myoldtypewriter

I’m very frugal, but I savor the little thrill I get from splurging on a deliciously awful junker typewriter.

Cleaning up a dirty typewriter is so satisfying.

A local enthusiast’s new acquisition, a battered 197x Smith-Corona Corsair Deluxe came to me for a clean-up.

Parts in a Box Syndrome is a well-known typewriter affliction caused by a typewriter owner’s fever of initial excitement, a flurry of dismantling, progressive confusion, and eventual forgetfulness.

The hobby of typewriter repair is generally low stress, low stakes, low danger, but every once in a while, I go a little cowboy, a little Evel Knievel and push things past comfort.

I recently worked on a 1963 Olympia SM7, one with an affliction common in Olympias of this vintage: gummed-up mechanics due to sticky blobs of orange-ish brown goo.

I belong to a small group of local enthusiasts who like to tinker with typewriters, and we get together occasionally to share know-how and tools.

I have great affection for old Underwood standards.

Every once in a while, I stumble across a type of typewriter that I haven’t met before in person.

I love a freebie.