This Corona 4 portable is a customer machine in for service. A purple and gold crackle finish, is perfect for that person attending the University of Washington. This typewriter is in very nice condition complete with the case and manual. The customer had us put PURPLE ribbon on the machine. Love it. C5A02203 … [Read more...]

I've seen plenty Royal Dreyfuss Quiet DeLuxe typewriters that are the gold metal plated anniversary edition. Well . . . in photos on the interwebs. Pretty snazzy. I've never had one actually walk into the shop until today. Our friend Ray Montgomery in Astoria ran into some nice folks who shared this gold typewriter with him. Well he got all giddy on them. Got those folks all excited about what they possessed. I'm certainly happy they … [Read more...]

Greg brought us this 1958 Vertical Script Smith-Corona for a new platen, paper rollers and a cleaning and tune up. I like how common the model that hides such type face delights. You don't see many Vertical Script type faces. I think Smith-Corona did a fine job with this one. The new platen made a huge difference in print quality and reduced niose. 5T747949X … [Read more...]

This customer machine is a hefty thirty inch wide beast. From the Mason County Historical Society, the typewriter needed a good cleaning, new rubber feet and the paper bale rollers needed replacing. It took a bit of maneuvering at the solvent cleaning station to get everything cleaned. Man this guy is heavy. Screw this one to your desk top or it will FLY AWAY! … [Read more...]

Look at what came into the shop for service and a new platen. A 1941 Smith-Corona 3A Sterling Speedline portable typewriter with a custom music keyboard. This is well before the Music Print Corporation came into existence.  People still craved typewriters to do specific jobs and ordered custom layouts. I thought, as I was looking at this beauty, if Taylor Swift used a typewriter to craft her art. . . This would be the one. Lyrics, notes, … [Read more...]

This is a customer typewriter in for service. Not used for decades and stored in all the right places. Really, it came to us in pretty much the condition you see in the photos. All of us in the shop said Wow, just Wow. What the typewriter really needed was a good solvent cleaning and all the rubber stuff replaced. We replaced the hard rubber feet, the sorta flat paper rollers and the brittle rubber tab rest. I like these "desktop" … [Read more...]

It is funny how typewriters seem to come into the shop in groups. Apparently, this is IBM Selectric typewriter month. We have so many Selectrics lined up for service and repair!  Many have deteriorated drive belts and cracked cycle clutch main gears. Also, the main electric drive motor, the drive clutch and main power switch all need to be pulled apart and serviced. We see a lot of plastic fatigue, with plastic items falling apart. Pretty … [Read more...]

Well, look what wandered into the shop courtesy of Ray. A beautiful Noiseless Standard 5 with a steel platen and fourteen inch wide carriage. According to the serial number 76835 this typewriter is from 1923.  It types with the original ribbon! Ray, thank you for the donation. This big old machine will have a good life sitting here being admired as one of our reference machines. … [Read more...]

A customer machine in for service, this is a fine example of the Remington Pioneer typewriter. Gotta love the ALL CAPS plus no margins, no carriage return arm, no bell, no back space no this no that no other distractions. JUST TYPE TYPE TYPE! The type impression was fading on the bottom. How to adjust? loosen the carriage mounts and slide the carriage either to the rear or front. Tighten the screws, you are done. … [Read more...]

A customer brought in this Smith-Corona PoweRiter battery/AC electric operated typewriter to see if we could get it running. Plugged the machine in, it did nothing. At least the machine did not sparkle or go boom. The drive belt was toast. And by toast it was crumbly and broke apart as soon as I touched it. No amount of butter or honey is going to revive this one. Damn. I knew it would be a chore finding a replacement 0.080 pitch MXL cogged belt … [Read more...]