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...]

This customer machine was brought in with totally stoved up type bars. Upon inspection, a mouse nest appears! Years of the high life living in this Hermes Standard 8 from 1959 really must have been fun. Rust, corrosion, nest debris, and the smell was awesome! The machine got multiple cleanings until just a handful of typebars were stuck. Finally taking off the lower slotted fulcrum and individually honing each pivit did the trick. This … [Read more...]

This customer machine came in for general cleaning and a tune up. I love the different type faces typewriters present and this Smith-Corona Sterling comes with Numode #61 type face (9 cpi). You never know what you find on a typewriter hunt and even the most common looking machines will surprise you. Enjoy. … [Read more...]

This is a customer's machine brought in for an overhaul. I like that this Smith Premier No. 2, serial number 13366, is from 1896. The typewriter still has the wood base and sheet metal cover. The typewriter received new rubber feet, new platen and fresh ribbon. We dismantled the machine to the type bar ring removing decades of shellacked oils. After that, the spring drum and ribbon feed was serviced, oiled and adjusted plus cleaning … [Read more...]

This customer machine is a Patria portable typewriter with a Swiss key board. The typewriter was brought in for general cleaning and a tune up. This machine puts really nice print on paper. Enjoy the photos. … [Read more...]

This plastic covered Erika Daro portable typewriter is a customers brought in as the variable line spacer was not working, the paper feed also a bit wonky and the ribbon vibrator sticking. After a dip in our trusty sonicating water bath, the typewriter came out all nice and clean. The variable was frozen in the platen tube and once removed and degreased, started working. The paper tray was deformed preventing paper feeding and needed a bit of … [Read more...]