Currently in the earholes:
Fixin’ a grindy laptop optical drive on the $7 WinXP laptop
2023-01-27: Thriftin’ Report: $7 Laptop & Celtic Knot Stamps! Getting the optical drive out of an HP Pavilion dv4000 laptop Yup, that center spindle is certainly rubbing on the bent drive cover. Verrry carefully bend it back into shape. While we’ve got it open, let’s clean the lens and dust out the insides. The spex! […]
Correspondence: Episode 12 – Melinda Loves Roger
Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: JVC Types in SPACE!
Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call from Portugal!
And also this came in the mail – I wonder what it could be? Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Coffee, Tea or Microcassette? Why Not All Three? :D
Weapon of Choice: Mitsubishi Pencil Company Boxy 100 ballpoint pen. I love the size, flat sides and fine point, but it’s a little lightweight and I feel I write a little less readably when I look at the result. The pen itself looks very futuristic! The Booty! :D I had the Teeccino Maple Pecan, which […]
Mail Call with Hula Girl Collins Tumblers!
Weapon of Choice: “Little Jake” 1933 Monarch (Remington) Remie Scout Model #S73610 Currently in the earholes:
Compact Cassette Lows and Corona Highs
Sigh. It also ate the Larry P. “Witchita Lineman” tape. Luckily I had all that digitized, but I can’t rightly put a tape someone sends me in there. I need reliable non-destruction.. Currently in the earholes:
Latest Mail Call Forces Completion of Episode 11
Currently in the earholes:
ACCO “PressTex”, Franklin-Covey Classic and EDCN, Oh my!
Weapon of Choice: “Dr. Lizardo” 1973 IBM Selectric II #26 1220365 When I fill up the second EDCN Archive book, then I’ll switch to the A5 3-Ring binder for Archive Book #3, and by the time I fill that up, I should be out of 2-hole punched EDCN sheets and well into the FC “Classic” […]
Going With The Flow
Weapon of Choice: 1959 Smith Corona Skyriter #3Y 210063 Typewriter Club LIVE 2023-05-07: Heh, I just noticed on re-watching the TCL meetup that Brian G wore his Galactic Federation of Typewriter Repair Rangers shirt, but was working on his Panasonic folding record player. Franklin-Covey “Classic” hole puncher – at a thrift store near you! Two […]
Mail Call – New Cassette Deck? :D
Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call – One Letter To Save Us All
Currently in the earholes:
Finding the *right* ribbon for a machine
Weapon of Choice: 1959 Smith Corona Skyriter #3Y 210063 Weapon of Choice: “Einstein” 1956 Smith Corona Silent #5S 529594 When you have intact and still supple feet, but the bottoms are shiny and slippery, try sanding the shine off and enjoy fresh grippiness! The old glue on the typebar rest dried out, but that’s easily […]
A delightful Elite face Skyriter! :D
Weapon of Choice: 1959 Smith-Corona Skyriter #3Y210063 Actually, there is something(s) I need to do to this Skyriter, first, prepare for a BESTICKERING! (been savin’ up stickers for just this occasion) And clean that typeface out! Squirt, squirt, scrubby, scrubby… Mmmm, much better! Now we’re talkin”! :D Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call (finally!)
Weapon of Choice: “Little Jake” 1933 Monarch (Remington) Remie Scout Model #S73610 Currently in the earholes:
Got Them No-Mail Blues, and Other Desperate Tragedies.
Currently in the earholes:
What the Thrift Gods bring…
Franklin-Covey “Classic” 365 and EDCN Convergence
Note the difference in how each page works in the blog format. The FC365 probably reads best in a browser size where the images are sized at max 1000px wide size.
How to properly describe the condition of a typewriter.
An example of the sort of clarity that I think would be useful when refurbishers are “Reconditioning” typewriters is the issue of platens. I’ll say straight up that a typewriter is not “rebuilt” unless all the rubber bits have been replaced and the platen recovered. By “recovered” I mean the rubber covering of the platen […]
Rebuilding the Wilson-Jones “Hummer” Hole Puncher – Brand New Backstop Guides!
Weapon of Choice: newer Wilson-Jones Hummer set up as 2-Tower, 2-Backstop EDCN format puncher, Punching some new high-gloss KromeKote paper for EDCN testing… Now that I have one Hummer set up for EDCN use, I can combine parts from the two others to make another one. Unfortunately, I have no other original backstop brackets, but […]
The ABQ Gang Invades!
Joe & Ted @ The Drunk Munk (no relation) Tori & Ted, trying not to be annoyed at the live DJ playing completely inappropriate music for a Tiki Bar. Were it me, I’d be spinning Arthur Lyman, The Insect Surfers and Yma Sumac. Typewriter Club Live 2023-04-16 Weapon of Choice: Bill Wahl’s personal desktop SG-1 […]
A New Correspondent! :D
There’s Something About (this package from) Mary!
Report from Mary’s visit
Mail Call, and two pages of photos left to shoot!
Two more pages worth of detail photos to shoot, greyscale, annotate and place in the manuscript. The goal is to break up the pages of text with an equal number of facing illustrative photo pages, and occasionally include a few things not mentioned in the text. If nothing else, doing this is an excellent crash […]
Two Letters Stand Between The Universe and Nothingness…
Mmmmmmm, Tasty Tape
Weapon of Choice: “Thunderbird 2” 1968 Montgomery Ward Signature 440T #B8860433 Sony TCM-200DV Compact Cassette-Corder, Dual-speed with secondary speed control. Like Hainbach says, “Half Speed is Best Speed”
A Couple More Mail Calls!
Typospherian Meet-Up, Zephyr Secured and Mail Call
Antique Alphabet Stamping Set and EDCN Brian G of Buckeye! Mary E. Of MyOldTypewriter.com One of a handful of people who came in to MTE and were treated to an impromptu Typospherian Experience. Our Gang! I was curious to see if I could find replacement shell screws – to the parts manual! a 3-48 Binding […]
Rapid Fire Mail Call!
A Mail Call and a Collage
I’ve had a surplus of clippings from the things sent to me by mail in the back pocket of the EDCN, so I decided to make a collage. Also a test of a vertical fold-out page in EDCN format.
Update on the AI Thing; It’s’a Movin’ Real Fast… Also, Mail Call!
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.” – The Orange Catholic Bible Yeah, already here. A couple days ago I went through a drive-through and had my order taken perfectly by an AI through the voicebox radio in the drive-through line. The same voicebox that is crackly and renders […]
Silly Silent Shadowplays
UJTU Underwood Portables & etc.
La Corona
Weapon of Choice: “Indy” 1959 Tower Chieftain III #3YT167056