Bremerton Office Machine Company

Now This is Typewriter Art!

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This is a customers Royal KMM machine from 1945 brought in after being a display in their shop for a very, very long time. This is just about as Americana as you can get with typewriter art. What a great object! Sooo dirty with missing carriage bearings and a broken carriage return lever. Oh yes, a dropped typewriter along with all the damage that comes with it. Oh, and add a touch of rust in many wrong places. This baby was jammed and only … [Read more...]

What does it mean to be a Repair Person?

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Have you ever thought of going to Typewriter Tech School? I often chat with customers about why I enjoy repairing stuff. Every so often someone will ask if they can hang out or volunteer to learn how to commune with typewriters. Heck yes! I love sharing what I know. So what do I really do here in the shop? Well lots of cleaning. Cosmetically, mechanically or chemically I try to get all the decades of goo cleared out so the typewriter gets a … [Read more...]

The Mighty Olympia SG1 is an Engineers Machine

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This mighty Olympia SG1 from 1958 is a customer machine brought in for a bunch of deferred maintenance. This guy had a bit of corrosion all over which complicated the clean up. Multiple sticking keys, tabs not working, margin lock hung up . . . the usual. What I like about this machine is the custom keyboard with the engineering symbols. Plus the type face is double gothic! … [Read more...]

L.C. Smith Standard #8 from the Year 1918

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This big lunker of a L.C.Smith Standard #8 typewriter from the Year 1918 is a customers. In for major clean up, a new platen, new paper rollers, new feet and removing decades of decrepitude. This baby had a heavy layer of shellac which remarkably saved the decals. Of course that stuff was smeared over much of the internals. Fortunately denatured alcohol works its wonder. All in all a nice gift for a typewriter enthusiast. … [Read more...]