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urgent project for ourspecies.
some lovely poetry in this...
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This world is massively unequal andvoices for human unity are often drowned. But now at last we havemeans of communication adequate to expressing universal ideas.
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umbrella concept of ‘the human economy’ whichrefers to an emphasis both on what people do for themselves andon the need to find ways forward that must involve all of humanitysomehow.
relation to projects like Donut Economics?
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We have just been through a prolonged social experiment in whichmarkets and money were left to find their own way around theworld without much political interference. This experiment has beencalled ‘neoliberalism’, at one time ‘the Washington consensus’.
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Making Custom Typewriter Rubber Stamps<br /> by Sam on Neo-Renaissance<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T14:12:54
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The Second Brain Scam<br /> by [[Corey Carvalho]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T13:44:26
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How the Trump administration is dramatically reshaping education in America<br /> by [[John Yang]] of PBS at PBS News Weekend accessed on 2025-10-22T12:01:15
Interview with Jennifer Smith Richards of ProPublica
Anti-DEI, Anti-CRT bills
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The magical source behind your favorite pastrami sandwiches and chili dogs<br /> by [[By Josh Heller]] for LAist<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T11:56:41
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Interesting UI for IndieWeb Challenges or events like 100 Days (https://indieweb.org/100_days).
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Terry Gross reading a book has rendered it useless for others to read.
Dog earing of top corner for interesting sections or questions she may have for the author.
Dog earing bottom corner as an indicator of remembering facts for the intro or for sentences she wants to quote.
Uses front of book for connecting themes and focus, so she won't forget it.
Introductions/prologues for quick overviews of what the book is about and why they wrote it.
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Terry Gross reads slowly to start and speeds up as she continues. She annotates and dog-ears as she reads and then makes notes and questions after she's done.
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the heroine of Muriel Spark’s first novel, “The Comforters” (1957). This woman, Caroline, a literary critic,
typewriter plays a central role in the story
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And, because what we write on it is so effortlessly and undetectably erasable, the final text buries the evidence of our struggle, asserting that what we said was what we thought all along.
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A page produced on a manual typewriter was like a record of the torture of thought.
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Which brings us to the white page. Mallarmé spoke of the uncertainty with which we face a clean sheet of paper and try, in vain, to record our thoughts on it with some precision.
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Wershler-Henry does not confine himself to human users of the typewriter. He also tells us about monkeys, as in the hypothetical question “If you put a bunch of monkeys in front of typewriters, how long would it take them to compose the works of Shakespeare?” This question originated as part of the theory of probability, and it has been tested. According to Wershler-Henry, the world record for Shakespeare-reinvention belongs to the virtual monkeys supervised by Dan Oliver, of Scottsdale, Arizona. On August 4, 2004, after the group had worked for 42,162,500,000 billion billion monkey years, one of Oliver’s monkeys typed, “VALENTINE. Cease toIdor:eFLP0FRjWK78aXzVOwm)-‘;8.t . . .,” the first nineteen characters of which can be found in “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.” Runner-up teams have produced eighteen characters from “Timon of Athens,” seventeen from “Troilus and Cressida,” and sixteen from “Richard II.” Did these monkeys get federal funding?
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First, he says, in the age of the typewriter—the twentieth century, more or less—there was a mythology that what was typewritten was true, that the machine somehow caused writers to bare their souls. This is a central idea of “The Iron Whim,”
via Darren Herschler-Henry's book
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As for unsexing them, the effect was the opposite. Wershler-Henry documents the entry of the “typewriter girl” into the iconography of early-twentieth-century pornography.
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By 1910, according to the Census Bureau, eighty-one per cent of professional typists were female.
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Woody Allen reported in a documentary that he'd lost his cover for his Olympia SM3, but it appears to be on his desk in this undated photo.
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Apologies for the delay in reply. I've read extensively about card indexes for productivity and the variety of systems and uses over the past couple of centuries.
Given your context, I'd recommend reading one book which describes an index card system in full, walks you through it card by card, helps you make it, and describes how it's used. It's thorough, but fully adaptable to your particular needs. Best, it's written by two women in the early 1980s and though there wasn't much in the culture about ADHD at the time, I suspect that one or both of these women were coping with nearby neurodivergent issues (not to mention the eternal brain fog forced by pregnancy, lack of sleep, and early childhood woes.)
Young, Pam, and Peggy Jones. 1981. Sidetracked Home Executives: From Pigpen to Paradise. ed. Sydney Craft Rozen. New York: Warner Books. http://archive.org/details/sidetrackedhomee00youn (November 3, 2023).
If you need other perspectives, there are also areas with potential solutions like the Bullet Journal (notebooks), Getting Things Done (GTD), Hipster PDA, and a variety of others. Almost all of these were built on the ideas behind the early 1900s version of the Memindex, which I've written about here: https://boffosocko.com/2023/03/09/the-memindex-method-an-early-precursor-of-the-memex-hipster-pda-43-folders-gtd-basb-and-bullet-journal-systems/. They're all roughly the same in shape, practice, and philosophy, but the Young/Jones SHE version uses index cards, speaks directly to your use case, and suggests an approach for the ADHD set. Assuredly a nearby library can get you a copy, you can find them used, or read the linked online version which you can check out.
If you'd like to see portions of my personal system, I've written a bit about it along with lots of other resources at https://boffosocko.com/research/zettelkasten-commonplace-books-and-note-taking-collection/#Productivity
It's worked well for me for many years. The secret is to read the basics and then adapt the pieces of the system to suit your own needs and methods of working. For example, I love crossing things off of lists, which my index cards didn't really encourage because you do them and move them to the next day/week/month/year forward, but I bought a rotating date stamp that allows me to stamp each card with the date as "done" before re-filing it. For me, the haptic feedback of the "thonk" of the stamp is even better than crossing things off and gives me a sense of accomplishment when I see them and finish filling an entire card up with dates.
A decade on, the best part of my collection are the separate index cards I had laying around while using the rest of the system and on which I wrote down quotes from my daughter, new words as she learned them, words she made up, goofy jokes, etc.
Enough for now, the card for the dog groomer came up yesterday, so I'm off to take our dog to the appointment I made when I saw it. Thonk! Refiled for next month's reminder.
Good luck.
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Does it feel like the typebars are catching in the guide, or something binding deeper in the machine? If it's the guide (this is going to sound crazy), grasp the top of the typebar and sort of wiggle it side to side in the segment. Not overly forceful as you don't want to bend the segment slots, but just enough to allow the spring steel to realign. Test, and adjust if needed. It sounds kind of unhinged, but this is the fix for most American made machines that have bars getting stuck in the guide. I've done this with Royals, Coronas, and Underwoods in front of clients before and they look at me like I'm an idiot wizard. Ha If the top of the bar is seriously bent this won't work and you'll need a repair person to use some side alignment pliers, but if the bar is just tweaked it usually works very well with a bit of practice. My unsubstantiated belief of why this occurs is US companies using the same grade(if not the same company) of steel in their bars that tend to be a little softer than their European competitors. *You DON'T want to try this with an Olympia or other German made machines. 😅 If it's coming from deeper in the machine, check the linkages to make sure they're not tweaked and binding against each other. Hope this helps!
advice via Nashville Typewriter, a repair person. <br /> https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o4qxvn/chasing_problems_stuck_keys/
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(Buying a Typewriter<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]] and [[Bob Marshall]] of Typewriter Muse on YouTube<br /> accessed on 2025-10-16T09:27:44
Bob Marshall prefers "extreme collector" to "hoarder" when it comes to typewriter collecting.
In July 20222, Bob Marshall was charging $60/hour for typewriter service.
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Carbon Paper Duplication<br /> by [[OrcaType]] on YouTube<br /> accessed on 2025-10-16T09:17:15
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Benefits of wax carbon paper over film-based carbon paper:<br /> - darker printing<br /> - better shelf-life
Benefits of film-based carbon paper over wax carbon paper:<br /> - crumple resistant<br /> - smudge resistant<br /> - sharper text over generations
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Montgomery Ward Typewriters 1941-1985, Signatures, Forwards and Escorts and why certain rare Royal Typefaces can be found on Brother Typewriters!<br /> by [[Ted Munk]] on 2022-011-25<br /> accessed on 2025-10-15T19:49:10
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Christmas 1959 is when Montgomery Wards gets their own “store brand” of a sort. They start offering the “Royal Heritage”, a model made specifically for MW by Royal. This is the beginning of the famous “blue badge” Royals with the sky-blue case interiors. If you see one of these, it was sold by Montgomery Wards.
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According to Ted Munk, "Spencerian Script only occurs on Montgomery Ward Brothers and not on any other Brother-manufactured machines"
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Reply to u/EnvronmentalAngle at https://reddit.com/r/NoteTaking/comments/1o4zfjk/i_never_learned_how_to_take_notes_on_books_does/
I never learned how to take notes on books. Does anyone know of any good guides? Most I find are geared towards college students.
Given the things you're reading and what your ultimate goals on remembering and thinking may be, I'll make a few recommendations I think will be highly useful:
Start with Adler's short article on How to Mark a Book: - Adler, Mortimer J. 1940. “How to Mark a Book.” Saturday Review of Literature 6: 250–52. https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1940jul06-00011/ (January 11, 2023). (Alternate .pdf copy: https://docdrop.org/download_annotation_doc/Adler---1940---How-to-Mark-a-Book-fehef.pdf)
Then move on to his more thorough work with Van Doren about how to read. It's relatively short and easy to read, particularly the beginning which might seem almost too easy and straightforward. Don't be lulled into a false sense of security though, as the final sections have some incredibly interesting and subtle ideas that many people, including the college educated broadly ignore. - Adler, Mortimer J., and Charles Van Doren. 2011. How to Read a Book: The Classical Guide to Intelligent Reading. Revised and Updated edition. Touchstone.
While you're reading it, you might appreciate a television version they made to support their ideas in the mid-1970s. In it they talk about some of the very books you're trying to tackle and how you might get more out of them. (The titles on the YouTube page are in Portuguese, but the show itself is in the original English.) - How to Read a Book. 1975. Los Angeles: KCET Los Angeles. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPajsb520dyzNw9mHsZnrzi5w9N_amS7E (September 30, 2023).
While you're doing this, perhaps take a brief glimpse at how Adler (and many of his friends and colleagues) were taking notes on index cards to tear apart great books to better understand what was in them. https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/2623/mortimer-j-adlers-syntopicon-a-topically-arranged-collaborative-slipbox
Whether you take your notes in your books (as Adler did) or write them on index cards or in a notebook or commonplace book as others have, you'll be well on your way to both better understanding and longer term remembering.
Good luck in your reading!'
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reply to u/EdmundDante718 at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o5x527/missing_carriage_releases_on_scm/
It's incredibly common for these 6 series Smith-Coronas to have broken plastic carriage release levers (a major design flaw). You can call around to shops with parts machines for original replacements. https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html
There are numerous YouTube repair videos and ideas including these few I've bookmarked before, though there are surely others: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNcQvfUk23s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb9VlrKcXcM
I've not seen anyone 3-D print a version (yet), but designs for one might be floating around out there.
I've also seen people jury rig all sorts of plastic replacements which is an option as well.
In practice, you generally only need one working one for your dominant hand.
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Summary
- Marking a book helps in increasing "the most efficient kind of reading."
- The marked (pun intended) difference between physical vs. intellectual ownership of books
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- Active reading (annotating and staying awake) and engaging deeply, arguing with, and questioning the author is the point of reading.
- A historical record of your active reading allows you to continue the conversation you've had with the author and yourself. (p12)
- Adler's method of reading and marking:
- Underlining major points of importance
- Vertical lines for emphasis
- Marginal marks (stars, asterisks, etc.) (10-20 per book) to indicate the most important statements in conjunction with dogearing these pages for making it easier to find them subsequently
- Numbers in the margin to sequence arguments
- Page numbers in the margin for linking ideas across pages, ostensibly for juxtaposing them later
- Circling key words or phrases (unsaid here, but this is helpful for indexing as well as helping one to come to terms with the author)
- Marginal writing for synopsis of sections as well as questions raised by the text; use of endpapers for a personal index of ideas presented chronologically throughout the book
- Objections to marking books:
- Using scratch pad (or index cards, which he doesn't mention specifically, but which could be implied) so as not to destroy a precious or rare physical copy (this is a repetition from earlier in the article)
- Marking slows you down. This is part of the point! Slowing down makes you engage with the author and get more out of the text.
- You can't loan books because they contain your important thoughts which you don't want to give away (and lose the historical record of your thinking). Solution: Simply require friends to buy their own copy.
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How about using ascratch pad slightly smaller than thepage-size of the book—so that theedges of the sheets won't protrude?Make your index, outlines, and evenyour notes on the pad, and then insertthese sheets permanently inside thefront and back covers of the book.
This practice is not too dissimilar to that used by zettelkasten practitioners (including Niklas Luhmann) who broadly used his bibliographic cards this way.
By separating his index and ideas from the book and putting them into a physical index, it makes them easier to juxtapose with other ideas over time rather than having them anchored directly to the book itself. For academics and researchers, this will tend to help save time from having to constantly retrieve these portions from individual books.
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The front end-papers are, to me, themost important. Some people reservethem for a fancy bookplate. I reservethem for fancy thinking.
This poke at "fancy" bookplates is a rhetorical call back to those who would attempt to weakly show only physical and not intellectual ownership by "pasting his bookplate inside the cover."
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The front end-papers are, to me, themost important. Some people reservethem for a fancy bookplate. I reservethem for fancy thinking.
Was "fancy thinking" used in a pejorative sense prior to this article? Are subsequent uses of it poking fun of the parallelism (to fancy bookplates) which Adler sets up here?
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I use the end-pa-pers at the back of the book to makea personal index of the author's pointsin the order of their appearance
The making of a personal index is a first step in building a mesh of knowledge. In just a few years, Vannevar Bush will speak of "associative trails" a phrase he uses twice in "As We May Think" (The Atlantic, July 1945), but of potentially more import is his phrase "associative indexing" which lays way to either juxtaposing or linking two ideas (either similar or disjoint) together. It bears asking the question of of whether it's more valuable to index and juxtapose similar ideas or disjoint ideas which may more frequently lead to better, more useful, and more relevant and rich future ideas.
It affords an immediate step, however, to associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing. Bush, Vannevar. 1945. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic 176: 101–8. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ (October 22, 2022). #
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Adler creates a very specific and subtle definition of ownership as it applies to books.
It's not too dissimilar to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's idea of ownership or love of people. "Unique to me in all the world"
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There are two ways in which onecan own a book. The first is the prop-erty right you establish by paying forit, just as you pay for clothes and fur-niture. But this act of purchase is onlythe prelude to possession. Full owner-ship comes only when you have madeit a part of yourself, and the best wayto make yourself a part of it is bywriting in it.
Many have spoken of "books as wallpaper" or "intellectual furniture", but here Mortimer J. Adler goes beyond owning them solely as material culture, but turning them into intellectual and personal culture.
When they sit upon the shelf after being intellectually owned, they can serve as a mnemonic touchstone, which is a method of supercharging their value as lowly "decorative wallpaper", and instead making them living active, intellectual wallpaper.
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I contend, quite bluntly, that mark-ing up a book is not an act of mutila-tion but of love.
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It affords an immediate step, however, to associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.
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Cleaning Type Slugs Fast ! Removing Clogged Dirty Ink Typewriter Service How to Shine Those Faces by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
Duane cleans type slugs by draping the typewriter with cloths and then using a metal bristle brush and lacquer thinner. Small picks or an X-Acto knife can help to remove gunk from the interiors of the closed letters.
He also uses tape to cover up the red paint on the word "De Luxe" so that the lacquer thinner doesn't damage it.
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The slugs are the metal pieces at the ends of the assemblies that start at the tops of the keys and go through the key levers attach to the segment (the semi-circular metal comb-like part in the "basket") via the typebars. The slugs are the ones that have the backward characters on them and when they hit the ribbon cause the letters to be applied to the paper. Over time the small loops of the characters can get filled with dust, dirt, ink, and bits of ribbon and as a result the type on your page isn't as crisp and good looking as you'd like.
Here's a handful of videos with a variety of methods for cleaning one's slugs: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s8tE6P0YMQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgSAS45WGI0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKGipBLA5Eo
You'll notice that for the day-to-day cleaning that people are using kneadable erasers, silly putty, or products like Bergeon Rodico 6033-1 as cleaning compounds for pulling ink and dust out quickly.
There are some good basics and a great glossary in Hints for a Happy Typewriter: https://typewriterdatabase.com/1983-Hints4HappyTypewriter.index.manual
I've also collected some great mid-century short films on use and basic maintenance here: https://boffosocko.com/2025/06/06/typewriter-use-and-maintenance-for-beginning-to-intermediate-typists/
Other resources you might find interesting: https://boffosocko.com/research/typewriter-collection/
reply to u/DatLonerGirl at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o33p7n/when_was_the_last_time_you_cleaned_your_slugs/
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Hart, Keith, Jean-Louis Laville, and Antonio David Cattani, eds. 2010. The Human Economy: A Citizen’s Guide. 1st ed. Malden, MA; Cambridge, UK: Polity. https://amzn.to/4q7hwTi (October 11, 2025).
Annotations: urn:x-pdf:c0c4b707a9de803a95b50ebebe19c70c
Alternate annotation link: urn:x-pdf:c0c4b707a9de803a95b50ebebe19c70c
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Royal KMM FPE HH KH 10 T1 B64 Typewriter Ribbon Install Rewind Respool Replace by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]
The spools for the standard Royal typewriters (Ten, H, KH, KHM, KMM, KMG, RP, HH, FP, Empress, 440, 660, etc.) have a custom metal mechanism for their auto-reverse. The spools are known as the T1 (which is the same as General Ribbon part # T1-77B , T1-77BR, and Nu-Kote B64.) If winding on universal ribbon onto them, remove the eyelette which isn't needed and may interfere with the auto reverse.
The function of the mechanism is fairly similar to that of the Remington, but the mechanism is on the spool itself rather than on the spindle.
If necessary, Ribbons Unlimited carries these metal spools: https://www.ribbonsunlimited.com/6N064-Royal-Standard-Electric-Ribbon-64-p/6n064.htm
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Tools of the typewriter trade by [[Retrotype]]
Excellent overview of many of the basic tools for typewriter repair. Didn't have the strongest grasp of all the tools' specific names, but good enough for describing their general use cases.
Example of a typewriter toolset including a case made for telephone company repair, but which works with typewriters.
- Shore A durometer gauge 2:22
- nylon fishing/picture hanging wire spec to 25kg (for drawband replacement)
- thick waxed string/yarn for repairing fishing nets (for drawbands)
- nitrile gloves (to prevent staining, issues with mineral spirits, and other caustic chemicals)
- XPower pressure blower for blowing out dust/dirt and mineral spirits. (smaller than an air compressor)
- nail grooming set with tweezers, picks, etc. (not technically necessary, but sometimes useful)
- dental tools (for use as spring hooks)
- Renaissance micro-crystalline wax (non-corrosive, made for British Museum, good on marble, wood, leather, etc. Good on bare metal for treating previously rusted metal. (It's recommended to use an abrasive polish for improving the shine of glossy paint however)
- Pouch and set of precision screwdrivers (he only uses the flatheads though the set includes other) Prefer hollow ground tips which are squared off rather than wedges.
- Chapman bit set of screwdrivers (with hollow ground tips) He prefers these for hard to remove screws. Issue that it's a bit thicker at the tip.
- Liquid wrench penetrating oil for helping to loosen screws (he likes this better than WD-40)
- brash wire brushes
- steel wire brushes (uses less frequently as they're more abrasive)
- pouch of precision wrenches (imperial and metric) his are bladed, Moody tools wrenches (mfg.) prefer the thinnest tips
- microfiber cloths
- jig for soldering typeslugs on typearms
- pouch with various typewriter specific pliers:
- 3 prong pliers (total of 9 prongs) for making bends/forming typebars (especially making bends in the middle of bars rather than the end.;
- peening bend pliers;
- bending pliers for sideways bends esp. with thinner typebars;
- vertical adjustment pliers (with rollers) not good for making adjustments of 3mm or more;
- forming pliers with screws on the end to rotate heads for bending, peening and cutting;
- peening pliers (bending by metal displacement)
- Magnetized screwdrivers
- forceps
- screw grabber (active capture)
- spring hooks (push/pull)
- nylon brushes for dusting
- needle nose pliers
- t-bender with slotted head for forming metal
- small bottles for mineral spirits and sewing machine oil. They have small metal tips for precision application.
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✍️ Systems I Use: Commonplace Book Zettelkasten
Someone who indicates that they use both "commonplace book" and "zettelkasten" systems. I'm curious how they differentiate the two, particularly because they seem to both be done on index cards.
Sort of sounds like zettles are her own ideas vs. commonplace for the ideas of others.
At 4:40 she seems to use linear numbering on her zettels and not Luhmann-artig numbering.
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An Obsidian plugin that can pull quotes from digital files into specific notes.
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Smith-Corona Electra users:<br /> - Joyce Carol Oates - Electra 220<br /> - William Styron - Electra 210 - Robert Caro - Electra 210 (New York Times) - Allen Ginsberg - Electra - Truman Capote - Electra 110
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Standard Typewriter Ribbon Notes for the US:
Here's a handful of places: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-faq.html#q1 I've really liked ribbons from either Baco or Fine Line, but you can also get them from your local repair shop, who'll appreciate the business more than Amazon will, and it'll help keep them around for when you may need a full overhaul.
You'll want the Universal spools of 2" in diameter with 1/2" wide ribbon (in Nylon, Silk, or Cotton), but honestly, if you've got original metal spools on your machine, those usually work best, so spool your new ribbon from the cheap plastic spools onto your originals.
Reply to u/PatriotMike1 at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nya3bb/looking_for_ribbon_for_this_typewriter/
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Why bother with dozens of big standards in your office when you can have a portable or two that you can move and which are always in demand?
100% The Practical Magazine of Efficient Management, November 1916, Volume 7, No. 45, p49. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Management/hqj2SD6khL4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=corona&pg=RA4-PA49&printsec=frontcover
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"Use Work-Organizers" advertisement, Bookseller & Stationer and Office Equipment Journal, Toronto, October 1920, Vol XXXVI, No. 10, p70.
Photo of a work organizer for indexing/filing on both a desktop as well as within the desk drawer.
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Office Appliances, August 1916 p115.
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Remove the ribbon and compare what's happening bilaterally. Use the mirror symmetry of the two sides and the ribbon reverse functionality to puzzle out what's wrong. Is something stuck? Broken? Bent? Missing? Comparing the broken side to the working side should help to solve the puzzle.
Look closely at the mechanics of what's going on. Are the gears turning at all? Is there a pawl that holds the forward motion properly? Does something need to be bent back into place? Is there a missing spring perhaps?
Beyond this doing searches for ribbon advancement on YouTube (especially Phoenix Typewriter's channel) may unearth some illustrative help.
Some of the advice here may be helpful: https://typewriterdatabase.com/RD-Typewriter-Tips.index.manual
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Some of the letters are consistently struggling to print properly, like a, w, q, etc. I've cleaned the typebar section multiple times which seemed to help initially but it continues to be an issue, I'm not sure what could cause only certain letters to print incorrectly.
reply to u/peachaphrodite at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nwu77s/sears_scholar_specific_letters_are_faint/
Issue with light imprints on a, w, q, etc.
Are you a touch typist or a two finger hunt-and-peck typist?
Solely based on the letters, I'll guess there's nothing wrong with the machine and that you're a newer touch typist whose two weakest fingers on your non-dominant hand just need some exercise to get a better imprint. I'd guess the same happens to your z and x as well, but you use them less. Practice typing about your "qwaze axes and saws" a few times a day for a week to improve your finger strength and technique.
If you're a hunt-and-peck person, then your typebars may need some gentle forming/fine adjustment using some specialist tools to give better imprints. Those letters on the ends of the segment more often go out of alignment than others. If this is the case, try: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html
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If you want something super cheap, a Clarke Sweetone. If you want something that's more of an intermediate instrument, I'd get a O’Briain Improved, Freeman Tweaked, Dixon Trad or DX005, or Hoover PVC. Those are just recommendations from experience, there are a few threads on here that have lots of recommendations. https://www.reddit.com/r/tinwhistle/comments/1fq77yf/pinned_whistle_maker_list/ https://www.reddit.com/r/tinwhistle/comments/179avhc/a_request_for_a_pinned_thread_of_all_whistle/
Several people here recommend the Dixon DX005 (plastic) as a good mid-price starter whistle in the $50 range.
https://reddit.com/r/tinwhistle/comments/1nsape6/thin_whistle_for_learning/
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Wilhelmshaven: The Emperor's beloved city destroyed in the war<br /> by [[NDR.de]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-30T15:02:51
I found a video about Wilhelmshaven in 1965 in the vintage section of a German broadcast service. The video is all German. It was made in 1965 and shows how the city developed through the decades. It is 17 minutes long, and the time from 6:30 to 8:30 is dedicated to Olympia Typewriters. You'll see a breathtaking amount of SG1s, workers correcting the letter alignment, workers taking measures on machines, and workers assembling machines in a huge workshop with a deafening typewriter rattle going on. <br /> via r/typewriters u/andrebartels1977 at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nun0is/olympia_nerds/
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Since we are no longer inclined to eliminatefailures in the harsh way the Lacedemonians used to adopt inthe Taygetos mountain,
Is he pro or anti-eugenics here? esp. with respect to his time?
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In using the picture we usually forgetabout them, except in the quite general way that we know ouridea of a light-wave is not a haphazard invention of a crankbut is based on experiment.
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His paper was forgotten and was onlyrediscovered in 1900, simultaneously and independently, byCorrens (Berlin), de Vries (Amsterdam) and Tschermak(Vienna).
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The results he published as early as1866 in the Proceedings of the Naturforschender Verein in Brunn.
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A recessive allele influences the phenotype only when thegenotype is homozygous.
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de Vries, Hugo. Die Mutationstheorie. Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Entstehung von Arten im Pflanzenreich, Leipzig, Veit & Comp., 1901-03.
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In other words, he would have expected to produce byselection an increase of the average length of the awns.
compare with Galton:<br /> Galton, F. (1886). "Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 15: 246–263. doi:10.2307/2841583. JSTOR 2841583.
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that in the offspring even of thoroughly pure-bred stocks, avery small number of individuals, say two or three in tens ofthousands, turn up with small but 'jump-like' changes, theexpression 'jump-like' not meaning that the change is so veryconsiderable, but that there is a discontinuity inasmuch asthere are no intermediate forms between the unchanged andthe few changed. De Vries called that a mutation.
But about forty years ago the Dutchman de Vries discovered
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In calling the structure of the chromosome fibres a code-script
from where does he draw the idea "code-script"? Is it from the developing information theory of the time? Somewhere else?
There is definitely the idea of a code running in the sense of programming, which was likely not a common conceptualization at the time.
On p. 22 he uses the phrase "law-code" which is likely the closer meaning of code he's using and not the sense of genetic code as understood much later when DNA and the underlying protein coding sequences were unraveled.
Morse code may also be a tangential underlying meaning of his sense of "code" as something unknown but potentially revealable.
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The reason for this is, that what we call thought (I) is itselfan orderly thing, and (2) can only be applied to material, i.e.to perceptions or experiences, which have a certain degree oforderliness.
Jeremy.Olsen — 9/16/25, 8:21 AM Opening question for 9/16 - Regarding Schrödinger's description of thought on p.9 (Canto Classics edition):
"...what we call thought (1) is itself an orderly thing, and (2) can only be applied to material, i.e. to perceptions or experiences, which have a certain degree of orderliness."
My question is as follows: What exactly is the material of thought for Schrödinger, which he calls "perceptions or experiences"? What are examples of this material for him? What is excluded from this category?
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Whatdegree of permanence do we encounter in hereditaryproperties and what must we therefore attribute to thematerial structures which carry them?
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The course of events is appropriately called alternation ofgenerations.
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the fusion of two cells, or of their nuclei, in reproduction.
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Some time ago we were told in thenewspapers that in his African campaign General Mont-gomery made a point of having every single soldier of his armymeticulously informed of all his designs. If that is true (as itconceivably might be, considering the high intelligence andreliability of his troops) it provides an excellent analogy to ourcase, in which the corresponding fact certainly is literally true.
You have to love the analogy of General Montgomery to chromosomes here and the duplication of information.
Everyone knows the general direction they're moving, though the information in soldiers is different in form and function versus chromosomes which aren't conscious.
What happens when a soldier is captured and questioned though? How does that effect strategy and does it outweigh the effects of a commander dying and their next in command being able to quickly take over? or of the individual soldier presented by a difficulty, but able to make a decision because they know where the general might direct them for the outcome the general desired?
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Ontogenesis is the development of the individual, during its lifetime, as opposed tophylogenesis, the development of species within geological periods.
How might we apply ontogeny vs. phylogeny in the political sphere within @Lanier2013s framing Who Owns the Future or in the personbyte/firmbyte framing of @Hidalgo2015?
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What a great conceptualization of considering organisms in time and space... something we don't do now as well as we ought to almost 80+ years later
One might presume as a physicist he's taking advantage of Einstein's conceptualization of spacetime, but here within biology.
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I must begin with giving a brief summary of the situation inbiology, more especially in genetics - in other words, I haveto summarize the present state of knowledge in a subject ofwhich I am not a master. This cannot be helped and Iapologize, particularly to any biologist, for the dilettantecharacter of my summary.
While an apology to professionals, it also stands as an apology to the reasonably well-educated and non specialist decades later as well.
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Das Sein ist ewig; denn GesetzeBewahren die lebend'gen Schatze,Aus welchen sich das All geschmiickt. I GOETHE
Translation:
Being is eternal; for there are laws to conserve the treasures of life on which the Universe draws for beauty.
This reminds me of the equivalence relational quote by Eddington
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The laws of physics and physical chemistry areinaccurate within a probable relative error of the order of I Ivn,where n is the number of molecules that co-operate to bringabout that law - to produce its validity within such regions ofspace or time (or both) that matter, for some considerations orfor some particular experiment.
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You have to multiplyobservations, in order to eliminate the effect of the Brownianmovement of your instrument. This example is, I think,particularly illuminating in our present investigation. For ourorgans of sense, after all, are a kind of instrument. We can seehow useless they would be if they became too sensi tive.
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And why could all this not be fulfilled in the case of anorganism composed of a moderate number of atoms only andsensitive already to the impact of one or a few atoms only?
Is he getting at the idea of consciousness? An organism must have a "large enough" machinery to be considered conscious at some level? How many physical moving parts and what links between them?
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Why shouldan organ like our brain, with the sensorial system attached toit, of necessity consist of an enormous number of atoms, inorder that its physically changing state should be in close andintimate correspondence with a highly developed thought?
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Even if I should be right in this, I do not know whether myway of approach is really the best and simplest. But, in short,it was mine. The 'naive physicist' was myself. And I could notfind any better or clearer way towards the goal than my owncrooked one.
an attempt is better than nothing at all
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The rubber gromets/bushings of the Adler J3 are often an issue with their cases when they've aged.
Joe also compares this with the Olympia SM3 and an Optima Super typewriter (poorly designed)
John Lewis is closing his typewriter shop in Arizona soon.
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The Nakamima WPT-150 is manufactured by Mitsunami Asia(S)Pte Ltd. in Indonesia and is sold in other countries as the model AX-150, which may help in finding supplies, print wheels, etc. for it.
nadist.com has repair manuals and parts lists as well as specifications
They sell six different models of which the WPT-150 is the least expensive.
Joe is a little more cognizant of the typing delay time of the Brother and it's seemingly non-existent for the Nakajima.
JVC tested the words per minute speed for the Nakajima using polar opposite characters on the daisy wheel.
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With an eBook, however, you are not a first-class commercialcitizen. Instead, you have only purchased tenuous rights withinsomeone else’s company store
ebooks versus physical books
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Information is people in disguise, and people ought to bepaid for value they contribute that can be sent or stored on a digitalnetwork.
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Another problem with existing chunky levees is that they tend tohave zero-sum gotchas.
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The context is lost, and meaning is dependent on context.For instance, if you find a copy of a video with a politician intoningsome bizarre senseless snippet, you don’t know what the context was.Maybe the full version of the video would tell a different story. One ofthe reasons not to make copies is to avoid problems like that.
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This is what we mightcall the idea of the “mash-up” today, but it also was the firstappearance, so far as I can tell, of the realization that digital systemscould both gather and repackage media to enable new kinds ofcollaboration and new kinds of expression.
this sort of remixing of information was NOT new with this group
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The lexicon of the New Age, or self-actualization, movement reserved a special place for the wordAbundance. Abundance could mean two things. At the rational, technocratic, Confucian end of the spectrum,it might mean that people ought to take responsibility for their failures and successes, but they ought tobelieve that great success is possible. This sensibility sprouted the motivational speaker industry. Its tracesare preserved in reality television and popular song.
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As thefamiliar quote usually attributed to Supreme Court justice Louis D.Brandeis goes, “We can have democracy in this country, or we canhave great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’thave both.”*
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To my friends in the “open” Internet movement, I have to ask: Whatdid you think would happen? We in Silicon Valley underminedcopyright to make commerce become more about services instead ofcontent: more about our code instead of their files.
what is really going on here?
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The process is increasingly divorced from real-world events. Amessage is fine-tuned and tested. Feedback signals are fed intostatistics engines. Just as big data in business can function with lowerstandards of veracity than big data in science, so can big data inpolitics.
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Perhaps we should expect to see more elections that are eitherextremely close or extremely lopsided from here on out. If opposingSiren Servers are well run, they might achieve parity, while if one isbetter than the other, its advantage ought to be dramatic. It’s too earlyto say, since big data and politics haven’t mixed long enough togenerate much data as yet. It’s like climate change was for a long time—not enough data yet to really say—though it does look like we’reseeing this pattern.
are we seeing patterns? who/what are the big influencers?
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Democracies must be structured to resist winner-take-all politics ifthey are to endure. That principle applied in the network age leads toperiodic confrontations between competing mirror-image big datapolitical campaigns.
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There would only be the particles that make up things, in exactly the same positions they wouldotherwise occupy, but not the things. In other words, consciousness provides ontology for particles. If therewere no consciousness, the universe would be adequately described as being nothing but particles. Or, ifyou prefer a computational framework, only the bits would be left, but not the data structures. It would allmean nothing, because it wouldn’t be experienced
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In our digital revolution, we might depose an old sort ofdysfunctional center of power only to erect a new one that is equallydysfunctional. The reason is that online opposition to traditional powertends to promote new Siren Servers that in the long run are unlikely tobe any better.
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Belief in the specialness of people is a minority position in the tech world, and I would like that to change.The way we experience life—call it “consciousness”—doesn’t fit in a materialistic or informational worldview.Lately I prefer to call it “experience,” since the opposing philosophical team has colonized the termconsciousness. That term might be used these days to refer to the self-models that can be implementedinside a robot.
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While we have yet to see how Google’s book scanning will play out, amachine-centric vision of the project might encourage software that treats books as grist for the mill,decontextualized snippets in one big database, rather than separate expressions from individual writers. Inthis approach, the contents of books would be atomized into bits of information to be aggregated, and theauthors themselves, the feeling of their voices, their differing perspectives, would be lost. Needless to say,this approach would hide its tracks so that it would be hard to send a nanopayment to an author who hadbeen aggregated.
Alternately, where is the value in a slip box?
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The core ideal of the Internet is that one trusts people, and that given an opportunity, people will find theirway to be reasonably decent. I happily restate my loyalty to that ideal. It’s all we have.
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Siren Servers are not interchangeable. While they allshare certain traits (narcissism, hyperamplified risk aversion, andextreme information asymmetry), they also represent particular, morespecialized philosophies
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Individual Siren Servers can die and yet the Siren Server patternperseveres, and it is that pattern that is the real problem. Thesystematic decoupling of risk from reward in the rising informationeconomy is the problem, not any particular server.
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network effects tend to create a single Sirenic presence,a monopoly for that particular kind of data or pattern of use.
what general patterns do siren servers follow? are they all the same within some set of metrics?
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This is a key sign of a Siren Server. The lowly non-Sirens are asresponsible as possible, while the Siren Server presides from an arm’slength.
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It’s not always necessary that the data be made absolutelyunavailable; sometimes data can just be decontextualized enough tobecome less valuable. Facebook provides a fine example. If a greatdeal of personal creativity and life experience has been added to thesite, it’s hard to give all that up. Even if you capture every little thingyou had uploaded, you can’t save it in the context of interactions withother people. You have to lose a part of yourself to leave Facebookonce you become an avid user. If you leave, it will become difficult forsome people to contact you at all.
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Typewriter enthusiasts often use 100% cotton or high linen content papers with weights in the 32 pound range for 8.5x11. This gives you some nice tactile feel, but will also feed into most typewriters, even with a solid backing sheet. If you want to do thicker card stocks, then you might opt for a bigger standard typewriter which generally have larger diameter platens and more easily handle much thicker paper (they were meant for doing carbon packs up up to 10 sheets or more.)
When it comes to the look of your letters, you can generally choose between silk (clean, crisp imprints), nylon (almost as clean as silk, but with more "grain"), and cotton typewriter ribbon (which leaves a very grainy/old timey and "typewriter-y" imprint). Comparisons here.
I've got a small fleet of typewriters and prefer to use the pica sizes for personal correspondence. I also tend toward the cursive or Vogue typefaces for those as well.
In the US, a lot of stationers have pre-cut paper and envelopes for 6-3/8" x 8-1/2" paper which is a good size sheet for quick notes. My typewriter pen pal Tom Hanks' most recent letter to me was on a custom page of 7.125 x 10.25" and had space for design at the top and bottom with some reasonable space in the middle. If you do custom designs, be sure to order a box or two of plain stock to use as second, third, etc. pages behind your first page if you tend to write over your first page.
Naturally custom designing your own can be fun as well, but get a few samples of the size and weight you want and try them out before ordering in quantity.
Lenore Fenton can give you tips on making carbon copies of your letters if you want to keep them for your own files while sending out the originals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUJfCfqgsX0
Searching r/typewriters for stationery, letterhead, paper, etc. might give you some ideas as well.
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The buyer pays, select USPS as the Shipping method, and then uses Pirateship to actually purchase the label from USPS or UPS. This provides a small upside on shipping, which helps cover the high packing costs. Shipping typewriters is just inherently expensive, and if you pay retail, you are going to take a bath every time. Also, you need to buy supplies in bulk from a commercial supplier. Had to learn this the hard way after eBay charged someone $40 for shipping, and when I got to FedEx it was 90+the like 25 I spent on retail shipping supplies. Now have shipping supplies down to about $12 a machine and never have a negative on shipping costs.
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Take a close look at the online shops that are selling restored machines to see how they're signaling cleaned and restored machines. Professional photos, videos, and type samples will help significantly. The market picks up closer to the holidays and will help you realize greater value.
As you surely know, the bottom of the market for these in unknown condition and potentially shaky/iffy shipping is $120 and professionally cleaned, oiled, and adjusted is in the $550 range (without a new platen).
Shops actively servicing machines and putting on new platens are going to quote in the range of $150-180 for the roughly $100 recovering + their labor. It's rare in the market that buyers truly appreciate the value of a new platen. (Most don't even appreciate the value of a serviced typewriter either.) You're much likelier to get someone paying better rates when they can see and test the machine in person to appreciate how clean and well aligned it is.
You statement about the typeface is off (presuming I found the right listing) as this is very definitely not a Congress face. Try again using: https://typecast.munk.org/2011/04/23/1964-nomda-blue-book-olympia-font-styles/
You should also specifically mention that you've replaced the rubber body gaskets that commonly have compression problems on these SM3s.
Including a facsimile copy of the manual may also be helpful: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-manuals.html
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Congratulations and welcome to the club.
For some basic typewriter 101 including a short intro to cleaning, try: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJtHauPh529XYHI5QNj5w9PUdi89pOXsS
More cleaning and restoration: - https://boffosocko.com/2024/08/09/on-colloquial-advice-for-degreasing-cleaning-and-oiling-manual-typewriters/ - https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-restoration.html
For use and maintenance: https://boffosocko.com/2025/06/06/typewriter-use-and-maintenance-for-beginning-to-intermediate-typists/
Additional resources: https://boffosocko.com/research/typewriter-collection/
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Lots of things can cause this in rough order, check:
Clean the slugs
Ribbon can have an effect. Silk is generally crisper than nylon which is crisper than cotton.
The paper can have an effect depending on the thickness and general grain.
Typing technique can play a part. Often you'll see issues including ghosting and other problems, particularly if you bottom out a key while typing.
Are you using a backing sheet?
Is your platen rock hard or has it been re-covered?
Is your ring and cylinder adjustment properly done?
The most frequently abused slugs are often the ones at the the ends of the segment and 1/! definitely qualifies. Sometimes a small bit of forming can clear things up.
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Hot Rod Typewriter has done some lovely paint jobs on typewriters. Check out Gerren's YouTube, Insta, and other socials for examples. You'll see examples of his work float by on the typewriter database from time to time as well.
Richard Polt's book Typewriter Revolution (2015) book has a whole chapter with photos on custom machines including a Twolympia which puts the internals of an SM9 into the body of an SM3.
I've seen gold, nickel, and chrome plated typewriters which are always fun. I'd love to do a nickel plate of my own one day.
Sadly, the most involved I've done so far is when my daughter loved my Clarion double gothic Royal FP, but wanted to have it in the pearlescent gray, so I swapped all the Sandstone (yellow) body panels from a another one I picked up just for the swap.
u/BlindAssassin111 had some cool custom made leather handles he showed off the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nm8eit/made_my_own_leather_handle_for_a_carrying_case/
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Some various recent uses:
- I've got writing projects sitting in two different machines.
- I use one on my primary desk for typing up notes on index cards, recipes, my commonplace "book", letters, and other personal correspondence.
- I use a few of my portables on the porch in the mornings/evenings for journaling.
- One machine in the hallway is for impromptu ideas and poetry and an occasional bit of typewriter art.
- One machine near the kitchen is always gamed up for adding to the ever-growing shopping list.
- I'll often get one out for scoring baseball games.
- Participating in One Typed Page and One Typed Quote
- Typing up notes in zoom calls - I've got a camera mount over a Royal KMG that has its own Zoom account so people can watch the notes typed in real time.
- Labels for folders, index card dividers, and sticky labels.
- Addressing envelopes.
- Writing out checks.
- Typecasting
- Hiding a flask or two of bourbon (the Fold-A-Matic Remingtons are great for this)
- Supplementing the nose of my bourbon and whisky collection.
At the end of the day though, unless you're Paul Sheldon, typewriters are unitaskers and are designed to do one thing well: put text on paper. All the rest are just variations on the theme. 😁🤪☠️
see also: https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/search/?q=typewriter+uses
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Cotton versus nylon on an Olympia SM9
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It probably doesn't hurt that Olympia was manufacturing some of the best machines at the height of typewriter manufacturing including the use of great materials (strength, durability), design, and general craftsmanship in the 20th century.
Many of these also tended to be late models which were sold in cases, so they tend to be younger, cleaner, and in much nicer condition that the majority of other typewriters out there, and condition really matters a lot when attempting to compare models. As an extreme, but illustrative comparison, a 1930s Royal portable that was pounded out and left in a barn isn't going to hold a candle to an SM3 that was lightly used and lovingly kept in a closet.
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What is the purpose of a serial number? What does it do for you? There are serial numbers on things all around you; do you know where all of those are? The VIN number on your vehicle maybe?
People now are only using them to approximate manufacturing dates for fun, but they were generally only used by the factory or repair people to identify specific machines and/or tie issues after manufacture back to production line problems. Do they need to be easily accessed or visible for these purposes? The people who really need them generally know exactly where they are and how to find them.
Sometimes they're used to create inventories for owners or in cases of theft, but these generally aren't common uses that need high visibility. Because they can be removed or defaced, should they be put in easily findable and accessible places?
Generally they're stamped in at the factory during production on integral parts of the machine during assembly. As a result, they can often be hidden or covered up by parts (especially exterior panels and body styling) added later. If it's on an exterior, easy-to-remove part, what good is it?
If it helps, here's a diagram of some common locations:
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Are you sure you're not a bot adding to the noise?!? Newport is a computer scientist who probably makes more from book sales than his day job, so wouldn't you expect he's controlling an AI bot or two that stirs the pot in Reddit and other online locations to garner interest in selling more books?
And do you think these topics are really new and intriguing? Has Newport noticed something genuinely new about the human condition? Has he got some innovative new tonic, elixir, patent medicine, or magic bean that is going to solve all your problems?
You'll probably get more out of reading the classics... the greats... the poets... For example try Geoffrey Chaucer in House of Flame (c. 1375)
For when thy labour doon al ys, And hast mad alle thy rekenynges, In stede of reste and newe thynges Thou goost hom to thy hous anoon, And also domb as any stoon, Thou sittest at another book Tyl fully daswed ys thy look.
Or translated into modern English:
For when your labour’s all done And you’ve made all the accounts Instead of rest and other things You go straight home And as dumb as any stone Sit at another book Till your eyes are fully dazed
Chaucer complains in the 14th century of "looking at screens all day" as if he were an office worker in 2025. "Making all the accounts" here is akin to staring at an accounting spreadsheet all day.
But who can productively make money on Chaucer's poetry any more, so you write your own version and reinterpret the greats to make a buck. If only Chaucer had a bot...
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Filing off typewriter slugs? <br /> Using only lower case letters
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