http://writingball.blogspot.com/2014/09/mystery-machine-specialized-lc-smith.html
see another potential example: https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1oincod/can_someone_tell_me_what_yearmodel_this_is/
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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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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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Downloadable versions of lots of spreads for the hipster PDA
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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!
reply to u/Obvious-Bug-5214 at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1or7eb6/no_1_keydoes_anybidy_miss_it/
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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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https://www.tickettailor.com/events/krishughes/1863126<br /> Otherworld Journeys<br /> Sat Nov 8, 2025 10:00 AM - Sat Dec 6, 2025 12:00 PM PST<br /> Online, Zoom
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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.
10:04 Typewriter key tops
13:20 typewriter brushes and cleaning products, blower brushes, typeslug cleaners,
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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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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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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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.
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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://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1oblfvo/service_booklet_2/
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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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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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in the twentieth century, society was supposed to be impersonal: lifewas organized by state bureaucracy, capitalist markets and scientificexperts. Not surprisingly most people felt estranged and powerless inthe face of all this.
Counter definition of human economy in the XXth century.
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In order to be human, the economy must be at leastfour things:1. It is made and remade by people; economics should be of prac-tical use to us all in our daily lives.2. It should address a great variety of particular situations in alltheir institutional complexity.3. It must be based on a more holistic conception of everyone’sneeds and interests.4. It has to address humanity as a whole and the world society weare making.
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For well over a century now,this discipline has called itself economics and its subject matter hasbeen the economic decisions made by individuals as participants inmarkets of many kinds. People as such play almost no part in thecalculations of economists and they find no particular reflection ofthemselves in the quantities published by the media. The economyis rather conceived of as an impersonal machine, remote from theeveryday experience of most people. The idea that we put forwardhere of a ‘human economy’ is intended to remind readers that theeconomy is made and remade by people in their everyday lives.
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It isimpossible any more to hold that economies will prosper only if mar-kets are freed from political bondage.
Evidence built for this assertion?
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Emergent world society is the new human universal
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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.
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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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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).
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Interview with Jennifer Smith Richards of ProPublica
Anti-DEI, Anti-CRT bills
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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,
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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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Typewriter Typebar Holding Rack by grifter7 - Thingiverse<br /> by [[grifter7]] on [[Thingiverse.com]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T10:26:22
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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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reply to u/warriorkitten18 at https://reddit.com/r/adhdwomen/comments/1mqzm12/index_card_system_please_discuss/
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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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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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).
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Prior [.pdf copy]9https://stevenson.ucsc.edu/academics/stevenson-college-core-courses/how-to-mark-a-book-1.pdf): - Annotations https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich?q=url%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fstevenson.ucsc.edu%2Facademics%2Fstevenson-college-core-courses%2Fhow-to-mark-a-book-1.pdf<br /> - Alternate annotation link https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?user=chrisaldrich&max=100&exactTagSearch=true&expanded=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fstevenson.ucsc.edu%2Facademics%2Fstevenson-college-core-courses%2Fhow-to-mark-a-book-1.pdf
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- 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.
See also the precursor of personal indexing which Mortimer J. Adler mentions in 1940: https://hypothes.is/a/cPcoAqhVEfC0rJOZ0Pm-8Q
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What’s Going On With Marjorie Taylor Greene?<br /> by [[Will Gottsegen]] - The Atlantic<br /> accessed on 2025-10-12T16:47:40
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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.
He finishes off with a small shot of Nu-trol, which is a degreaser with some lubrication, and then follows up with a shot of compressed air to thin it out.
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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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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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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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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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Introduction to Metric Spaces <br /> by [[Paige Bright]] via | Mathematics | MIT OpenCourseWare<br /> accessed on 2025-09-27T16:42:53
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Adler J3 Typewriter - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-27T15:42:43
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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Nakajima Daisywheel Typewriter Part 2 - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-27T15:15:18
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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Another problem with existing chunky levees is that they tend tohave zero-sum gotchas.
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reply to u/GrandRevolutionary99 at https://reddit.com/r/stationery/comments/1nrkuqf/i_need_help_to_create_my_own_letterhead_for_my/
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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RE: poor type quality on the "!" via u/TheGuyAtThePlace265 at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1no1whe/poor_definition_on/
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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