GENERAL CHANNEL TOPICS: Poetry, short writings, Short Stories, home videos, old movie projectors , Guitar Music, typewriters and their accessories, Antiques...other than that, really, just other random stuff that interests me enough to even want to record.
I wonder if you can modify your keytip tool by making an impression in a key using a thermoplastic like Polymorph or Instamorph, and fitting this over the top of the upper jaw. It would then press on the glass perfectly evenly and, being nylon like, would perhaps be a little gentler. I use Polymorph for all manner of custom applications, its very useful stuff!
Question: I got an olivetti lettera 36 electric from the thrift store. I cleaned it (alot of yellow oily gunk was inside). It works well. But I noticed when the motor is running for awhile I'll start to hear a strange squeaking sound coming from the motor area. Do you know what this might be? Does it perhaps need oil? If so, what kind of oil? And where do I apply the oil?
This was really helpful! Just removed the carriage. You didn't explain what to do with the drawstring, but I figured it out. I did a ton of cleaning. Now my worry is how to replace the drawstring!
So all the SC type bars are same, as long as I match type face? Do these electrics damage the type when they jam and strike each other? I’ve got what look like a damaged lower case r and c. Maybe k as well.
My favorite bike of his I have his others but not this one can’t never find one available I’d be happy with the bike by its self no box or charge 😂. Cool video bro
No matter how good this conversion is,the controls do feel awful those barrels just do roll fast like crazy and those fireballs to run like crazy,you have berally time to react,not mentioning the stiffy controller,how manytimes do i intend to hit up or hit down but accidentally do hit left or right,phew🤣
This is a long shot, but the This is a long shot but do you still have the carriage frame and ribbon holders? Ask I have been looking for a couple of parts for my Corona 3, of course I would pay you and the postage but if you see this, please let me know. Regards David
It will keep you busy sorting it out, we never used them, there is a much easier, faster and more accurate way to solder or re-solder, if you would like to know what we did and how we did it respond to me
This video will save me hours of labor. Just got a rusty but operable Underwood 5, escapement is slow, but now I know how to get at it for cleaning. Five ⭐️
Interesting observation about the foam sound-deadening panels…it was a cheapening of materials at the factory, I would imagine, but at least the manufacturer put the denser and better material on the back, where the carriage moves. Thanks for the video! I just acquired a pink & grey 1959(?) Futura 800, luckily it has the better-quality sound material. Cleaned and serviced it, but winding the drawband is a pain. Still, it’s a unique-looking, American-made machine, definitely worth restoring
Hi, I'm from south africa, I've got an eiki 16mm projector and it's missing all the belts, or spring belts if that's what they're called, and I'm hoping you can possibly help me by telling me what belts I actually will need etc, my only problem is that there are no places in my country that I can find that stock these types of things, the projector itself is in pretty decent condition, the globes are still great, but I honestly don't have a clue what I'm doing so any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you
Thank you for posting this video that covers the differences between different versions of the Underwood No. 5 typewriter. I was struggling with the Variable Line Space Mechanism on my 1924 Underwood No. 5 machine. I recently removed the cracked platen and the flattened feed rollers for recovering, and during the process, the 'Variable Line Space Mechanism' came apart in my hands. I managed to reassemble it, but its adjustment was difficult for me, as I didn't know how it is supposed to function. Very early in your video, you explain it's use very clearly, and then 'the light came on' for me 👍. Needless to say, you now have another subscriber! 😉
Wow! Thank you! I just got out an old manual typewriter that was my Brothers. Its been in storage for over 30 yrs. I learned to type on an electric typewriter, so using the manual is a little different for me. I have to press much harder on the keys. In my daily life, (when emailing or texting), I use a lot of exclamation points! Lol so when I couldn’t find one, I was like…how am I going to handle this? Lol. I told my husband who is at work, and he sent me your video! So now I am good to go! Thank you.
The issue is that people are seeing the "RCA" jack at the end of the output cable on the VCS/2600 and think it's a composite cable, and it's an "RCA" RF meant to connect to one of those Antenna/Game switch boxes. So those people hook it up to the composite in on the TV and they wonder why it doesn't work not knowing it's supposed to be connected to the coax/cable/antenna input, but it doesn't fit as it's a different connector. They ask other people and those people don't fully know either figuring you're talking about a more modern console that has composite output and direct you to those RCA to HDMI converter boxes, the people hook it all up and they wonder why it's not working. But in reality modern TVs just do not handle the video output of an older console well. I mean they usually display it when hooked up properly, it just looks like crap, as it does with my VCS/2600 hooked up to my 55" Sony x900h, it displays but just looks like garbage. I'm going to be doing the video mod on my VCS/2600 sometime, and installing the refresh kit in it.
Are you still around bro I gotta replace a ribbon vibrator on a portable 3 1931 I got the replacement I just don’t know how would you say it’s possible to do or ?
Great. But the fact is, there's not a million of these out there, let alone people even having one, let with instructions. I'm no actor or professional and don't get paid to do this stuff. The video you really saw was a 40+ year-old working man who, at that time, had just moved back into his Dad's house after getting his (that being me, incase you missed it) second unwanted divorce from someone he loved, but she suddenly decided to off and leave for another... So, you're welcome! And I Hope you NEVER get the blues and do something (like put a film on RU-vid) to just keep an active life.
Ken Litton made a foray into the office machines field, they had Royal, Imperial ,Adler for a little while Monroe Sweda, Dictaphone, they all finished up being liquidated. The binding carriage is probably a machine that has been dropped
Ken, just put the micrometre over both and see if the diameter is the same, some old machines have had their platens turned down, who knows how many times and who did it
Ken, for what it's worth try working with 7-8-10 inch screw drivers. I think it's Utica make a needle nose plier with long handles like the duck bills, they make work a lot easier because you can see what you are doing
You might find it surprising, but as a guy I put myself through a decade of college in the seventies, production typing on various IBM word processors (MT/ST, Memory Typewriter, MC I and MC II, E-60). At least in Houston, where I lived, there were a fair number of other men doing the same thing. I could maintain over 120wpm for at least 8 hours at a stretch, and as we were medical typing specialists, could easily top $20/hour back then. Sometimes I'd do freelance work on weekends and could pull $1000 or so on a Saturday or Sunday. Got out of it after college but still remember it well. My friends say I play the typewriter like a piano and I'll still sit in my study at times just typing whatever. Cool film from when I was a junior in high school!
I learned to type as a little boy at age six in 1961 on my parents' Underwood 5, fortunately in great shape. My little hands weren't strong enough to lift the carriage shift with my pinkies, had to use my index and middle fingers. Today, at sixty-six, I own a 1939 World's Fair Underwood S, restored, and still love just sitting at it banging out words in Elite type...
