Wednesday 11 September 2013

Aerodynamics


Not so Spruce Goose going cheep!

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  1. The juxtaposition of those two photos is hilarious!

    Just looking at that typewriter, I would think it would tip over when the carriage is at one extreme end or the other. Is it stable when at either edge?

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    1. Who knows? Probably, it is a German machine after all. They probably engineered a counterbalance system to incrementally re-align the centre of balance as the carriage moves along. Or lead weights slung below.

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  2. Holy wingspan!

    And it's yours for just 99p.

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    1. 99p plus a tankful of petrol. It is a long way to Bridlington from here.

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  3. Wow, and Adler with a larger wingspan than the 18" one I had! I can say that the carriage stabilizer bars worked pretty well on mine, but returning a monster carriage like that is a pain. The carriage assembly weighs a *lot* and tends to bounce off the left margin on returning. I couldn't get used to it despite the machine being quite nice in all other respects.

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  4. Not to mention having to reach 3 feet to your left to grab the linespace lever when you're done with a line! :D

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  5. The Spruce Goose caught my eye, but that extreeeemly long carriage! I've never seen one that long.

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  6. You mention cost of petrol, but you missed crane hire. You're gonna need some serious hardware to pick this guy up.

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  7. Is that thing for typing billboards or something? At first glance, I thought a projection screen had fallen onto a typewriter.

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  8. Of all the crazy looking typewriters, that one is surely up there!

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  9. Whoa... you'll need three people to operate that!

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  10. Can you imagine how much it would cost to have that platen recovered? ;-)

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  11. That reminds me of a machine I saw in an army surplus shop years ago — two typewriters bolted together side by side, sharing one huge carriage like this. One keyboard was in Latin and the other in Greek.

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