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Saturday, May 20, 2017

cleaner and coming to life


See how nicely those have been preserved?  only the two on the right end show much grime. Action is still a bit stiff but with some oil drops here and there and just typing on it, that is improving.

SN is 1A-1918923-12.  it looks very similar to the 1941 gallery, but presumably they didn't change much during the war.  I'm surprised there are SN's for the war years at all, frankly, but I guess donations didn't cover every need.
I just need to get a new ribbon in here and use it some more.


In other news, I was outbid on an Olivetti Lettera 36 electric portable.  I only tried for it because of the floating keyboard as seen on the Praxis 48.

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

New acquisition


I'm not just selling off, I'm adding a few for actual use.  This is one that was just below the sg1 on my list, and harder to find in my price range.






Thursday, May 11, 2017

what the heck...?

I just ran across this on shop goodwill

Here's a screen cap for when the page goes away:



Apparently it went for $199 in 2016 and is now out of stock.  It seems to have come from/been connected with this site and there appear to be a number of posts complaining about the quality of the machine (jams and alignment mostly).

Huh.  What do you think?


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