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Remington Standard 11 Typewriter from the year 1920

December 3, 2016 By Paul

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I like the older Remington side spool machines as they are over engineered wonders. Don’t loose those ribbon spools unless you enjoy spending your hard won dollars; they are hard to find.

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This beast needed a heavy cleaning that included removing shellack from most of the surfaces. While popular to brighten fading paint; this time it was all over mechanical surfaces and it took WAY too much alcohol to dissolve that gunk from the carriage, ribbon feed, margin stops, tab rack, back spacer, I can go on and on. 2016-11-08-13-50-08 2016-11-08-13-49-36

The funny thing, it also got much of the shellack off the paint and the machine polished up kinda nice. Once I freed everything up so stuff moved I got to work. It was missing a foot and the customer couldn’t find one so I got the last foot off my Remington parts machine.

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The back space spring was broken and it looks like someone tried to adjust it not knowing all it needed was a replacement. I made new paper feed rollers as the old ones were so rotted.

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There were various missing screws throughout the machine so maybe that shellack job held things together just waiting for a good servicing. It types real nice and looks good to boot.

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