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Badge engineering
Spotted in a local thrift-shop / recycling centre - two bulky beige office typewriters. The were on the same shelf separated by another beige machine. They probably spent their working-life in the same...
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The lock of a typewriter carrying case
Specifically; the mangled lock of the case for a 1930s Erika M typewriter. This is a relatively heavy, expensive typewriter, so had a fairly solid case with a lock. The lock of this machine's case had...
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Synela brand S.I.M. portable typewriter
A Synela portable typewriter in glossy black.This is yet another name variant of the S.I.M. portable typewriter, made in Italy. As is extensively documented on multiplewebpages, the Societâ Industriale...
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The Synela brand, a Dutch typewriter made in Italy for Spain
The Synela portable typewriter is clearly a S.I.M. machine, one of the rarer name-variants. Online mentions of Synela typewriters are few. In ETCetera number 79 is noted that in HBw-Aktuell of May 2007...
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Typewriter safari - a manual (was that a Royal?), an electric and an electronic
Spotted on a thrift-store safari this morning - a Roytype typewriter. It is in a display cabinet behind glass in their office, not for sale. One of the items kept in their own collection :)The Roytype...
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A well-oiled segment and keeping track of where all the pull-rods go
The typebars of the Synela portable typewriter were very dirty. The slots in the segment also looked filled with dirt. To thoroughly clean these and make everything move smoothly again, the typebars...
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Monroe L 160-X; a very compact, very quiet calculator
This picture from a 1941 printing of a Monroe brochure shows the L 160-X calculator's small size - it even came with its own carrying case.(Source: rechnerlexikon.de)This specimen lost its carrying...
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Carriage of the Synela - continuing the S.I.M. typewriter repair
The next step in reviving this machine was tackling the carriage. Having taken it off the machine, it was stripped down to its bare frame with only the feed-rollers left in place.Noticed when taking it...
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Typewriters on display and a very large Mercedes
Seen last weekend; several display cabinets with typewriters in a local combination-museum.In between the cabinets a table with a group of typewriters (Brother) to experience actual typing. And indeed...
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Bycatch - Ericsson model BHM 1001
An unexpected bycatch when going to pick up a typewriter. (After the debacle of the ludicrous buffering of the Synela, pick-up whenever possible.) The pick-up turned out to be a vintage / thrift-store...
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Something different - a Multiplex!
It was not too far away, so a quick trip to pick it up and no shipping-risk for something like this. This was the main object of the trip that also yielded that telephone - another typewriter! This one...
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Typewriters and cameras collectors museum
A couple of days after picking-up a Hammond Multiplex typewriter, finally got round to visiting the local little typewriter museum. Had been planning to go for years, but now finally got the push to do...
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Assembled type
Modifying the character-set on a typewriter was generally done by swapping out one type-slug with another - this one however got composite, modified type-slugs.The uppercase symbols on the 3 and 4 were...
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Replacing missing parts - continuing the S.I.M. typewriter repair
Apart from being very dirty, over-oiled and simply broken, the Synela portable typewriter also missed a few parts. These were re-created, or at least replacements good enough to make the function work...
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Triumph of the XX century - eclipses every calculating machine!
Bold claims.The general calculator is: An aid for the entirety of calculus!Eclipses any calculator!A triumph of the 20th century!One look one answer!This is a Dutch printing of "The Complete...
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A little 'B-key' or Burroughs case-key
This is something every owner of an older Burroughs calculator or adding machine will want.The Burroughs company did not want users to poke around the internals of their adding machines. To discourage...
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Hammond - starting with the base plate
The baseplate of a Hammond Multiplex typewriter is actually part of the machine - it does not work without the clearances and spacing of the baseplate. As seems to be very common for Multiplex...
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Hammond - Cleaning the machine plus first fixes
Next to the baseplate, there was the machine itself - extremely dirty, a bronze-brown all-over. Fortunately the brown hue all-over the mechanism was a century's worth of dirt, not rust. Nevertheless it...
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Spotting a store-brand typewriter (and buying something completely different)
There hadn't been any typewriters at the local thrift-stores for a while - this time round there actually was one machine. As is now usual it was beige affair, but did look a bit more interesting than...
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Looking it up in the catalogue (E.O. Richter compass sets)
Another thing of the information age - researching an item picked up from a thrift-store. In this case two small boxes with drawing tools, marked "E.O. Richter".In the picture above they've already...
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