Thread-bare

Anyone know where I can get replacement ribbon for a Blick Universal/Klein Adler? Because of the horizontal striking action, and being a three-bank, the type-head depth calls for a 3/4" ribbon. Is this unique to this machine? Was 3/4" the Betamax of Golden Age Saxony? I re-inked this ribbon with a tube of ballpoint ink with some success - but it is perforated and becoming thread-bare.

typecast #2

A little bleak but Typewriter Heaven seems as good a place as any.


Circa 1982. From the keys of my Blick Universal

Getting there

Blick Universal under the spotlight

Only half a dozen or so more machines to photograph and upload:

• Corona Junior
• Corona 3
• Antares Parva (from 1960s Italy)
• Underwood 4-bank in hnd painted brown (yuk)
• Remington Home Portable
• Remington Rand Model 1
• Remington Portable Model 5 (streamline)
• Imperial Good Companion (from Leicester)
• Corona 4 (the organ donor)