Doctor_Will_Zayvus

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Lucas Dul will most definitely take care of your machine. He is a respected technician in the industry. I don’t know what his prices and schedule are like but it’s worth it to send him a message if you want.

There are alignment set screws in the carriage lift to set the shift height.

Very cool early Royal Deluxe with Norwegian(?) layout.

There are many sources I go to.

My guess would be something sticky is keeping it from returning without you pulling on the color selector like that. You can try a mild solvent like rubbing alcohol once you track down the area that you think is sticking. Try not to get it on the painted surfaces.

Id like to imagine reality as a Eulers disc that oscillates infinitely at the point of collapse; where things are stable enough to look normal, we spin indefinitely with a semblance of stability at this point- holding on, hoping things don’t fall apart.

Search for “typewriter drawband/mainspring” tutorials on YouTube there should be about 100 of them.

Give it a day or two out in the open. Type a couple pages on it and it will settle in.

It is certainly not an Olympia.

Agree. My first thought was a later Robotron Erika.

The lightest machines I have come across: (not in any specific order)

Pork nuggets

They are investments like a classic car is an investment. The market decides the value. You can sell low one day and high the next.

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I’d like to send her a Congress Elite Olympia SM3

$5 at the thrift store

The white powdery stuff is natural degassing of the plastics from old age. The whole machine can be cleaned up with an all purpose cleaner like simple green.

If you hand form the typebar then form the slug area to clear the typebar guide then you should be able to make horizontal adjustments with out any special tools.

I noticed there was a weird shift in music; I used to buy albums and listen to them cover to cover and let the music grow on me. It took a while to absorb the unfamiliar and make it familiar. Now we have to hook the listener in the first 10 seconds or less and this makes following a format the safest way to get ears on your track. The downside is that once you find the format of the familiar then every song latches onto that format and you end up having 10,000 songs that sound the same just to hook people into listening.

The main gear (escapement) of the typewriter need to be cleaned to make sure one of the things isn’t sticking wide open.

Drawband/mainspring tension is like 2 pounds. You could use yarn and it would work ;)

My local hardware store had a wide selection that worked. I think it was just a basic 5 mm grommet for $.39

Looks like you are not typing with the paper bail down. The paper should be fed into the machine with the bail down and the rollers making the paper feed toward the back of the machine.

Definitely going to need a parts machine or a trove of parts to pick from.

They are decent machines when they are cleaned up and tuned. A bit like a base model Futura 800. Nothing fancy but it will do the job.

Replacing the felt might help I bet, ones in certain places between the metal seem pretty flattened, but it would not be fun. I spent a good deal of time getting my new rubber grommets to stay in place where they were needed and they don't seem to help much.

The 5 series platens come out with a button press so experiment with the shrink tubing if you’d like. It’s $6 on eBay and it comes off with scissors if you don’t like it. It works about as much as running a few sheets of paper at a time so that’s usually just what I do.