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Keyboard repair (and new labels) for the Standard Folding typewriter
After almost 115 years, the keyboard of this little Standard Folding was in a bad state. Most keys had their label and keyring replaced, probably some time in the 1930s or 40s. The replacement rings...
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Mounting keyboard and typebars and dulling aluminum for the Standard Folding...
In preparation for mounting the keyboard 'tapestry' back into the frame, the linkages were sorted on length. They are not numbered, so were kept in sets of 14 for left and right sides of the machine to...
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Starting on the top-assemby and broken worm of the Standard Folding typewriter
Continuing with the top assembly of the Standard Folding typewriter; the carriage was taken off (is was barely hanging on anyways, with only one bracket left). Then first the carriage base-assembly...
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Carriage on the Standard Folding typewriter
Moving on to the carriage, the front support studs first needed aligning. These three studs are set-screws that were adjusted in the factory and then fixed in their correct position by 'pinning' then...
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Blowing out dust - period style
Over decades of neglect, an old typewriter or calculator will collect a lot of dust. Even inside a machine's housing, there often is a surprising amount of dust and debris in the mechanism. To clean...
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First words from the Standard Folding Typewriter
 After probably at least half a century, the little Standard Folding Typewriter typed!Well, sort of; it still needs adjusting and it will not be a truly daily-usable typewriter ever again. But it's...
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Awkward adding machine repairs, a Dalton that's not a Dalton
As an entertaining puzzle. Originally this blocked-wreck was bought to be a source of American-size screws and some spare parts, but was also tempting to see what can be learned from it and what could...
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Gebruiksaanwijzing voor de Mignon-schrijfmachine (Oskar Markx)
User-instructions for the Mignon-typewriter, from the exclusive importer for The Netherlands; 'AEG-Typewriter Importing', Oskar Markx, Amsterdam. A very informative post about him is at the...
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Imported from St. Petersburg to Rotterdam, an Original-Odhner arithmometer...
Imported from St. Petersburg, Russia to Rotterdam, Holland around 1908 by the J.A. Ruys trading company,The Ruys trading company was the continuation of the Voorhoeve trading company, renamed in 1904...
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Front panel lettering of the Standard Folding Typewriter
The very distinctive 'Standard Folding Typewriter' lettering on the aluminum front-panel is now also applied to the restored machine. At first it was a bit faded and not quite the result that was aimed...
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Why do people keep wrecking these boxes?
Why is it, when a drawing-set case is in a thrift-store, the latch of the box is always destroyed?Probably because nobody remembers these cases. I.e. that these have a little latch at the front-right...
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Layers of history - 'excavating' a crusty Comptometer model F
A not-expensive local pick-up - it didn't look so bad in the pictures (dark, bad lighting). When seeing it at pick-up I did consider leaving it - it was not only rather dirty, but extremely rusty...
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Octagonal complement-key (for the Burroughs Class 5 machine)
A fancy shaped octagonal keytop without any text, a blank key.That is the CAD-model for the top-left key of a Burroughs Class 5Â Calculator. As is well-described elsewhere on the internet, this machine...
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With their catalogue picture (calipers were expensive)
Browsing, noticed that both my calipers are shown on this same page of a 1950s workshop tool-catalogue. The illustrations show pretty much the exact, same instruments.This catalogue also showed that...
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C-key for the Remington Portable adding machine
The Remington Portable adding machine of the 1930s has a C-key protruding from the front. This C-key has a pointer to indicate the position of the next digit, pushing it to the right allows clearing an...
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Checking the oil-level in an adding listing machine
An old Remington Portable adding listing machine (or Monarch, Torpedo or Dalton) may actually need its oil level checked. Like most mechanical lever-operated adding machines, the Portable has a...
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New typeshuttles for the Hammond typewriter - iterations
The current state of the (slow, intermittent) effort to be able to use the Hammond Multiplex with new typeshuttles; two new, improvised shuttles on the machine:Last year, when ordering 3D printed parts...
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Oiling the level too
After topping-up the oil level in an adding machine, also added oil to the spirit level :)At 2.50 a relatively expensive thrift-store find, but it looked intact and had a brass "JNij" medallion; so...
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Remington Portable adding machine on its feet again
The rubber feet of 1930s Remington Portable adding machines are nearly always 'gone'. That is - they will be present, but invariably are hardened and/or completely squashed. As in this wreck-machine...
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