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- Lettera 22
- royal
- hodgepodge
- Hard hearted
- underwood leader
- bin survey
- disjointed typecast
- Saturday, continued
- Typeface on the Navy Mill
- Underwood Champion
- Script Frenzy? I guess that name is taken
- left on the shelf
- typewriters in the movies
- another script
- Finally. the first one I wanted is in my clutches
- Underwood 150
- Did NOT buy this one
- 1956 SX-150
- Rescued: Olivetti Praxis 48
- The reveal
- another score
- not so many stickers
- Theme of the week - typewriter service firms
- another busy weekend
- too good not to share
- ROBOT WEEK!
- Can't win 'em all
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Man. I need to visit this magical place "The Bins". How does one get there? Is magical pixie dust involved?
ReplyDeleteGreat find.
I'll bet the "seriously stuck" Clipper had WD-40 applied to it. That's very symptomatic. The good news is that it's a reversible problem. I bought myself a bottle of isopropyl alcohol from the pharmacy and a pack of cotton balls, and swabbed every surface of the SM3 that I found that had been WD-40'd into immobility. The alcohol dissolves away the gunk (keep it off the rubber parts) and evaporates quickly (do it outside if you can!)
ReplyDeleteIn more serious cases, you can use lighter fluid -- naptha -- but I always get nervous about rags spontaneously combusting when I use that stuff.
For me, seeing the picture of that Underwood in the bin was a combination of "OUCH!" and "Hey, WOW!"
ReplyDeleteThose bins are mysteriously full of treasures. I wish we had bins here. The lack of them is painful! D:
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