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Remington Portable with new keytops
Probably sometime during the fifties, the keyboard of this little Remington Portable #2 typewriter was altered. Some of the regular assortment of fractions of the British keyboard were replaced by...
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Former typewriter factory (not so old)
Two weeks ago when visiting a company in the B-Amsterdam building, was told this was actually a former IBM typewriter plant. Hadn't known that. From some quick online research; the complex housed the...
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Remington Portable with new platen rubber
After making the keyboard look nicer, the next item was an attempt to make the quality of typing better. The machine was already quite usable, yet the platen was rock hard (noisy!) and was actually...
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HMV S.B. No.4 N.G.
When the opportunity came along to get a boxed spare soundbox for the HMV 101, jumped at it and got this 'new' boxed No. 4 soundbox.The box has been opened of course, the soundbox also likely has been...
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History
In a small stack of records came this Columbia advertising sleeve:Printed in England in 1939 as promotion material for the 1940 summer olympics that had just been moved from the originally planned...
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Felt-pad with anti-slip
From a thick sheet of synthetic felt, had glued two layers together to make a typewriter pad. The pad did do something for the amount of reverberation of the table, but the felt also was very smooth....
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Classical album
A while back I managed to get a couple of classical albums. These are proper, hardcover albums with gold lettering and tied with a ribbon. (Now that is worlds away in experience from the average...
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When you need a ruler
For those times when you don't have a ruler and do have a typewriter handy...(From the Popular Mechanics, December '35 issue)(It could happen.)
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Carefully check the case
When doing the first cleaning of a newly arrived case, two small parts turned out to be wedged under a lifted corner of the leatherette of the bottom of the case.A small (~5mm long) screw-rod and a...
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Remington Portable with new feet
Carrying on the steady tinkering with the Remington Portable #2 typewriter, on to the machine's rubber feet. After nearly 90 years, the machine's feet that are part of the cushioned fixing to the case...
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A machine's potential (and Remington Portable linefeed improvement)
When using older machines, you form an opinion on how they perform. (And judging from this post over at The Typewriter Revolution, opinions are indeed formed :-) All types indeed must have their...
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Power of Brasso
Started cleaning of a newly arrived small black case. The clasps had a brown hue and the rest of the fittings were a dull grey. Amazing how the power of Brasso can bring it back - must have been very...
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Before and after pictures (polish and India ink)
Having tinkered a fair bit with the Remington Portable #2 typewriter, had a look at the one image of the original online listing that I saved. On the left 'before' picture of the seller's listing, the...
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Summer break
Something different; came across this article on how to build a small monoplane.(from the March '28 issue of Boy's Life)Curious and it seemed simple, so with some cardboard and a bit of wood something...
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One Summer
One summer: America, 1927. That's when this Remington Portable typewriter was assembled in Ilion, NY. It was made for export with a Portuguese (?) language keyboard and somehow it made its way to...
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Rough emery paper
Hard platens are a long existing issue with typewriters, with solutions being sought.(From the May '35 issue of Popular Science Monthly)After all these decades, it may of course not merely be the...
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Remington Portable bodywork
First step towards a repaint; get all the parts to be painted off the machine. It really helps that this is not the first Remington Portable #2 typewriter I've tried to take apart. It means that by now...
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The final crash of civilization and Mozart
"It is natural enough that when the final crash of our civilization is being constantly and confidently predicted on all hands as imminent, or already begun, people who have a regard for the arts...
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