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I am sure that I will be able to find a good home for it. It’s a sweet little thing and types just beautifully. I will need to carefully bend the return lever up a bit before it starts getting scratches on the ribbon cover. I found the typewriter upside down in its case at the thrift store, so I can see how the lever could get mashed down. The carriage return lever is bent down and just lightly scrapes the top of the ribbon cover. What a nice little typewriter! I need to finish cleaning the shell and the type slugs. The moral of this story: sometimes you have to figure out how something works so that you clean in an effective way. So easy!Īll better now: Formerly crazed $10 thrift store SCM Coronet Electric typing happily in the workshop #typewriter #typewriterrepair #smithcoronatypewriter #electrictypewriterĪ post shared by Mary E on at 5:00pm PDT

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Fortunately, Joe Van Cleave has a great video on a manual Galaxy 12 (a non-electric twin of my two-tone Coronet) and at around the 10:02 minute mark, Joe describes how to pop out the platen. I couldn’t see very well and decided to pop out the platen. I read through the troubleshooting section of the manual and wondered if the escapement pinion gear was meshing properly with the rack. I figured that it was an escapement problem since that’s what most internet resources point to when a carriage is wayward.

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He has archived a whole collection of typewriter repair manuals at TWDB Operation OOPRAP.

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I needed to bring in the big guns, so I downloaded Ted Munk’s Smith Corona 6 & 8 Series Electric & Cartridge Ribbon Typewriter Repair Manual: I then doused the area with PB B’laster and followed up with denatured alcohol. I doused the area with mineral spirits and worked the parts with my fingers. The escapement on this Smith-Corona is very accessible. Fortunately it fixed the sliding carriage right off the bat. I simply cleaned and lubricated in an area where an escapement *might* be and hoped for the best. The Lettera 22’s escapement is either buried or weird looking because I didn’t immediately spot anything familiar. The Lettera 22 I brought home recently had a similar sliding carriage problem which was solved by cleaning of the escapement area. I then turned my attention to the slippy and sliding carriage that wouldn’t “catch”. I flipped the machine over and hurray, no more haunted typing. I found its linkage underneath and cleaned and cleaned and eventually it came free. I went through the whole row of linkages and levers and cleaned and tested each with my fingers.įrom the top, on the keyboard, the letter “B” was immobile.

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Testing them with my finger I found them to be stiff and gummy, so I cleaned carefully with mineral spirits and manually worked them with my fingers to free them up. These linkages and levers should all be standing at a attention in a row like little soldiers. I immediately saw a problem area in the levers and linkages under the keys: It even has a manual carriage return, so no complicated carriage return clutch to deal with. I confess that I am not 100% comfortable with most electric typewriters, but this Coronet looks just like a manual typewriter with a small motor. I took it home, removed the bottom plate (two screws) and blew out the dust and dirt in the guts. I felt confident that I could fix the haunted typing issue and had a pretty good idea of what might be wrong with the carriage that wouldn’t catch. I figured the Coronet was worth $10 just for the fun. Another #typewriterrepairĪ post shared by Mary E on at 5:43pm PDT Instead we ascended to high flattish-lumpy desert that got progressively more barren as we climbed.Ī haunted Smith-Corona Electra 210 with mysteriously repeating '5' key. That’s the only time we saw snow covered peaks all day. See those snow covered peaks way off in the distance? Those are the Rocky Mountains. “YOU KIDS: GET OUT OF THE TRAFFIC,” I yelled. I took the opportunity to yell at some unsupervised kids who were playing in traffic in front of Goodwill. My daughter and I then walked next door to see if there was anything at Goodwill. He wished he could sell it to me but he didn’t have it at the store.Īnother gentleman in the store told me he had three typewriters, but they were in west Laramie and would I like to come see them? I thanked him and told him no, we were just passing through. He had an old black Underwood (very heavy) at home that was broken that he couldn’t sell. They rarely got them and the big ones were hard to sell. The gentlemen at the counter seemed bemused when I asked about typewriters.

It was huge (almost as big as Bart’s) and packed with interesting stuff. SALS was conveniently located next to a Goodwill.

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