This Royal portable P green typewriter is a customer machine in for service. Very dusty when it arrived and in need of cleaning. I like the keyboard with the special ordered accent keys. A nice machine from 1930. … [Read more...]

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...]

Recently, a long time customer of Mr. Montgomery stopped by with an early model Selectric machine for service. He said it hadn't seen service for a little while. Yep, it needed a bit of deferred maintenance. He was not willing to have the machine serviced as the cost would be a bit crazy. Instead he left it with me and bought a super reliable Smith-Corona wheel writer. I think he made the right choice. Just for kicks, I took the machine out of … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]