Bremerton Typewriter Company

Royal Portable P Apothecary Keyboard

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This is a customers machine, and who is always on the hunt for unique opportunities. This Royal Portable P Apothecary keyboard machine does not disappoint. The machine has a nice creamy white paint color and I love the pharmacy symbols. No, this typewriter is not for sale. Eye candy only. … [Read more...]

Royal KHM from 1938 with Special Character

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This is a customer machine brought in for all sorts of stuff; new feet, frame spacers, ribbon covers, bent type bars, etc. WIDE Carriage alert! A big twenty inches wide is this Royal KHM from 1938 with Special Characters. Was this an engineering machine, a map maker machine? Enquiring minds want to know.   Notice the ribbon feed modification, one direction only. The typewriter came with remnants of a single use … [Read more...]

Smith-Corona with 8 cpi Type Face is a Math Wizard

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This Smith Corona Sterling typewriter is a customer machine in for service. The machine looks like a special order with 8 cpi type face and a few mathematics symbols on the key board. I imagine a high school teacher writing their math quizzes every week on this machine.  … [Read more...]

Eatons Prestige Typewriter in a Lovely Brown

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This is a customer machine from 1957 brought in for a good de-stinking and general tune up. I like the style Eatons endowed on the Prestige typewriter (a re-branded Smith-Corona). The mildew was strong with this one. We often get in typewriters that developed odors while stored for decades. We wash as much of the machine we are able, then disinfect the insulation and give the carrying case a good cleaning. This works much of the time. It … [Read more...]

Typewriter Fever Type-In Saturday August 7!

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The shop is closed this Saturday, August 7, so I can go to the Typewriter Fever Type-In! Since my shop is closed Saturday, come on over to Don and Britt's event! Address: 620 N Callow Ave Bremerton Time: 10:00 to whenever Bring your machines for Show and Tell, Swaps, Sea Stories , etc etc. I hear from Don there are PRIZES!   Masks will be required at this event, I'm sure everyone attending will have had their vaccine shots, … [Read more...]

Pink Olympia SM7 was really gummed up

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This delightful pink colored Olympia SM7 from the year 1964 came to the shop as a recent customer purchase. It featured the most dreadful orangish brown gooey gunk stopping up the outer type bars. This sludgy stuff is the thing of legends. So hard to remove. Fortunately, this machine can be put in the water bath sonicator to soften thing up. Then, after multiple solvent episodes, the type bars started to loosen up. In the end, we … [Read more...]

Remington Noiseless 7 Portable Dirt Bucket

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You know those adorable before and after puppy pet rescue photos you see on the interwebs? This Remington Noiseless Model Seven reminded me of those. The machine came in for service filthy, bad feet, flat paper rollers, the works. It just looks like a sad puppy waiting for some love. This puppy got cleaned, new rubber and a tune up. Now it looks like the after puppy photos; so happy! … [Read more...]

Smith-Corona Typewriter with Speech-Riter Type Face

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The most unassuming typewriters come into the shop and delight me with pleasant surprises. This customer's Smith-Corona Classic 12 Typewriter is in the shop for some general service and a new J. J. Short platen. I love the enormous and tall type face called Speech-Riter No. 29, 6 cpi. Such a lovely machine. … [Read more...]