Robert Messenger has a great post on his L.C. It has a light, springy touch which I assume is due to the ball bearings in the typebars. I happily typed out a long letter and it loosened more and more with each printed line. And there was a circa 1920 cigar cutter jammed between the universal bar and the line lock bail.Īfter cleaning with denatured alcohol, the typewriter began to type and type beautifully. Smith home, there were several immobile keys – the basket was dusty, rusty and gummed-up. When I run out of ideas on one, I move to the other. Since I got back from a recent family vacation, I have been alternating working on the 1922 L.C. I had to soften the paint with paint remover to get the rusty old screws out. The machine had been badly repainted at some point, and whoever did it had painted over all the screws. I removed the side cover plates, front cover plate and key lever comb. 8 out with care and feeding instructions as well as the cigar cutter I had found inside her.Īs soon as I got home I started stripping down the other machine. I felt a strange little tug when I left my L.C. I was trading the looks and performance of one typewriter for the fun and entertainment of the other. Moe was all for a typewriter swap – especially since my L.C. I put both typewriters into the trunk of my car and went to Moe’s to pitch the idea. I could go to the blasting cabinet at Tech Shop, strip it, re-paint it, and finally get to play with those wonderful typewriter decals I hear so much about. I could take it apart and clean it properly. 8 and I take this poor decrepit hunk of rusty iron and make it mine. Sure, I could get it to type, but couldn’t it be better? What if…I make this a project machine? This typewriter is so bad that there is no way, no how that I could do this typewriter justice in just two days. In yet another metaphor, my feverish thoughts caught fire! Slowly, slowly the wheels began to turn and gain momentum. ribbon color selector key lever frozen with rust – mehĪ seed of a thought began to grow and take shape in my brain.shifting sluggish and lacking bounce – meh.no dinging bell and dangling spring in back – meh.rusted ribbon feed mechanism on right side – meh.
flattened and frozen feed rollers – blug.broken draw strap – that’s OK, I fixed that right off the bat.This poor old thing has a lot problems, some serious, some not: I am sad to see that this typebar has broken from its attachment to the segment. 8, and you can read all about those amazing L.C. Robert Messenger has a great post on a rebuilt L.C.
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