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I speak from my experience on Olympia typewriters, and my engineers degree says the same: The most inner portion is not intended to recurve. Main springs wind in one direction, all the way. In this status, it's not usable. But fear not, you can rescue it. I rescued a main spring that had the inner connector broken off. Main springs (like all springs) tend to be very tough steel. You can simply break the faulty portion off. Then, you clamp the new end in grip pliers that double as a grip and a heat sink. A vice will do the same, but will be very finicky with the narrow curvature of the spring. Let that piece of the spring that you intend to bend into your new connector peek out of the pliers. Get a blow torch and heat that tiny piece to a bright red glow, then bend it one-third of the intended bend. Heat again, bend again, and once again. And now comes the most important part, the annealing: Take the spring out of the heat sink. Carefully apply heat to the new connector and the first tiny piece of the spring with your blow torch. You want to warm the connector, the bend and approximately 5mm or ¼ inch of the untouched spring. Don't allow it to glow. It may only make slight orange traces in the flame, but no more. Pull the flame away slowly, don't let it crash cool, don't blow on it, don't put it in water. Don't burn your fingers in the process. Your main spring is shorter now, but it will work just fine. Welcome to the world of typewriter blacksmiths.
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Etsy can often have people flipping machines without having any work done, so be careful on what price you're paying for what you're getting. If it's over $350, it ought to fully serviced and have some sort of guarantee. Otherwise, find something at your local repair shop: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html
This question is asked so often, I've written up some good general advice which should apply to your child: https://boffosocko.com/2025/03/29/first-time-typewriter-purchases-with-specific-recommendations-for-writers/ For the age and your desire not to be bulky, go for a portable machine and not a larger standard or the more finnicky ultra-portables.
Some might opt for the brighter colored typewriters for kids for the "fun" factor, but I've found, having done a few type-ins with a huge variety of machines, that it's often the adults that are drawn to the colorful machines (which tend to be less well-built and plastic-y/cheaper) while kids will respond well to the older, duller vintage machines.
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Leszczyk, Marianna. 2025. “How Things Can Be Used: Aby Warburg’s Zettelkästen, Materiality, and Affordances.” The Warburg Institute. https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/blogs/how-things-can-be-used-aby-warburgs-zettelkasten-materiality-affordances (December 4, 2025).
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Fig. 3: View of selected dividers in ZK 19: “Religion – Myth”, “Mythology pragmatic”, “Venus and her entourage”, “Ancient Superstition Afterlife”, “Mysteries”. © Warburg Institute
Somewhat curious of the dates/times of the creation of these tabbed cards. Surely made in the 20th century, but since Warburg was likely creating notes in the late 1800s, where does this sit with respect to the invention of the tab card in 1894 claimed by Progressive Indexing and Filing (Remington Rand, 1950, p205)?
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Fig.1: Selected Zettelkästen as stored at the Warburg Archive: ZK 17 “Politics” and ZK 7 “Iconology, Synthesis". © Warburg Institute
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I would like to give the Zettelkästen a much larger online presence than they currently have, opening up new resonances between the digital gaze, the materiality of the archive, and the affordances of both.
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In a much cited anecdote by Fritz Saxl, Warburg’s long-term academic collaborator and first director of the Warburg Institute, we find Aby “standing tired and distressed, bent over his boxes with a packet of index cards, trying to find for each one the best place within the system”.[6]
[6] Fritz Saxl, The History of Warburg’s Library (1886-1944) cited in Gombrich 1970, p. 329; Marchand 2023, p. 186; Steiner 2013, p. 155; Wedepohl 2014, p. 389.
It's only in a physical card system one might worry a bit about "best place" for a card. Some of it is down to one's future self being able to find it, but cross-references could have been placed or an amanuensis might have created an exact copy for multiple copies in many locations.
What does Ernst Bernheim have to say on the topic of filing?
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As Marchand elucidates, it was most likely before his research trip to Rome in autumn 1928 that Warburg had all the material in the then-existent 72 boxes stamped with a number sequence identifying each individual item by its box and its place within the order of items across all boxes (so, for instance, the index card shown in Fig. 2. would be item number 10042 in the overall sequence). This detailed indexing allowed Warburg and Gertrud Bing to assemble a new set of Zettelkästen specifically for the Rome trip without worrying about irredeemably displacing any items from their original locations. These “travelling boxes” were never dismantled as planned, however, and are still part of the Archive today, recognisable by a separate numbering sequence marked in square brackets (e.g. ZK [1]). Although the square-bracketed Zettelkasten sequence now also includes other boxes that were unnumbered at Warburg’s death, the visible difference between the two sequences remains a testimony to the mobility of the Zettelkasten corpus and its role in Warburg’s work on the famous Bilderatlas, a central part of which occurred during the abovementioned Rome trip with Bing.
"travelling boxes" as analog "back up"
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The relative ease with which they could be relocated and transported allowed Warburg to use the Zettelkästen as a mobile research tool during periods of absence from his study. Indeed, even the characteristic numbering we now find on many of the paper slips is considered to be related to questions of travel.
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In 1977, social psychologist James Gibson coined the term “affordance” to denote “action possibilities provided to the actor by the environment”.[2] A decade later, Donald Norman introduced affordances to the field of object design in his well-known book The Psychology of Everyday Things (1988), after which the concept quickly made its way into all corners of the humanities and social sciences, including the study of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
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Aby Warburg left posterity with 99 index card boxes or, as they are called in German, Zettelkästen.
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William Sherman Dickey<br /> September 6, 1939 – October 11, 2025
William Sherman Dickey, age 86, of Claremont, California passed away on Saturday, October 11, 2025. William was born in Al Hambra CA.
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THE SCIENCE OF THE FILING ENGINEERThe Simplex Alpabetic Method Is Considered the Most Efficient and Takes Care ofTAverage Requirements - It May Be the 95% File-Complex Methods Also Explained
Butters, Roland W. 1921. “The Science of the Filing Engineer.” Filing & Office Management 6(7): 193–94. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Filing_Office_Management/o1rnAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA193&printsec=frontcover&dq=duplex.
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Also, many exponents of filing knowledge have saidthat their file is a "fool-proof" one. I believe that youquestion this statement, as the only way to have afile as near perfect as possible, is to have safe andsane ideas and put them into practice; that is whythe Alphabetic file is the 95% file.
Alphabetic filing accounts for 95% of filing systems according to Butters.
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The reason for this beingin the Complex classification is, as one will tell youwho has operated a Subject File, because a great dealof care must be exercised in not only laying out theproper plan, but working in and cooperating withthose who send matter to be filed, and are constantlyasking for it. The file clerk may think it goes in oneplace, but unless it is carefully marked as to whereit should be filed and then remembered, and possiblyagain classified by card, it is many times found a dif-ficult matter to handle.
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The next Complex method in order, is the Numeric,which may be divided into three classes, straight num-eric, duplex and decimal. It is safe to say that withthe straight Alphabetic or Geographic, ninety-five per-cent of the cases where an Index is used will be moreefficiently handled by the use of either one of theseMethods, than by the Numeric. However, there aresome cases where there is a great deal of cross refer-ence, thus making the use of the Numeric methodmore advantageous.
This is likely the reason why most commonplacers using index card systems use alphabetic set ups by subject rather than Niklas Luhmann's duplex numeric variation.
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McCord, James Newton. 1920. A Textbook of Filing. D. Appleton. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Textbook_of_Filing/SBowAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0.
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The material filedcan be arranged as the cards would be,so as to bring together all the paperson a given subject.
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The use of the cross reference sheet
A portion of the reason why Luhmann chose a duplex numeric filing system for his zettelkasten.
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secondary number form of notation be considered in perfect order with-e. g.Administration :1-1-a General1-2-a Officers1-2-b Meetings of officers .This allows for more expansion and iscommonly termed "Duplex Numeric."
The numeric arrangement elim-inates the decimal feature and is used when the number of main divisions is likely to exceed nine, a primary and
This is exactly Niklas Luhamann's zettelkasten numbering system.
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The object of any system is speedin service, and to obtain this, in sub-ject work, all correspondence on agiven subject must be filed together,regardless of who wrote it or at whattime it was written, so that the historyof everything that has taken place onone subject may be found in one place.
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Classification of Files of the U. S. ExplosivePlant at Nitro, W. Va.By Miss J. L. Dillard
Dillard, J. L. 1919. “Subject and Classification Filing: Classification of Files in the U.S. Explosive Plant at Nitro, W. Va.” Filing: A Magazine on Indexing & Filing 3(2): 401–3. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Filing/nxFLAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA401&printsec=frontcover&dq=duplex (December 2, 2025).
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UBJECT filing is a branch of filingwhich is not much used in thebusiness world but which deservesas much attention as any other. It ismore complicated than other systemsand an adaptation has to be workedout for each , business to which it isapplied, but after the classification hasonce been made, it will prove to be foreconomy and increased efficiency.
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ne of the chief drawbacks in using the Alpha-betic and Numeric systems in conjunction with asubject file is that in handling a large amount ofmaterial a great deal of cross referencing has tobe done, causing much extra labor and filling upthe files.
drawbacks of alphabetic and numeric systems with respect to cross referencing
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If a letter refers to more than one subject, it isfiled under the name of the subject considered ofthe most importance, and a cross reference card ismade out and placed in the card index. The nameof the subject by which it is to be filed may beunderscored with a colored pencil.
Luhmann actively used red colored pencils in his cross referencing system, a practice that was suggested by many indexing and filing textbooks of his era.
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utive numbers are assigned to the different sub-jects; if it is necessary to sub-divide these sub-jects, a letter of the alphabet is appended. Thus-Insurance..1 , Auto. Ins... 1-1 , Auto. Fire Ins.-1-1-a.
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A Duplex Numeric system may also be used forSubject filing, which is the using of combinationsof numbers without the decimal limitations. Adash or hyphen being used instead of the decimalmark.
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ll correspondence is filed under the correspond-ent's number, unless it relates to branch offices orto a subject relating to some special division ofthe correspondent's business, for which it has beennecessary to assign a separate folder. In this casethey are assigned auxiliary numbers to the mainnumber. This is known as a Duplex Numericsystem of numbering.American Express Co. 52431234 Market St. , Phila., PaNew York City, N. Y.Pittsburgh , Pa.-1-2Rochester , N. Y. -3
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Lennig, Margaret Antoinette. 1920. Filing Methods: A Text Book on the Filing & Indexing of Commercial & Government Records. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Filing_Methods/vVagv_GyENwC?hl=en&gbpv=0.
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1002. By using the primary and secondary or duplexnumeric system (see §§ 159-163, 432-433) , the primary num-ber can be used to designate the client, each case or matterhandled for that particular client being indicated by thesecondary number, permitting the grouping of the records per-taining to a given client and his affairs in one place.
Luhmann would likely have been aware of duplex numeric systems of filing from legal and governmental filing work. It's not a difficult jump to go from client to subject matter to keep ideas bundled "in one place."
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Hudders suggests duplex numeric systems for mercantile use, architects, contractors, lawyers' correspondence and for drawings and blueprint filing.
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620. Should further expansion be required, a third divisioncan be made by suffixing letters of the alphabet in rotation, e.g. :4-3 FIRE INSURANCE4-3a Losses4-3b Agents4-3c Rates4-3d Danger Zones
expanding numeric systems is quite easy
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615. If the filing is started on a straight numeric basis,with the titles assigned to cover broad groups, it would be pos-sible to expand it to a duplex numeric system either in partor in its entirety if need be.
Numeric systems can be expanded to duplex num.eric systems
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COMPARISON OF THE DECIMAL ARRANGEMENT WITHTHE DUPLEX NUMERIC ARRANGEMENT ( showing the possibilityof expansion in the latter that is lacking in the decimalclassification )
Notice the one-to-one correspondences between these systems.
There is a sort of artificial lack of extension, but numerically it really doesn't exist mathematically.
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Hudders, Eugene Russell. 1919. Indexing and Filing: A Manual of Standard Practice. 5th ed. New York: The Ronald Press Company. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Indexing_and_Filing/p_MRAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0.
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division can be limited to 26. Although provision for a third subdi-vision can be made, it is not advisable.
The duplex numeric method of filing is designed for use when the number of primary or main subjects exceeds 10 and the second sub-
Specifically note the "is not advisable" portion, particularly with respect to N. Luhmann's practice.
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The distribution according to given names results inoverguiding many sections of the file.
overguiding: the activity of using more card index dividers than might be absolutely necessary
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little consideration of the advantages and disadvantages of thisvariation of alphabetic indexing will prove that the standard alpha-betic systems are much more satisfactory in the majority of cases.
subject indexes are considered more useful than the duplex name indexes.
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Tao, Terence. “What Is Good Mathematics?,” February 13, 2007. http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702396.
Variations of this can also be applied to other fields, like history. What makes good history, good historians, good history teachers, etc.?
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The initialterms of the limited partnership stated that the first round of investorswould have their returns capped at 100x of what they put in.
100x seems a fantastic return. What are the upper reaches of unicorn investing in comparison to this? Many companies fail outright, so is it really a horrible investment?
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Initial investments poured in to the LP, including more than $60 millionrolled over from OpenAI’s nonprofit, $10 million from YC, and $50 millioneach from Khosla Ventures and Hoffman’s charitable foundation. Hoffmanwas initially reluctant to invest more in OpenAI when it had no product ormarket plan, he later recounted. But he ultimately agreed to colead theround after Altman told him it would help legitimize the seriousness ofOpenAI’s intention to develop a profitable business.
This has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
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After fiveyears as head of the organization, frustration with Altman had reachedcritical levels over an issue strikingly similar to one that had arisen atLoopt: his seeming prioritization of his own projects and aspirations overthe organization’s—sometimes even at its expense.
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I've never tried Wexford before either, but often those sorts of products are mass produced in China by one company and just re-labeled for half a dozen different companies, so searching around may find something similar under a different name.
I will say that some of the ones you listed tend to be the cheapest, lower quality cards I've run across. I use the Amazon Basics a lot, but primarily because they had a sale on their bricks of 500 cards a year or two back and I picked up 20 of them for $2.50 each.
Oxford cards are some of the smoother (inexpensive) cards I've tried in the past, but even their paper quality has shifted a bit over the past 15 years.
If you're doing 3x5 cards in blank, Brodart's library catalog cards are of a much higher quality and durability without breaking the bank and they're wonderfully smooth as well. https://www.shopbrodart.com/
Stockroom plus has some great quality, smooth cards, but I've only ever seen them in gridded format and never plain or lined: https://www.amazon.com/Grid-Index-Cards-Inches-White/dp/B08BJ11LWC/
Notsu also has some high quality smooth cards, but I don't think I've seen them in lined format and they can tend toward being very expensive.
If you have the funds and want something incredibly smooth, try the Exacompta Bristol cards made by Clairefontaine. Their manufacturing process is dramatically different and they're incredibly smooth, particularly for fountain pen use. The downside is that they can be almost 3 times more expensive than other brands. They do carry their cards in a wide variety of sizes and formats though.
One of these days I ought to lay out a grid of the more common cards and do some more serious reviews.
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Hunter, Estelle Belle. 1923. Modern Filing Manual. Rochester, NY: Yawman and Erbe Manufacturing Company. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Modern_Filing_Manual/F-lNAQAAMAAJ?hl=en.
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Das gerichtliche Aktenzeichen dient der Kennzeichnung eines Dokuments und geht auf die Aktenordnung (AktO) vom 28. November 1934 und ihre Vorgänger zurück.[4]
The court file number is used to identify a document and goes back to the file regulations (AktO) of November 28, 1934 and its predecessors.
The German "file number" (aktenzeichen) is a unique identification of a file, commonly used in their court system and predecessors as well as file numbers in public administration since at least 1934.
Niklas Luhmann studied law at the University of Freiburg from 1946 to 1949, when he obtained a law degree, before beginning a career in Lüneburg's public administration where he stayed in civil service until 1962. Given this fact, it's very likely that Luhmann had in-depth experience with these sorts of file numbers as location identifiers for files and documents.
We know these numbering methods in public administration date back to as early as Vienna, Austria in the 1770s.
The missing piece now is who/where did Luhmann learn his note taking and excerpting practice from? Alberto Cevolini argues that Niklas Luhmann was unaware of the prior tradition of excerpting, though note taking on index cards or slips had been commonplace in academic circles for quite some time and would have been reasonably commonplace during his student years.
Are there handbooks, guides, or manuals in the early 1900's that detail these sorts of note taking practices?
Perhaps something along the lines of Antonin Sertillanges’ book The Intellectual Life (1921) or Paul Chavigny's Organisation du travail intellectuel: recettes pratiques à l’usage des étudiants de toutes les facultés et de tous les travailleurs (in French) (Delagrave, 1918)?
Further recall that Bruno Winck has linked some of the note taking using index cards to legal studies to Roland Claude's 1961 text:
I checked Chavigny’s book on the BNF site. He insists on the use of index cards (‘fiches’), how to index them, one idea per card but not how to connect between the cards and allow navigation between them.
Mind that it’s written in 1919, in Strasbourg (my hometown) just one year after it returned to France. So between students who used this book and Luhmann in Freiburg it’s not far away. My mother taught me how to use cards for my studies back in 1977, I still have the book where she learn the method, as Law student in Strasbourg “Comment se documenter”, by Roland Claude, 1961. Page 25 describes a way to build secondary index to receive all cards relatives to a topic by their number. Still Luhmann system seems easier to maintain but very near.
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As a professional editor I marked up copy with a red pencil. The proofreader used blue.
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I was in Academic Publishing for a few years. I used the half red/half blue pencils (Mitsu 772) extensively for marking up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pencils/comments/p8w070/wooden_pencils_with_red_lead/
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Royal KMM basic introduction
Looks like a post-war standard Royal KMM, sometimes best known as the machine used by Jessica Fletcher in the TV show Murder She Wrote (as well as the upcoming Jamie Lee Curtis reboot.)
Richard Polt has you covered for the manual and some repair manuals/information.
Some contemporaneous videos on use and maintenance may help.
As for ribbon replacement, try this video. 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 1/2 inch wide universal ribbon onto them, remove the eyelette which isn't needed and may interfere with the auto reverse. If necessary, Ribbons Unlimited carries these spools or you can get them (and ribbon) from a local typewriter repair shop.
Ribbon purveyors: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-faq.html#q1. I prefer Baco and Fine Line for their spectacular pricing and quality.
Other known historical users of the Royal KMM:
- John Ashbery
- Russell Baker
- Ray Bradbury
- Richard Brautigan
- Richard Brooks
- Pearl S. Buck
- Johnny Carson (or possibly KMG)
- Norman Corwin
- Frank Herbert
- Helen Keller
- Murray Kempton
- Ken Kesey
- George Washington Lee
- Harper Lee
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- David McCullough
- Margaret Mead
- Dorothy Paraker
- Grantland Rice
- Georges Simenon
- Christina Stead
- Tom Wolfe
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It's a small metal ring/hub that fits onto the ribbon spindle. You can call around to repair shops for replacements (which may be the cheapest route) https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html. Ribbons Unlimited https://ribbonsunlimited.com also sells these hubs with ribbon attached, but it's more expensive to do this, but once you've got them, you can buy ribbon by itself for much cheaper in the future and just wind the new ribbon onto existing spool hubs.
Here's some useful videos which might help you out: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTFM54VKKc4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWQTa4b7jPs (This one has some advice about using a Remington without the spools.)
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On some typewriters, there is a feature called the End Of Line Lock which has this effect on the key action. Its purpose is to prevent inadvertent typing when the carriage is at the right margin. It is a bar across the width that prevents the links from going through their whole range. When that lock is stuck has the effect you are seeing at every position. Now, in this case it may not be stuck by dirt or bent parts but instead by the lack of its return spring. So, inspect the action until you understand how it works on this tw (It's triggered by a part on the carriage hitting the right margin stop, which causes that bar to move into position to block the type linkages.) and look for a place where a return spring might be missing or disconnected. Fix that. This might not be your actual problem but it is the most likely.
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1p24iee/remington_deluxe_only_works_when_vertical/
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Yes, the R.C. Allens use a proprietary spool to trigger the ribbon reversal. This spool is subtly different from the "universal" spools and the universals will not even fit, though they look like they will. (I just checked this.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1p1w0vx/what_type_of_ribbon_would_this_need/
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“The kids get it,” Lundy says. “They’re not trying to be nostalgic for something they never experienced. They’re trying to escape what they experience every day.”
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Sometimes Mr. Montgomery would partly disassemble a machine and leave it on Lundy’s bench — a test, a puzzle, a method of teaching as old as apprenticeship itself.
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One Sunday morning in 2014, he opened The Seattle Times and found a feature story about Bob Montgomery, age 92, known to friends, customers and locals simply as Mr. Montgomery. The article read like an obituary for a vanishing trade — fixing typewriters — suggesting that when Mr. Montgomery went, seven decades of expertise would vanish into the digital ether.
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Did Robert C. Russell and Margaret King Odell specifically use the Major System as the model for their Soundex phonetic algorithm for indexing?
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There is a close relationship between the Soundex indexing scheme and the scheme behind the Major System!!!
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He is the gloomy Lord of theDead in some, in others akind helpful spirit; he is animposing warrior and a littlefairy-king; he is fatal andterrible to people, and is saidto fetch them after theirdeath to his palace foreternal banquets; he is a black magician, a wicked demon, akin to andconfused with the devil, and he plays pleasant little tricks which show hisgood humour; he is quoted as an arbiter in disputes, and his name is usedin curses.
Inspired by this section, though not specifically suggested:
In Greek, Roman, and even Christian (saint) traditions, most gods (saints), were closely associated with one or potentially a few attributes which made it easier to give them short hand identifications and also to use them in mnemonic traditions. It would seem that in Celtic traditions, that the gods (or heroes) were better delineated people with broader and fuller characters which didn't play into this sort of mnemonic/oral piece in the same way.
Donn in Irish traditions seems to fit this mold. What other evidences could be brought to bear to back this up?
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Woman has created a Museum of Tiny Things inside her library card catalog.
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Experiments with different backing sheets in typewriters.
A Shore A 60 silicone backing sheet wasn't a great improvement. A 0.3mm TPU sheet with 75A to 80A may prove better results?
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in the mid-20th century, Hedges Mfg. Co. made card index boxes
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It seems like the cartridges for the Lettera 12 are no longer available.
see also: https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ov8fa3/olivetti_lettera_12/
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For the ribbon vibrator portion, they had to choose at least one key to check, and likely choose one of the repair person's favorite default alignment keys.
It's used in alignment because the capital H is both wide and tall and the lower case h goes above the midline which neither m nor n do. On serifed faces (especially), the HHHhhhHHH combination creates a pretty nice visual baseline to ensure the the type has the proper "motion" and is "on feet". These Hs at both ends of the platen and in the center help to check print evenness when doing the ring and cylinder adjustment. They're also useful when adjusting the level of the line indicator though other letters like m, n, z, and k aren't bad either. Letters like v and i are thinner or almost non-existent on the baseline in comparison.
They also frequently use the / character which extends both above and below most other characters to ensure proper alignment with respect to both a bichrome ribbon and the strike against the platen. You want a nice even imprint from top to bottom. % is also good for this as well.
Some of the repair manuals at https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-manuals.html as well as some of Ted Munk's manuals available through the typewriter database describe many of these adjustments and suggest specific letters for easier visual inspections.
I'd be curious to hear other repair people's favorite letters and characters.
Incidentally, for installing ribbon, many but not all manuals will suggest putting the bichrome setting to red and then simultaneously pressing the G and H keys so that their typebars gently jam together just in front of the typing point. This raises the ribbon vibrator to its highest point and makes it easier to thread the ribbon into it.
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Video: George H.W. Bush speaks at Johns Hopkins commencement in 1996<br /> by [[Jacob deNobel]] in JHU Hub<br /> accessed on 2025-11-11T09:12:00
'Be bold,' the 41st U.S. president told students at university's undergraduate diploma ceremony on May 22, 1996
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Our country's 50,000-year-old encyclopedia<br /> by [[Margaret Burin]], [[Chris Lewis]] in ABC News accessed on 2025-11-11T08:50:57
via A 50,000 year old community PKMS : r/PKMS<br /> by [[WadeDRubicon]]<br /> accessed on 2025-11-11T08:50:16
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Museum of Printing in Haverhill, MA has a section of typewriters.
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Reply to query about the differences between using index cards versus planners at https://reddit.com/r/indexcards/comments/1or2btl/gloria_steinems_memindex/
Broadly, yes, but there are a few subtle affordances index cards have over book-bound or notebook-style planners: - Self indexing. Any notes you write down on separate cards really self-index themselves when filed versus needing to index them on a separate page in your planner/notebook which, if used over several years, means consulting multiple indexes rather than just one to search your data. (This is big for me as I also use cards for my commonplacebook/zettelkasten/pkm needs as well as for project planning and general notes.) - More portable. You can put one or several at your own discretion in your pocket at a time. (You can also carry a larger swath in a small pouch if you need more.) - Better protection against total loss. If you lose your planner, everything in if for the year is gone. If you loose the cards you're carrying, it's only a few days' worth. - Takes away the worries of starting and/or perfection, especially in a new notebook as you can always rewrite/recreate a card. - If you make your own layouts/spreads, there's less worry about planning ahead. - If you need to, you can lay out multiple cards at a time to more easily view, cross-reference, or reorganize them on the table instead of all your data being bound on separate pages and needing to flip back and forth. - Index cards can be much less expensive, particularly when compared to some of the higher end notebooks, even if you buy the more premium cards.
In the end it all comes down to personal preference and what works best for you and your favorite working methods.
More material on these and related topics based on my own research and experiences: https://boffosocko.com/research/zettelkasten-commonplace-books-and-note-taking-collection/
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Six Takeaways From the Senate Deal to End the Shutdown<br /> by [[Michael Gold]] The New York Times<br /> accessed on 2025-11-09T22:32:58
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Bulk manufacturer of typewriter ribbon
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No Password, No Problem: Unlocking Your Windows Account - YouTube<br /> by [[TechsavvyProductions]] on YouTube<br /> accessed on 2025-11-09T10:18:00
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Old book typewriter Underwood Elliott-Fisher (1930), how to type on books, and why (video N°103)<br /> by [[Old Typewriters and Calculators]] on YouTube<br /> accessed on 2025-11-09T09:32:48
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DIY Planner Hipster PDA Edition<br /> by dougj for DIY Planner<br /> accessed on 2025-11-09T09:30:56
Downloadable versions of lots of spreads for the hipster PDA
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Translation Guide: Beowulf for r/AYearOfMythology group on Reddit
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A new platen will certainly help, but it's also a question of having a proper ring and cylinder adjustment across the length of your platen and segment. Often letters that punch through tend to be the . , and o which are at the extreme end of the segment. Some machines have adjustment screws at either end of the carriage and the adjustment should be checked at not only the center of the platen but both ends. If you don't have an experienced mechanic who knows how to do all of this properly you can easily get issues which will most often show up at the far ends of the the segment/platen.
Beyond a proper adjustment, it's also the case that the surface area of the . and , are smaller than other characters and so they tend to get more force even when actuated by the weaker fingers on the right hand when touch typing. Some older manuals and training films will suggest putting less pressure on these keys when typing. This is likely even more important for those who hunt-and-peck and are likely using the full force of their index fingers.
Unless your ribbon is obviously dry or marginal, replacing your ribbon isn't likely to help much. Slugs are made out of hardened steel and you'd have to do something incredibly drastic to damage the slugs, so don't sweat that too much. Backing sheet will help as a stop-gap particularly on machines with older/hardened platens, but there's only so much help that will do without a good platen and a properly adjusted machine.
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Joe Van Cleave has a great video on this with respect to the Smith-Corona 5 series that will give one an idea on the entirety of adjustment points that are at play in some typewriters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYOXgqiHBmg
Personally, I've yet to run across a vintage Series 5 machine whose user-facing control lever was adjusted in a way such that it did anything at all because the linkages were so far out of whack. I suspect this may be the case on a lot of vintage machines.
On some machines the adjustment isn't controlling the amount of finger force one must apply, but it's controlling springs relating more to the return of the typebars and the slugs so that touch typers can type much faster without having issues with typebar return jamming things up.
Further, on many machines the dynamic range of forces involved is so narrow that most hobbyist and occasional typists aren't going to really notice a significant difference. This may be different for those who are more experienced and used to typing on a manual machine for several hours a day.
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Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History<br /> by [[American Experience]] on PBS<br /> accessed on 2025-11-08T09:13:39
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When your left pinkie is the weakest finger and the 1 key is the longest reach, who cares on a mechanical typewriter? Even my later Smith-Coronas with a dedicated 1, I still use a lower case "l". It's probably more of a distraction for those who hunt and peck and expect the 1 to be up there with the rest of the numbers.
I'm irked that the lower case "l" on my computer doesn't give me the number 1. I'm even more irked on my Royal FP with Clarion Double Gothic that I have to remember to do a capital "I" to get the 1 and end up with either a lower case "l" or sometimes even an upper case "L".
I also have a macro for searching my computer drafts for asterisks so that I can change them to the appropriate apostrophes because my laptop keyboard is just wrong. I've got half a dozen different language keyboards installed on my computer, I just wish one of them was 1950's Royal Standard!
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Spotted in Finding Forrester (2000) Forrester and Jamal are both typing on Underwood typewriters. The brighter one is a Underwood Five and the darker one is a Underwood SX-100.
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Royal KHM KHY Typewriter, Replace Broken Type Bar Link, Modified Fabricated New Part from Paper Clip - YouTube<br /> by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]<br /> accessed on 2025-11-07T09:30:07
A rebuilt Royal KHM with a KHY serial number?!
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Gloria Steinem was using a Memindex in 1960!
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[01:02:30] Memory and permanence<br /> 400,000 books burned; 700,000 books damaged<br /> Susan Orlean book on library fire
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You know a typewriter is being used as flimsy filler decoration when it's sitting on a shelf and simultaneously serving as a book support. [38:33]
A real writer's typewriter is free and clear so that the carriage can move its full length.
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Award-Winning Writer Explains Her Entire Process — Susan Orlean - YouTube<br /> by [[David Perell]]<br /> accessed on 2025-11-05T09:13:24
0:00:38 Susan Orlean uses index cards as part of her process. She's done this for three or four books by October 29, 2025.
She uses her index cards (often in the range of 700) to arrange and re-arrange the material. She uses it to refresh her memory as she's working with it.
Things can be as small as a name of a character. Some are references to longer research documents.
"chunk of thought" (her version of atomic notes)
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One suspects that the words seem less precious or permanent as well.
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- Gorham silver-bodied Corona portables made for the Christmas season of 1931
Gold plated machines: - Royal Quiet De Luxes - Olympia SM3
Most of the rest of the machines out there were aftermarket cleaning and restoration related work.
Marketing:<br /> The Corona was one of a number that were plated in 24 K gold for a Luis Vuitton marketing campaign
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Symptom: Ghosting lines overlaying typed text:
This is assuredly not a type slug cleaning issue and the secret is that the loops in the letters like "a", "e", "o", etc. are clear. The lines are caused by the paper not being held to the platen, so when the slug hits, you're getting ink from the other part of the slug transferring to the paper. The remedy is to tuck the paper underneath the paper bale and rollers.
If one still sees issues after this then check your manual to ensure that the ribbon is properly threaded followed by a check that the ribbon vibrator isn't bent too far away from the typing point and too close to the platen and causing the ribbon to rub against the paper.
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A New U: Replacing a key legend on a Royal KMM typewriter<br /> by [[Richard Polt]] on The Typewriter Revolution blog<br /> accessed on 2025-11-04T10:16:51
A good, short tutorial on how to replace the key legends of a glass key typewriter with photos and tools. Also includes a .pdf template for the legends of a Royal KMM typewriter.
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This is something for the category of 'most interesting things found inside of a typewiter'. As I was inspecting and preparing to test a new-to-me SC 5LE, when I opened the ribbon cover, I saw this. I wish I had taken a better picture of what i looked like after I got the shell off of the machine, but I was pretty intent on getting it outside and making sure it wasn't inhabited. I ID'd it later as a mud wasp/mud dauber nest.
via Patty Perkins at https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10162788538859678/
mud wasp/mud dauber nest in a typewriter<br />
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The pages of Great BooJ(s of the Western World are printed in either one or two columns. The upper and lower halves of a one-column page are indicated by the letters a and b. When the text is printed in two columns, the letters a and b refer to the upper and lower halves of the lefthand column, the letters c and d to the upper and lower halves of the right-hand column. These half and quarter page sections are based on divisions of a full text page.
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RESTORATION of an antique typewriter "BASHKIRIA" 1923. Restoration OF A 100-YEAR-OLD TYPEWRITER. - YouTube<br /> by [[PSV Restoration]]<br /> accessed on 2025-11-01T23:46:28
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SCM Electra 220 Versus Coronet Automatic 12 - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]]<br /> accessed on 2025-11-01T22:48:53
The Coronet Automatics were one of the first in their line with 1/2 line spacing.
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Hunting for Typewriter Accessories - YouTube<br /> by [[Just My Typewriter]] - Sarah Everett accessed on 2025-11-01T22:07:29
Estate sales often have interesting office supplies and paper in desks.
2:45 typewriter ribbon tins; made out of tin, cardboard, paper<br /> sometimes tins come with spools or spare parts
5:35 Typewriter ribbon display kits and pieces
6:58 Typewriter case keys<br /> She's collected images of case keys to know what to buy.<br /> She's got a buying guide on her website with photos.
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15:25 Typing books, user manuals, Typatune,
16:29 Typewriter toys; often in the $25+ range
17:23 Typewriter advertisements<br /> Sarah often purchases these online and uses them in her videos.<br /> Underwood fingernail polish advertisements
19:15 Typewriter playing cards (advertisement)
20:13 Typewriter related postcards
20:45 Typewriter books:<br /> - references; lots online; - Anthony Casillo - Typewriters (coffee books) - Michael Adler: Antique Typewriters - Paul Robert and Peter Weil - Iron Whim by Darren Werschler-Henry - non-fiction, history, - books written by other collectors<br /> - Tom Hanks' Uncommon Type<br /> - Olivetti by Allie Millington
Crescent City Books in New Orleans - has typewriters as decoration
25:03 Typewriter community collectors/creators<br /> - Lucas Dul - The Williams Typewriter (Loose Dog Press) - Loose Dog Press series<br /> - Woz Flint - The Distraction-Free First Draft<br /> - Richard Polt - The Typewriter Revolution (after thought)
28:43: Typewriter Magazines - ETCetera - Novellum Magazine (Writing related)
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- stationery
- Typeatune
- typing books
- cleaning tools
- watch
- typewriter ribbon tins
- vintage paper
- typewriter toys
- typewriter cases and keys
- typewriter collecting
- typewriter accessories
- typewriter ephemera
- typewriter manuals
- typewriter creator community
- typewriter erasers
- typewriter brushes
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www.latimes.com www.latimes.com
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'CBS Evening News' co-anchor John Dickerson will leave the network this year<br /> by [[Stephen Battaglio]] - Los Angeles Times<br /> accessed on 2025-10-31T23:37:40
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www.facebook.com www.facebook.com
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/721704878218903/posts/2896289730760396/
- Ivan Campos (SoCal)
- Tyler Alan Macek (Bay Area)
- Scott Cuzzo (Ventura)
- Andres Mejia (Fullerton, Orange)
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Introduction to Functional Analysis<br /> by [[Casey Rodriguez]] via MIT Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare accessed on 2025-10-30T14:15:24
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Introduction to Functional Analysis<br /> by [[Richard Melrose]] via | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare<br /> accessed on 2025-10-30T14:14:14
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Katie Nolan Destroys UNC’S Mike Lombardi Over His 'Cute' Typewriter Video<br /> by [[Stephen Douglas]] for Sports Illustrated<br /> accessed on 2025-10-30T13:53:59
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www.berkley-fishing.com www.berkley-fishing.com
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https://www.berkley-fishing.com/collections/line-tools/products/line-counter
Off-label use of a line counter with typewriter ribbon length?
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www.walmart.com www.walmart.com
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Off-label uses for linewinders as typewriter ribbon winders?
- https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fishing-Line-Winder-Spooler-Aluminum-Alloy-Spooling-Station-Adjustable-Rotating-Axis-Steel-Frame-Clamp-Workbench-Fishing-Line-Spooler-Machine-Multipl/17084510284?classType=REGULAR
- https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fishing-Line-Spoolers-Adjustable-Fishing-Line-Winders-Spoolers-Machine-Spinnings-Baitcasting-Reel-Spooling/17886252799?classType=VARIANT
- https://www.walmart.com/ip/Apooke-Spinning-Reel-Fishing-Line-Fishingline-Winder-Equipment-Winder-Spooler-Machine-with-Suction-Cup-Fishing-Line-Spooler/5648376830?classType=REGULAR
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- photos
- linewinders
- typewriter ribbon winder
- fishing line
- fishing
- off-label use cases
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www.trianglesport.com www.trianglesport.com
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https://www.trianglesport.com/
Potential off-label use cases for their line winders with respect to spooling typewriter ribbon?
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www.deansphotographica.com www.deansphotographica.com
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There were at least two different mechanisms that S-C used to regulate the Power Space and I am unfamiliar with one of them. Start by taking off the bottom panel so you can see what's going on. Operate the power space while watching what is moving and then you should be able to understand what's involved. The system That i know switches out the regular escapement regulation (the dogs activated by key and spacebar linkages) for an independent one wherein the dogs are instead controlled by a fat rubber finger that gets diddled by a yoke that is powered by the otherwise free motion of the carriage. That's when it is working. Now, tho, it's not right. Most common fault is with the pivot for that linkage. See if that yoke feels sloppy. There is a white plastic screw with a divot in the inner end to hold and allow adjustment of the bearing of the yoke. That pivot screw is threaded through a hole in the frame and locked with a metal locknut and the thing loosens over the decades, allowing slop in controlling the dogs. If you're lucky the threads can be coaxed into holding a fresh adjustment. Do not force or overtighten it. Incidentally, the speed of the Power Space action can be adjusted by the position of that yoke hitting the rubber finger; that should not need adjustment, but keep it in mind. Your cause could be something else, but the normal operation of the escapement working with the keys and spacebar indicates that the escapement is basically OK. Cleaning never hurts, though.
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1oi6808/space_runs_too_fast_with_loud_buzzing_sound_plz/ reply via u/ahelper
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https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ojf7oe/oil_for_typewriter/
via /jbhusker<br /> SC 6 series part 1.
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www.instructables.com www.instructables.com
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Making Tab Stops for an LC Smith Typewriter : 3 Steps - Instructables<br /> by [[Instructables]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-30T11:30:29
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discord.com discord.com
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Courtesy of @Pelicram ❤ : Peli's Shellac Rescue Formula aka The Cowboy's Delight. This will help bring back a deeper black color shellaced panels which have been yellowed and damaged by UV over the years. With enough elbow grease it will remove the old shellac completely but it takes a very long time and you're likely to damage any decals present on the panel. In most cases the procedure described below will be sufficient to restore the appearance to an acceptable level. The recipe: 70% Light machine oil. 30% IPA (Isopropyl Alcohol) or White/Mineral Spirits. Ideally use an oil that is dissolved into the IPA/Mineral Spirits, if they settle into separate layers make sure you shake the mixture thoroughly before applying. Mix the oil and solvent in something like a dropper bottle or similar vessel for convenient application. Clean part with Fulgentin (Or general purpose cleaner of your choice) and wipe dry.,Apply oil/ipa mix to part and rub in lightly with clean microfiber cloth or shop towel. Use plenty of the mix, it should not feel dry.,Wipe with microfiber cloth after 15 minutes to get rid of any excess.,Do not apply any kind of wax (like Renessaince Wax) afterwards, from my testing it will bring back the haziness.
https://discord.com/channels/639936208734126107/639938269030907914/1302694827682697330
Pelicram's Shellac Rescue Formula aka The Cowboy's Delight.
This will help bring back a deeper black color shellaced panels which have been yellowed and damaged by UV over the years. With enough elbow grease it will remove the old shellac completely but it takes a very long time and you're likely to damage any decals present on the panel. In most cases the procedure described below will be sufficient to restore the appearance to an acceptable level.
The recipe: - 70% Light machine oil. - 30% IPA (Isopropyl Alcohol) or White/Mineral Spirits.
Ideally use an oil that is dissolved into the IPA/Mineral Spirits, if they settle into separate layers make sure you shake the mixture thoroughly before applying.
Mix the oil and solvent in something like a dropper bottle or similar vessel for convenient application.
- Clean part with Fulgentin (Or general purpose cleaner of your choice) and wipe dry.
- Apply oil/ipa mix to part and rub in lightly with clean microfiber cloth or shop towel. Use plenty of the mix, it should not feel dry.
- Wipe with microfiber cloth after 15 minutes to get rid of any excess.
- Do not apply any kind of wax (like Renessaince Wax) afterwards, from my testing it will bring back the haziness.
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https://discord.com/channels/639936208734126107/639938983220215828/1131197256691875881
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel S5, E2
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1oblfvo/service_booklet_2/
See also Google Drive document with details.
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typewriterdatabase.com typewriterdatabase.com
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Most of the slugs have a number 5 stamped on them
https://typewriterdatabase.com/1926-mercedes-4.19461.typewriter<br /> "Steile Sierschrift" (Steep ornamental font) <br /> RaRo foundry mark 5 circle I<br /> paired with<br /> RaRo foundry mark 57 AR
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https://typewriterdatabase.com/1926-mercedes-4.19461.typewriter via Kevin Stallaert
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Yellow painted machines like this one are often script. So there's a spotter's tip for you.
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site.xavier.edu site.xavier.edu
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Known historical users of the Royal KMM:<br /> - John Ashbery<br /> - Russell Baker - Ray Bradbury - Richard Brautigan - Richard Brooks - Pearl S. Buck<br /> - Johnny Carson (or possibly KMG) - Norman Corwin<br /> - Frank Herbert<br /> - Helen Keller<br /> - Murray Kempton<br /> - Ken Kesey<br /> - George Washington Lee - Harper Lee<br /> - Ursula K. LeGuin - David McCullough<br /> - Margaret Mead<br /> - Dorothy Paraker<br /> - Grantland Rice<br /> - Georges Simenon<br /> - Christina Stead<br /> - Tom Wolfe
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The Elusive Olympia SM6? The Missing Link? Or just a regular old SM2? - YouTube<br /> by [[HotRodTypewriter]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-26T16:16:00
Another version seen here: https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ognqwh/olympia_monica/ via u/jbhusker (who subsequently deleted his post and photos of the machine as well as the italic typeface)
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We're going back to the basics today for the non-technical people to explain “what is an “index” and why they are important to making your search engine work cost effectively at scale. Imagine you walked into a library back in the day before computers and asked the librarian to find you every book that mentioned the word "gazebo". You would probably get some pretty weird looks because it would be horribly inefficient for the librarian to go through every single book in the library to satisfy your obscure query. It would likely take months or even years to do a single query. Now imagine you asked them for every book in the library by “Hunter S Thompson”. That would be a piece of cake, but why? That’s because the library maintains an index of all the books that come in by title, author & etc. Each index is just a list of possible values that people would be searching for. In our example, the author index is an alphabetical list of author names and the specific book name/locations where you can find the whole book so you can get all the other information contained in the book. The index is built before any search is ever made. When a new book comes into the library the librarian breaks out those old index cards and adds it to the related indexes before the book ever hits the shelves. We do this same technique when working with data at scale. Let’s circle back to that first query for the word "gazebo". Why wouldn’t the library maintain an index for literally every word ever? Imagine a library filled with more index cards than books? It would be virtually unusable. Common words like the word “the” would likely contain the names of every book in the library rendering that index completely useless. I have seen databases where the indexes are twice the size of the data actually being indexed and it quickly has diminishing returns. It is a delicate balance for people like me to engineer these giant scalable search engines to walk to get the performance we need without flooding our virtual library (the database) with unneeded indexes.
via u/schematical at https://reddit.com/user/schematical/comments/1oe41bx/what_is_a_database_index_as_explained_to_a_1930s/
Perhaps it's a question of the "long search" versus the "short search"? Long searches with proper connecting tissue are more often the thing that produces innovation out of serendipity and this is the thing of greatest value versus "What time does the Superbowl start?". How do you build a database index to improve the "long search"?
See, for example Keith Thomas' problem: https://hyp.is/DFLyZljJEe2dD-t046xWvQ/www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n11/keith-thomas/diary
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