I had picked up this made-in-Japan Olympia 3 (Traveller looking machine) since it did have the factory fixed-Tabulator feature...thinking Olympia never added a Tabulator to their small machines.

It is a decent machine but not quite the feel of the real Travellers.
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**Posted by Pete E.** 27-9-2023 09:38:45

Since I have two (2) other Travellers (made-in-Germany), I thought I could just move a set of ribbon spools over from one of those to my newer (made-in-Yugoslvia) machine.

I was wanting to see if my red-black ribbon colour bleeding issue with the bit taller cursive print-outs would be resolved with using all metal spools.

Curious that the spool spindles/shafts on the German-made machines are a small diameter than that used on the Yugoslavia-made machine.

I dug through my horde of un-used metal spools and found 2 metal spools that fit the Yugoslavian machine. Wound up some new ribbon on those metal spools and now there is no bleeding of colour on the print outs.

The wobble of the plastic spools I initially used seemed to be the problem.
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**Posted by Laurenz van Gaalen** 27-9-2023 09:49:18

Thread about Olympia spindle/shaft diameters:

https://typewriter.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=3937

**Posted by Pete E.** 28-9-2023 12:41:02

Thanks Lau...

Funny...my made-in-Japan machine takes the same spools as my made-in Yugoslavia machine with their bit larger spindle size.

The spindles on my SF and my 2 Travellers (made in Germany) have the smaller spindle sizes.

There is a 13-page pdf-file of a spool comparison chart with photos/illustrations...done by the Bushnell Co. but all spools are listed by a "AT-xxx" part number which may have been an in-house company stock numbering system.

This pdf-file is nearly 37 MB in size.

If anyone is interested in receiving this pdf-file, send me a Message with an email address and I will send it to you.

**Posted by Pete E.** 18-8-2024 10:38:25

I have another 197x Olympia Traveller Deluxe S coming in from the UK. Should be in the States in a week or so.

I wanted one that I could repaint in a yellow-ish colour.

I chose Rustoleum's "Sweet Mango" in satin finish. Have the paint now...just waiting for the machine. It is Yugoslavia-made and has the Tabulator feature with fixed factory-stops.
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**Posted by Pete E.** 18-8-2024 10:43:30

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It will join the other re-paints in my Traveller-clan :
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**Posted by thetypewriterman** 19-8-2024 03:01:38

As a matter of interest, Rustoleum has been available in the UK for about 10 years now. At first imported direct from America and now made in a factory here. It is very good quality paint.

**Posted by Pete E.** 31-8-2024 09:41:56

Typewriter spa-day completed, yesterday. Repaint in "Sweet Mango" from Rustoleum.

Peel & stick felt added to the underside of the ribbon cover and to 2/3 of the interior of the bottom pan. I usually do not add felt to underneath the key-tops, as I think it would just collect food stuffs and drink spills.

From the serial number, this Yugoslavia-made machine was produced sometime in the early 1980's. The TWDB does not go past SN's in the late 1970's.

Only adjustment this machine needed was to its Shift-Lock mechanism.
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**Posted by Pete E.** 19-9-2024 13:44:59

Spray paint in search of a Traveller...

Did this one sort of backwards...got the paint, first...
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