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| 1950 Montana Luxe |
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| Original Type Bar Rest |
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| Type bars did not align. |
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| Some cork was missing. |
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| The shades were really flattened areas of paint that needed to wrinkle again to match the rest of the housing. This may have been caused by me towel drying some places harder than others or even from holding the housing in that area, or it could have been normal wear that I did not notice before cleaning. |
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| New Type Bar Rest Installed |
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| All the bars nicely aligned |
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| The obvious gap in the rest is now gone. |
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| The day ended with a Steampunked Skyriter |
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| Me operating outside the fire station. |
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| This is what happens when I do a typecast from the work bench |
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| I also repeat myself |
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| I use this on the chrome and other non painted metal and plating |
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| Same as FinishLine, but from Lowe's it is $3.00 to $4.00 cheaper. |
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| Not bad for $5.00, it works too, but smells like rotten tobacco smoke |
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| Can you guess which is the Montana Luxe and which is teh Hermes Baby? |
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| The Luxe, Skyriter, and Baby |
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| Skyriter is a bit larger, taller and heavier than the Baby |
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| A RockMite 40 (Thought notagain might enjoy) |
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| Remember my SM4 from my last post? |
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| This is how the space bar will allow the machine to type |
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| From this position to about half way down all carriage functions work fine. |
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| This is the linkage to activate the escapement. Types fine. |
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| The space bar linkage when properly fitted and the machine will not funcito. |
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| This is what should be normal space bar alignment. The machine will not type. Even the carriage lock will not align. |
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| My normally sloppier than this desk. I really do type with small typewriters alongside the PCs. |
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| Standing guard on the sidewalk. Non-venomous. |
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| Don't bother me. I'm watching for bad guys. |
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| Eastern Rat Snake. Eats lizards, frogs, rats and various small rodents. |
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| $4.99 @ the local Super Target |
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| The original notebooks |
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| Sorry for the sloppy writing. I've been drinking too much coffee and that makes me shaky. |
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| Available in the USA @ Amazon |
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| I like to keep the shop nice and neat. |
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| This is the coolest Underwood Insignia I have seen. |
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| This typewriter was not all that dirty. |
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| The type slugs were really filled with dirt, grime and old ink. The degree symbol must not have been used much as it was not filled with dirt. |
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| pP, q, e, Dd, 9, g, etc. were especially filled. |
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| The small keys on the very left and right of the top row are the TAB Clear and Set. |
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| Margin settings are easily and clearly seen through the slots. The left is not as visible in the photo as it is red. I should have fill flashed it. |
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| These are the margin stop setting buttons. They push in and slide. |
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| This is what the machine looked like when it arrived. It's difficult to see the mildew on the keys from this view. |
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| Mildew covered keys. |
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| After cleaning, not perfect, but not filled with dirt. |
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| This is explained in detail in my August 9, 2013 post |
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| There are several cracks similar to this all over the platen |
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| Olympia's unique method of keeping the key tops parallel to the desk while typing. |
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| Rubber grommets and washer from Ace Hardware |
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| These are the springs that adjust the shift tension. |
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| I have these pulled quite taunt with a bit to spare |
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| I used a dial calipers to set both sides the same. Counting the exposed threads will work fine too. |
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| The vinyl on the case was in bad shape and peeling. I removed it and left the wood as it was found. I was going to sand and re-varnish it, but it looks fine as it is shown. |
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| Hint. Look at the end of my workbench -- previous post. |
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| I could not find the model name for this one. It looks like several. Closest I can find is the Rhythm Touch. |
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| I guess you can tell I get 2 sections of a typecast from one sheet. |
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| I like the shift lock key on both sides. The margin set on these is different than the ones on the rear. Left sets the right margin and right sets the left margin. The setting is made by squeezing the indicator and sliding it into position. |
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| Left Side. Pressure rollers are still soft. Platen is hard. Feeds paper like a champ. Straight and even from the start all through to the end. |
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| Right Side. |
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| I just noticed I typed one CR on the right and the one on the right. It should be the one on the left is a carriage return and line feed while the one on the right is just a hook that can move the carriage. |
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| Left end |
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| Right end. Is this a right hand carriage return or is it used in conjunction with the carriage release to guide the carriage to position? What is the purpose of the chrome piece under it? The tab beside the hook, when pressed, allows the left margin stop to be over-ridden. |
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| The typewriter was quite dusty, but the bottom is near spotless. |
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| Carriage return / line feed |
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| Card guides in position |
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| Card Guides retracted |
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| I thought this was unique. Nearly hidden is the ribbon guide where the ribbon comes off the spool. There is a little lever on the spool holder that moves the guide out. It is spring return. Sorry, I mis-spelled guide. |
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| Halda - Facit, Underwood had a round smooth easy (easier than my TP-1 actually) to slide carriage rail too. |
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| The only thing on the back (sorry I did not take a photo) is Underwood Standard across the top and in the middle Product of Underwood Corporation. I've always liked the scale and margin sets right on the front of the carriage. |
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| The only thing I find referencing 11 is in 1927. This machine is newer than 1927. |
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| This is my stand-up typing desk. The HHP sits on top of 2 old speakers at one end of the work bench. This could be captioned A Contrast in Technologies. The computer is reflecting the ceiling light. |
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| All I did to this one is blow the dust out of it and install a fresh ribbon from Jay Respler. |
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| This is quite like it looked when I received it. |
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| My favorite feature, an easy to read, accurate position indicator. |
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| These are the card guides that flip down by a little lever beside each one. |
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| I ran out of paper. The last of this section is repeated below. |
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| All the text in the original is clear. For some reason it blurred. Blogger is too finicky to remove and try to insert an image. So please pardon the blurrs. |
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| This little cover flips forward to open allowing removal of the cylinder. |
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| Here it is. Royal's own name for the ribbon carrier and cylinder. |
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| There are D-shapes in the left end of the platen that fit over the drive pin. |
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| Thought I'd start adding serial number locations. All I need to do is remember to do it with all typewriters. |
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| Crappy lighting and no tripod. Sorry for being out of focus. |
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| From the Carina 2. Needs a bit of aligning. |
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| Surprisingly clean. |
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| Nice typer for a Nakajima. Quiet, soft platen too. |
