W/NW Show Us Your Manual Typewriters

[Robert Lai]

JoeV I love your collection. Do you service these yourself?

 

[sepiareverb]

Great thread. I did a photographic series called Olympia Deconstructed, with the parts from an Olympia typewriter. When I get back home I will post a few.

 

[nikon_sam]

I bought this from the original owner...he said he used it while at University...he was maybe in his seventies or eighties...it's all original except for the ribbon, has the manual and brush.

 

[Peter de Waal]

Robert,

sorry no oscilloscope, but my Kyoristu EF-500A Multi Shutter Tester. Nice unit, it has three-position (leading, centre, trailing) analysis of curtain speeds, does horizontal and vertical shutters, etc. Still getting my head around it.

I have fond memories of the IBM Selectric too. I can remember my then girlfriend's office back in the early 1980's and the highly skilled typists who worked there. Their fingers were a blur over the keys and out came neat justified copy, not one mistake. Amazing.

I saw this green Selectric at the recycling unit attached to our local dump a few weeks ago and picked it up for $10.00. Seemed a shame to leave it there. This one even has provision for TTY terminal output, just in case I also come across an IBM Series 360 mainframe in the trash.

JoeV, I'm envious...

 

[dmr]

I love your phone! LOL, many kids nowadays don't know what dial tone sounds like. 🙂

 

[David Hughes]

DSCF4845a by Joe Van Cleave, on Flickr

Late-model Hermes 3000 chassis, mounted to oak base; what I call the Nekkid-Writer.

And they made cameras too...

Regards, David

 

[JoeV]

JoeV I love your collection. Do you service these yourself?

Thanks, Robert. Some of these, like the Corona 4 and Underwood Universal, were professionally serviced, but most I've tinkered with myself. Mostly they need cleaning, degreasing and re-lubrication.

 

[Peter de Waal]

thanks dmr. Our 7 year-old daughter's friends love using "the cool old phone" when they are around for playdates. Takes them a few attempts to get use to dialing, the variable distance of the rotary motion throws them at first. I would say about half of the families we know don't even have a landline any more...

sorry to hijack a typewriter thread, but it's all comms surely?

 

[David Hughes]

Hi,

I think the best thing is that you can type in black and underline in red or do rows of soldiers with rifles, try that with a tablet...

Regards, David

 

[Dralowid]

Typewriters can have patina too!

DSC02093 by dralowid, on Flickr

Long carriage Oliver in 'museum quality' condition or so the nice man on Ebay said...

 

[maggieo]

Typewriters can have patina too!

DSC02093 by dralowid, on Flickr

Long carriage Oliver in 'museum quality' condition or so the nice man on Ebay said...

I had one of those, in excellent condition! I sold it to buy an Imperial buttload of Kodachorme, back in the 80s.

 

[Phil_F_NM]

Hermes 3000 at Sandia Foothills by Joe Van Cleave, on Flickr

An over-processed Hipstamatic shot of a late-model Hermes 3000 (same as the Nekkid-Writer, shown above).

JoeV, are you out on the west mesa, just south of I-40?

Phil Forrest

 

[Sid836]

And they made cameras too...

Regards, David

It has some dose of cyberpunk on it 🙂

 

[PhotoMat]

P1080300a by Joe Van Cleave, on Flickr

Underwood Universal, circa 1936

Nice shot, Joe. However, I must admit that the first thing that I checked was to see if the typed page read "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." 😉

 

[JoeV]

JoeV, are you out on the west mesa, just south of I-40?

Phil Forrest

This was taken at the soccer field park on Eubank, north of Paseo del Norte. Just to the east is the hang glider landing zone.

 

[JoeV]

Nice shot, Joe. However, I must admit that the first thing that I checked was to see if the typed page read "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." 😉

The piece I was working on was a Hunter S. Thompson-styled visit to the balloon fiesta.

 

[Robert Lai]

This thread is very bad for my GAS. Have you priced some restored typewriters lately? Leica M pricing!

In the LTM Leica price range is that Olympia SM9 of JoeV. Yummyyyyyyy.

I really love the look of those ones from the 1920s with the glass panels on the side so that you can see the interior working as you type. So fascinating. I'm trying to tell myself that my neighbors in my apartment are going to complain if I start playing with a typewriter.

 

[Steve M.]

Well, if the president said it was true, then it must be. LOL!