This is just what I needed, thank you!

Trouble shooting question: on my Olivetti Lettera 32 the right knob won't come off, even with the right size Allen wrench. i've tried drilling through the little screw but it won't budge. The machine is missing a lot of pieces so I don't mind loosing a few more, but I can't get past that one little bit holding the knob in place. Any suggestions?

Trouble shooting question: on my Olivetti Lettera 32 the right knob won't come off, even with the right size Allen wrench. i've tried drilling through the little screw but it won't budge. The machine is missing a lot of pieces so I don't mind loosing a few more, but I can't get past that one little bit holding the knob in place. Any suggestions?

Sweet! On machines with multiple coats like this, are you stripping them all down to bare metal first?

Great video, and I know it's a bit old at this point, so I hope you get this note: I have two SM-9 wide carriage models. The 1974 works flawlessly, very smooth ands the action is crisp and light. We just picked up a similar machine from 1976. The latter machine is sluggish in its action, and there seems to be a slight hesitation with every key-stroke, as if I'm fighting the machine. It tales far more effort to type than the 1974 machine. The 1976 was from an estate sale, and had a correcting ribbon installed which allowed that white dust to get everywhere. I've flushed and flushed and lightly lubricated the carriage rails, and the mechanism still seems slow. Thoughts?

That is a rad f*cking finish!

I have one of these and the type bars won't hit the platen fully. Did you ever have this issue with them?

Where do you get replacent parts?

Thanks for the video, very helpful.

And I do have a former student who works at NASA as an engineer. I might send it to him.

And if you know a source for that lever assembly part, please let me know. I may want to torture myself with repairing this thing, because I have a 1950 model in otherwise good shape (except for the typical sticking, carriage shooting left, stuck parts...)

Well, wouldn't you know it. I just picked up a 22 paperweight, because it's missing the carriage return arm. But I only got it for $40, and I'm refurbishing another 22, so hopefully the parts will come in handy. Thank you for sharing excellent information on repairing these machines.

mindblowing f*ing awesome! 🤩

the complexity of the carriage shift adjustment on the SM1-7 is at least one point where the SM9 is the superior design

Large Pica is my favorite of all the Olympia typefaces. I have it on an SG1, 13" carriage

Love it ❤

That's an amazing finish! (:

I just bought one and you’ve answered a lot of questions about the controls. Thanks!

That wrench is bitchin, didn’t know they existed.

Great method! Work went flaweselly. My Łucznik 1303 [which I found at dumpster], after CLA and switch for QWERTY now works like a charm! For shims I used some brass gills from some broken praktica. Cheers!

Just to be clear - this is the same company. Facit bought Halda in the 30s, but kept the name "Halda" on typewriters until 1957. The first Facit TP1s had green Halda style keys. :)

Could you make a video of how you prep and clean typewriters in the ultrasonic machine?

Thanks so much for this video! Mine is a glossy hunter green Erika 10 from Turkey I love & adore but wonder what's best for cleaning & protecting a high gloss painted finish?? As Daniel Marleau said on Typewriter Review of this model, "It has the precise German engineering of an Olympia, the design flair of the Swiss Hermes and the simplicity of the All-American Smith-Corona."

Where did the keys come from?>

Wow, amazing job, Nice paint, I am imressed. Good job.!!!!!!!!!!!

There doesn't seem to be such a trick for lighter key action on the SM9, is it?

That typewriter even gives a Roman salute!

hello i want to ask what i should do if my olympia SM4 have some visible colour changing and i think that it made wiht permament marker what i should do to remove that colour mismatch ??????

Thanks Gerren! Spent half an hour trying to get this spring on. Should have come here first. Love your work! Thanks for these helpful videos. Hoping to talk to you in the future about a customized Cursive SM3 or SM4. (Coca Cola themed). Greetings from Surrey, BC.

Hello, I'm so glad I came across your video. I was given this exact machine by a friend that had no interest in it. It was given to him by a realtor friend from a person's estate. I've done every possible search I can come up with it's model and history etc. I cannot find any user manual info which makes sense, since there was no internet to store such a thing. I was wondering if you know what the little +/- button on the bottom right is for? I've ordered some new ribbon and a can of air to spray it out. It appears full functional so far and in great condition. If you have any advice on resources, I would be grateful. I will have to figure most of it out on my own, how to use all the functions. You are the only one i've come across to have the exact model i've acquired. Thanks for the video!(s)

Thank you, I really enjoy watching your videos and you make it so easy to understand 👍🏻

Do you have any tips for fixing the paper support at 0:29? Mine is sticking and I am trying to bend it but failing. Should I disassemble it and pull it out for this?

Is it for sale?

Two bearings, each alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we set our scene...

Really helpful, thank you. I had the feeling it would be a pretty simple project like this.

Thank you for your summary at the end about it being a quality of life improvement rather than a complete necessity. I keep going back and forth on whether to send mine off. I want to do it, but I don’t know if I want to spend the money right now when I can just use backing sheets.

Feet? Does anyone make them?

Just so you know, these videos are extremely useful. Thank you.

At 3:54, where you remove the front plate above the keys. I have just acquired a sm2. It doesn’t have those screws. They are inside at a weird angle and I don’t know how to access them. Almost need an L shaped screwdriver. Suggestions?

I just bought one for 1£ today. It works perfectly I just have to restore the paint on it.

You totally need to do videos on your painting techniques, especially this marbling. I tried to marble an Underwood 6 chassis, following the craft lady instructions on KZbin and it looked like shit.

At 0:41 they're called hemostats. (I learned that from your other video).

"Welcome to earth - disappointment and redoing things". Amen.

Hi there. Where is part1? Doing this repair and am newbie. What is the length of the string?

Thanks for this helpful video.

Note that on my 5 streamline, there is a shim on the right side of the platen. So watch for that whenever you take a platen off. Been looking for instructions to get the paper tray and feed rollers off. This is the only video I have found that gives the straight forward instructions. Thanks for posting this! (Not my #5 also has a tab on each end of the rear feed rollers. The one knurled side will have to be bent away in order to take the pin out. It's also one long rod, not two independent sets. Fun!) 26:30 You can see some faint marks behind the type rest that are from the type bars hitting the platter (or whatever you want to call it.) So that felt is actually done and should either be replaced or at least flipped over so that doesn't get worse. I believe phxtypewriter posted a video where he showed one that was bad enough that the type bars actually sounded against that as they returned to rest.

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Perfect! Came to the KZbins to find an answer to this very issue. You rock.

Great information. Thank you!!

I've got the same model and I can't figure out how to get that bottom panel off. I have the side panels off, so I'm aware of the two nuts on the side, but obviously I'm missing something. Can I get a push in the right direction?