https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1j99oo7/unknown_piece_in_typewriter/

Needle cap?

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1j7jv3x/things_found_inside_a_typewriter/

via u/NisKildegaard:

Bobby pins, staples, safety pins, paper clips ... Postage stamps, coins... Pencils and erasers... Notes, business cards, shopping lists... A dental X-ray -- I think it was a molar. And the other week, a firecracker. One machine I bought for a bargain price, listed as parts/repair, turned out to be nonfunctional because a toothbrush was stuck inside the mechanism. I'm guessing it was originally intended as a cleaning tool, but ended up gumming the works entirely.

Cleaning with Air Compressors (testing portable air compressors) by [[Just My Typewriter]]

Sarah Everett uses: - Porter Cable portable air compressor (loud, high powered) - Uses smaller USB chargeable one for smaller jobs: PeroBuno mini car vacuum and compressor with attachments

"With Republicans every accusation is a confession."<br /> 05:02

Sarah Everett recommends the Vogma air duster / air compressor for cleaning out her typewriters. https://amzn.to/3FjqZ76

How to Clean a Typewriter (Apartment Friendly Guide!) by [[Just My Typewriter]]

Remington 5: Learning how to replace feed rollers by [[Just My Typewriter]]

The Texas Bucket List - The Typewriter Repairman

Cool Spaces: A shop from another era

The Apothecary's Typewriter by Scott K on 2012-12-14

https://www.ebay.com/itm/396260578400

22 drawer card file cabinet 2x11 for auction with a buy it now for $2,500. from West Chester, Pennsylvania,

Cost per drawer: $113

https://online.paideiainstitute.org/product/living-latin/

12 Days of Celtic Mythology - Season 3 by Kris Hughes https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvCdDm0wPhA2bIE8gcOT7W_uYljmLStyy

He Gave a Name to What Many Christians Feel by [[Ruth Graham]], [[Madeleine Hordinski]]

Especially if those who hold all the power and wealth aren't limited (by societal constructs or governmental regulations meant to prevent damage to the lest among us).

Yet, somehow it's the Christian Right that's voting for Trump?! How is this an argument? It's not for the liberals to make a critique of something the Christian Right should be doing better at.

Why care unless you're only after the power and the religion is a secondary thing?

Influence of Taleb on a certain flavor of white guy. in America.

An evangelical saying that what the church is telling guys is "just wrong"?!? This requires some self-reflection on the part of the speaker...

I'm curious what is the right thing in his framing?

I'm curious why he should be doing this? Is he anti-woman? Is he irked that women now have some power and autonomy? He apparently writes a lot about masculinity according to earlier in the article. Is masculinity only defined in contrast with femininity and control over the feminine?

What about Gods design that women should be equals? Link to Genesis story about not naming the woman until after the trouble.

Perhaps it's the creation of a myth whereby a Christian can break the Golden Rule, but still want the power and respect that their religion previously gave them that is causing the friction that modern Christians might be seeing?

Can it really be "Christian persecution" if they're not really Christ-ians?

Why can't Renn point to a more specific issue that actually impacts Christianity directly? How someone else chooses to identify and live, particularly people who are frequently Christian, shouldn't effect Christians in the sort of way he's proposing.

Besides "power over" others, what sort of Christianity is he really espousing? Where is the "love your neighbor?" or "do unto others?" in his religion?

When ideas have sex by [[Matt Ridley]] for TED Global 2010

Watched ages ago...

alternate: https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex

Mutual Aid by Dean Spade

Recommended by Lisa Moison and seconded by Karen Costa

Honouring Amaethon on Plough Monday? by [[Kris Hughes]]

Similar tradition to Mari Lwyd, though a month later with a plough instead of a horse skull.... potential connection here.

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-memex-method-238c71f2fb46

Original version (or owned copy) at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/

method and madness by [[Alan Jacobs]]

via In which I describe my writing “methods." by [[Alan Jacobs]]

reply:

@ayjay Thanks for sharing this. My method is often very much like yours. Lots of internal distillation, slowly over time. I remember hearing a story that Mozart wrote music "like a cow pees" (in one giant and immediate flood and then done). I feel like large works of writing, composing, etc. springing, as if fully formed from the head of Zeus is more common than is acknowledged. Cory Doctorow hints at a similar sort of method in his own work in The Memex Method. I'm also reminded of bits of what neuroscientist Barbara Oakley calls "diffuse thinking" or a more internalized version of Michael Ondaatje's "thinkering" described in The English Patient.

Given Wilkerson's introductory chapters on knowing and understanding history, I'm heavily disappointed this is the singular reference in the book to "The Great Chain of Being". It's not even indexed in the end.

The underlying idea of the scala naturae across a huge swath of western history is really the thing that gives rise to the problems of American history which she is attempting to bring to life here. Missing this part of the bigger picture is a serious flaw.

Does she skirt it rhetorically so as not to give fuel to the idea that "this is how things have always been?" arguments?

see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being

Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. 1st ed. 2020. Reprint, New York: Random House, 2023. https://amzn.to/40KnGyB.

How to Spot Autism in High-Masking Adults by [[Chris and Debby]]

How I display my typewriters (and a Q&A) by [[Just My Typewriter]]

Sarah uses WD-40 on the black enamel of older 20s-30s era typewriters to clean and polish them.

For those who have an Underwood 5 typewriter as featured in the movie Finding Forrester (Columbia Pictures, 2000), it bears saying that Forrester (Sean Connery) would admonish you to:

Punch the keys, for God's sake!

reply to u/bethcano at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1j3z646/whats_a_fair_price_these_days_for_a_hermes_3000/

In the US I've been seeing them go for around $250 based only on photos without any additional information about whether they work or other condition.

Platforms like eBay and ShopGoodwill.com will allow you to search for actual sales (see the advanced settings) and this will give you a much better picture of what the prices are versus people listing them for several hundred more (usually to match the prices of professional shops that are listing theirs in cleaned, oiled, and adjusted condition). (Remember when shopping: Condition is king!)

See:

• https://shopgoodwill.com/categories/listing?st=hermes%20typewriter&sg=&c=&s=&lp=0&hp=999999&sbn=&spo=false&snpo=false&socs=false&sd=false&sca=true&caed=3%2F5%2F2025&cadb=90&scs=false&sis=false&col=1&p=1&ps=40&desc=false&ss=0&UseBuyerPrefs=true&sus=true&cln=1&catIds=&pn=&wc=false&mci=false&hmt=false&layout=grid&ihp=
• https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=hermes+3000+typewriter&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1

Keep in mind that prices may be dramatically different in your country based on how ubiquitous they were when they were originally manufactured.

Expect to add $150-200+ for script or rarer typefaces, and another \~$150 if the platen has been recovered.

$550 would not be uncommon if purchasing a pica or elite Hermes 3000 with a standard typeface in generally good cosmetic shape that's been professionally cleaned, oiled, and adjusted by a shop.

https://www.ebay.com/usr/thakseman1

thakseman1

Anne-Laure Le Cunff - How to Design Tiny Experiments Like a Scientist ‪@neuranne‬

• generation effect
• definitions of success: did you learn something new as a mode for preventing failure (-10:00)
• curiosity as motivation (-12:30)
• George R. R. Martin's essay on "architects and gardeners" (and librarians) (and students (via Tiago Forte)).
• did they miss the prior versions of gardening?

• Pareto principle for 80% gardener and 20% architect

• ME: reading fiction can be used as a means of diffuse thinking in combination with combinatorial creativity

Generation effect

The generation effect is a phenomenon whereby information is better remembered if it is generated from one's own mind rather than simply read.

Local writers host ‘typewriter revivals’ by [[Algernon D'Ammassa Las Cruces Bulletin]]

RARE Japanese Toshiba Typewriter by [[Typewriter Collector]] David Herrera

Apps, E. A. “Typewriter Inks.” In Inks for the Minor Printing Processes and Specialised Applications, p218-221 of xix, 295. 1963. Reprint, London: Hill, 1966. http://archive.org/details/typewriter-inks.

T.H. Dixon & Co. Ltd. manufactured machines for typewriter ribbon processing and had a method for spraying a coating to the edges of ribbons in a special chamber to prevent the edges of the ribbon from fraying. (p219)

Center lining machines are used to make bichrome typewriter ribbon. It operates by drawing an insulating line on the ribbon and transparent gum solution is pumped through a needle using pneumatic pressure to keep the two colors from running into each other.

Typewriter ribbon can be inked in four different configurations: - impregnated throughout - surface treatment - inked on one side only - inked on both sides, usually simultaneously

https://app.gonitro.com/

https://www.gonitro.com/installers/nls/v14/msi/download

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38178621

https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1j1zm4z/easy_out_typewriter_tool/

Apparently for "pulling out typebars when they get stuck"??

r/sk8cruz = LaDonna Qualtieri https://typewriterdatabase.com/typewriters.php?hunter_search=6493&collection_search=My+Collection

How a Mechanical Typewriter Works by [[Animagraffs]]

Typewriter Video Series - Episode 74: Choosing Typewriter Bags by [[Joe Van Cleave]]

Looks like Peter Elbow used an early IBM Selectric I

Rosenwald, Michael S. “Peter Elbow, Professor Who Transformed Freshman Comp, Dies at 89.” The New York Times, February 27, 2025, sec. Education. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/education/peter-elbow-dead.html.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/System/sjnnAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=typewriter&pg=PA763&printsec=frontcover

System, the Magazine of Business, volume XLII, Number 6(?), December 1922, p763 an advertisement for the Memindex

https://www.google.com/books/edition/System/sjnnAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=typewriter&pg=PA536&printsec=frontcover

There was no office machinery at all–the typewriter was known but scarcely used. Even telephones were rarities. The card index, the filing cabinet, the loose-leaf ledger were all but unknown. Of course there were no calculating machines.

System, the Magazine of Business, volume XLII, Number 5, November 1922, p536, "What 55 Years in Business Taught Me About Managing: The first installment of the biography of John H. Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register Company and Lately Chairman of the Board" by Samuel Crowther.

Correcting Bad Typing Habits with the Smith Corona Electric Typewriter 63024 by [[PeriscopeFilm]]

Motion should happen only at the level of the fingers and not at the wrist or even the arms. Type only with your fingers and not your wrists or arms.

Allow the carriage to glide to complete the carriage return rather than wasting addition time and energy on pushing it all the way. Let the momentum do the work.

Use the paper release when removing letters to reduce wear on your rollers and prevent ripping of the paper.

See also at https://stock.periscopefilm.com/63024-correcting-bad-typing-habits-with-the-smith-corona-electric-typewriter/

Drop the paper into the top of the platen and against the paper guide to improve alignment can save time.

Setting the right hand margin will help save huge amounts of time from the transcriptionist looking back and forth to get proper margins otherwise.

Using correct typing for numerals will speed up typing numbers as well.

For the top tabulator, use your index fingers alternately instead of hitting it with your entire hand.

Hugging the keys with your fingers allows you to type faster, much like a drummer keeps the sticks closer to the drumhead when drumming quickly.

Smith Corona Manual Typewriter Shift Lock Adjustment Latch Repair Upper Case Letters by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]

Olympia SM-3 Vintage Typewriter, Repaired Adjusted Shift Lock by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]

Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals, and Cooperstown: A Baseball Memoir by Bill Madden<br /> Release date: April 1, 2025 (hardcover)

https://www.gates.com/us/en.html

Sells belts including v-belts which might be used for typewriter repair parts.

January 2025 Update by [[Joe Van Cleave]]

Joe is recovering from hip surgery in January 2025.

The Hermes 3000 repair manual has a really good section on type alignment including tools, according to Joe Van Cleave. (9:17)

For the Electra Series of Smith-Corona typewriters, the Electra 120 and 220 had 12" platens while the Electra 110 and 210 had 10" platens. Similarly the 110 and 120 had manual carriage returns while the 210 and 220 had automatic carriage returns. (00:53)

Jeweled main bearing on the escapement is what Smith-Corona is talking about in their branded "Jeweled escapements". (2:26)

Smith-Corona electric typewriters were designed to be turned on and run all day. As a result, old machines which have v-belts with odd grooves in them from sitting so long will sometimes have a recurring thump sound. This can be remedied by running the machine for several hours at which point the belt will warm up and remove the crease. Naturally, one might also remove the belt, warm it up using other means as a method of removing age-related creasing.

Smith-Corona Electra 220 Typewriter Review by [[Joe Van Cleave]]

Some details about the internal motor workings of SCM electric typewriters.

Creating on Small Typewriters by [[Joe Van Cleave]]

Portable typewriters give up a level of professionalism in one's documents for their size and ease of portability.

In particular, the slug alignments may be slightly off compared to larger machines. Ideally they allow for one to be good enough, especially for first draft documents or journaling.

Typewriter Strike Out Corrections by [[Joe Van Cleave]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ixht52/how_can_i_make_a_typewriter_eraser_like_this_have/

Back in the day people used custom erasers for erasing. They were much harder than the softer erasers in use now, which is why modern pencil and art erasers don't work as well. For some historical methods, see these videos or here.

Secretaries also used small eraser shields to target individual letters, words, or lines. They also used larger curved shields for erasing within carbon copy packs.

Eaton used to make Ko-rec-type tabs which could be inserted for short corrections and it can still be found online as old stock.

There was also bichrome ribbon with white correction tape, but that tends to fleck off and make a mess in your machine over time. Similarly White Out is still made, but it can spill and make a mess while you wait for it to dry.

For modern typists, hand-held correction tape is probably the quickest and easiest.

This could be expanded for the widest range of history on erasing using typewriters with caveats, etc.

reply to u/Fearless_Camera_1788 at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ixmz88/how_to_erase/

Remington Rand KMC Standard Typewriter, Ring Style, Noiseless, 1/2", Install, Replace Ink Ribbon by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]

Without the Remington ribbon rings, one can utilize the slots in coordination with grommets to thread up a Remington typewriter.

Remington Standard Typewriter KMC , model 17, How to Change and Set Margin Stops, Demo<br /> by [[Phoenix Typewriter]]

Identifying My Remington Rand Typewriter

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/flgb82/identifying_typewriters_in_the_film_all_the/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074119/

reply to u/Pope_Shady at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1iwrlij/highest_price_youd_spend/

Generally my cap for typewriter purchases is in the $20-35 range. Most of my favorite machines (the standards) were acquired for $5-10 and they're so much better than the portables. At these prices I'm not too worried about the level of work required. I regularly spend 3-4 times more money on a full reel of bulk typewriter ribbon than I do on a typical typewriter.

A few of my more expensive acquisitions: * I went as high as $100 on a machine (including shipping) to get a Royal Quiet De Luxe with a Vogue typeface that turned out to be in about as stunning a condition as one could hope for. * I went to $130 on an Olympia SM3 in part for it's Congress elite typeface as well as an uncommon set of mathematical characters. I'm sure I could have gotten it for significantly less, but wanted to help out the seller and it was in solid condition except for worn bushings. * I also went to around $150 for an (uncommon in the US) early 30's Orga Privat 5 that was in solid shape. I've yet to run into another Orga in the wild in the US since.

It also bears saying that I don't mind buying "barn machines" as a large portion of the fun in collecting for me is cleaning, adjusting, and restoring them to full functionality. I've been dissapointed once to have bought a Remington Quiet-Riter once for $10 only to discover it was in near mint condition and didn't need any work at all.

I am at the point where I'm going to need to start selling machines, work at a local shop, or start my own shop if I'm going to keep up with the "hobby" and maintain a sane spouse simultaneously. If I didn't enjoy wrenching on machines so much, I would definitely be buying them from local shops for significantly more money, and I'd probably have far fewer.

It's not talked about in great length in some typewriter collector spaces, but I think some of the general pricing "game", beyond just getting a "deal", is the answer to the questions: "What am I into this space for anyway? What makes it fun and interesting?" If you don't have the time, talent, tools, or inclination to do your own cleaning and restoration work, then paying $300-$600 for a nice machine in exceptional clean/restored condition from a shop is a totally valid choice and shouldn't be dismissed. Some are in it for the discussions of typewriters. Some are in it for the bargain hunt. Some just want to write. Some want rare gems. Some want common machines from famous writers. Others just want one "good" machine while others want all the machines. It's a multi-faceted space.

https://www.vescovorestauri.it/

Alessio Vescovo looks like he does typewriter restoration and recovers platens in Europe (Italy) as well: https://www.vescovorestauri.it/laboratorio/european-typewriter-platen-recovery-service/

Found via https://typewriterdatabase.com/1956-underwood-de-luxe.24945.typewriter

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Landmesser

Why Are Some Of Our Most Successful Leaders Mentally Ill? by [[Ian Leslie]]

suggested by ES

Fits into an earlier theory about insane leaders... where's the source?

direct source for this?

Where Have I Been? Antinet Updates & Insights From the Analog World by [[Scott P. Scheper]]

He is definitely not making this much from his book... subsequent to his book perhaps, but it would be a NY Times best seller if it were doing theses sorts of numbers by itself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1iv0rcz/what_is_dorothy_typing_on_in_this_1992_golden/

https://www.maggiedelano.com/garden/syntopical-reading-in-roam by Maggie Delano

https://www.maggiedelano.com/garden/obsidian-vs-roam-for-running-book-clubs by Maggie Delano

Which states get more federal money than they send by [[Alex Fitzpatrick]] for Axios

via 2024 Rockefeller Institute of Government

Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump by [[Isabel van Brugen]]

It’s time for Americans to withhold their taxes by [[Judith Levine]]

‘Very, Very Bad’: Ex-Government Economist Makes Bleakest Trump Prediction by [[Lee Moran]]

Typewriter Algebra by [[Joe Van Cleave]]

via https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1iucu6i/you_guys_wouldnt_know_what_typewriter_is_used_in/

reply to u/Sept-27 at https://old.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1itbduv/how_to_begin_storytelling_with_smart_notes/

Ahrens' book will likely leave you with more questions than answers and really has nothing directly to say on the practice of fictional storytelling. Doto's book does a better job of filling in these pieces but approaches writing in general rather than specifically fiction.

For fiction writers, I often recommend they don't practice putting Luhmann-artig numbers on their cards, but organize them in a more impromptu manner and allow them to shift more as you write. This allows things to shift more easily during the process and provides for a bit more creativity.

Some resources and examples for fiction with a ZK:<br /> - Vladimir Nabokov - David Lynch - take particular note of his method taught by Frank Daniel at AFI - Dustin Lance Black - Card index for fiction writing - The Zettelkasten Method for Fiction Writing

Take the inspiration these suggest, but don't go down the rabbit hole too deeply. You're going to want to evolve something that works best for you and your modes of writing, so trying to imitate someone else's system too closely will be the kiss of death.

EACH NOTE CARD SHOULD BE AS PURE AND SINGULAR AN IDEA AS POSSIBLE, BECAUSE I WANT TO BE ABLE TO MOVE ALL THE PIECES AROUND

This quote speaks to the general idea of "atomic notes" or note size and why they should be small.

It also osculates David Lynch's idea of holding onto the essence of an idea within a story. It's almost as if the adage "take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves" were applied to the fiction writing process. If you're careful with the small pieces, the bigger piece has a stronger chance of having more authenticity.

https://www.catawiki.com/en/s?q=typewriter

https://www.ebay.com/itm/276799504311

Two 3x5 sections of 15 drawers each for a total of 30 along with a section that has 2 writing drawers along with a top and a table leg section listed in December 2024/January 2025 for $3000 with a buy now of $5000.

Free pick up in Oconee, Illinois

cost per drawer: $100

Relistings: - https://www.ebay.com/itm/276808448650 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/276816845128 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/276825363082 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/286289360862 - etc...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296915539728

3x5 sectional with legs in dark stain listed in January 2025 for $1500 OBO

Free pick up in Glendale, AZ

Cost per drawer: $100

Everything is a Remix by [[Kirby Ferguson]]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SiyrXahjvFahDuA060P487pV

Brother AX-350 by [[Sam Christy]]

The Texting Typewriter (hardware) by [[Sam Christy]]

https://hackaday.com/2024/12/18/back-to-the-future-of-texting-sms-on-a-panasonic-typewriter/

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Girls-Guide-Murder/dp/1984896369

Typewriter Market: It may be better if you didn't get an Olympia SM3 typewriter today.

I'm not out to shame people for their purchases, just to caution uninitiated typewriter purchasers and budding collectors who aren't carefully watching the market.

Olympia SM3s are well-touted and excellent typewriters. They've recently been selling on ShopGoodwill in unknown condition for $120-150 based only on photos.

Earlier today, an Olympia SM3 sold for $334! So what gives? Why did this go for over twice as much as the average? To the uninitiated, the seasoned collector can look at this machine carefully and realize that even without seeing a type sample or a close up photo of the slugs that this machine is quietly hiding a script typeface of some kind. This means that two bidders would have paid an almost $200 premium for a script typeface, and one of them managed to snipe it for $1 with minutes left. Generally I see script machines going for $100-150 over similar machines without script.

Sadly, the high price on this machine earlier in the day may have suckered others into thinking these machines are significantly more valuable as it seems two other Olympia SM3s right after it both went for:<br /> * $202.03 https://shopgoodwill.com/item/222707079 * $202.03 https://shopgoodwill.com/item/222546519

And they were bid over 200 by the same two people while the "smarter" money stopped with bids at $137 on both.

Of course, neither of these later two machines have a script face, but at least two bidders were potentially reeled in by the much higher sales price of the script machine earlier in the day. This means that they've overpayed at least $50 above market for each, possibly thinking that they may have gotten a great deal. Sadly they didn't, they just overpayed the market average. The person who was sniped on both managed to save themselves $100+ today because I imagine they'll be able to get equivalent machines in the coming month for closer to under $150.

Incidentally another later Olympia portable (usually in the $75-120 range) earlier in the day went for a more reasonable $232 with a stated/photographed cursive typeface: https://shopgoodwill.com/item/222546740 This one was a stronger deal in the current market as they only paid about $110 above average for that machine to get the script typeface. The tough part is that because the description stated "cursive", they didn't have the benefit of possibly picking up a script machine with less competition.

While this is an interesting microcosm example of the current (overheated?) typewriter market (at least in the US), I hope all the buyers of these machines enjoy their purchases. If they're your first Olympias, and they need some work to get back to fighting shape, I've put together a guide: https://boffosocko.com/2024/07/14/aggregated-resources-and-playlist-for-a-crash-course-on-the-olympia-sm3-portable-typewriter/

syndication link

via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1iqn5hs/comment/mdakb8r/

Just craft/tacky glue. I painted the machine with the glue and applied the fabric.

via https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ir50gz/i_covered_a_typewriter_in_fabric_not_sure_how_you/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050307/quotes

https://www.youtube.com/c/ScorpioMartianus/playlists