Showing posts with label maintenance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maintenance. Show all posts

Monday 29 July 2013

Studio 44 conundrum - solved


UPDATE
Thanks Ted for this advice.
As you can see, as far as cover removal goes at least, the 21 and the 44 are similar enough. Set those tabs wide and bring the carriage hard to port. Another great carriage removal avoidance ploy.



Monday 7 March 2011

Oil bodkin

Here's an oil can which arrived in the lid of a Corona 4. The oil in it has a fragrant eucalyptus scent. Over-oiling was the curse of many a typewriter. It congeals to a sticky mess over the decades. The flat-ended applicator bodkin is meant to administer the smallest of drops. Looks like a mini-dipstick.
Length: 90mm

Saturday 5 March 2011

Naming the parts

© 1919 Underwood Typewriter Company Inc, NY

Double page spread in the back of my user manual for an Underwood three-bank portable.

Click image to supersize.