Hallo! Thank you! I am using my 32 and my only issue is changing ribbons. Is there a trick not getting all black and red when puttning it in place?

Make. Sure. It. Turns. On. types. On. Paper. I. Got. A. brothers. I. A. second. Hand. Store. it. Turned. On. ,got. Ink. For. It, and. Then. it. wouldn't. Type. On. Paper

Wonderful thoughts about creativity, thanks

Thaaaaaaaaanks!!!! You speak from the true you know, that is very generous

Great! Thanks

Hi, love your tutorial, I just bought my first typewriter, and I don't know much about it, but thanks to the tutorials I,m learning, what do you do if you make a mistake and need to erase or correct it, what key do you choose, I,m a writer, have been handwriting my materials, I,m now starting on a handwritten book of mine, and want to type it before it gets published.

I didn’t think I’d ever like an ultra portable until I got my lettera 32. The basket shift is as smooth as any other. Also curious-Do you know if the platen is smaller around than on a typical portable? The one on my skyriter was very small.

Great point, Damon!

Have this EXACT model. The hype folks, is real. The feel of a Hermes 3000 is divine, sublime -- even sensual really. The keys call to your fingers, they lull thoughts right out of you... they disentangle the morass of the mind, manifest, then float right there on the page. The typeface is small, so if you're switching between machines sometimes, such as a Lettera 32/33, it takes some adjusting, though not much. Even the case in its weight feels great: the handle, the carry, the simplicity of how the shell top comes on and off. I have mine standing upright next to a bookcase and it looks like a snug piece of free standing artwork. In Denmark, there's a Danish word, "hygge" (pronounced "hoo-gah") that means a cozy, contented feeling that comes from comfort and conviviality, usually associated with spaces or moments, yet I'd say it also perfectly describes the Hermes 3000. It's a work machine AND a leisure machine simultaneously. It was my first manual typewriter purchase and thus far, remains my best.

Adler junior 12 - - - thinking of getting one of these, good idea?

Love your videos. Recent subscriber. Maybe look more into the camera and less to the text you prepared (if thats even a text youre looking at).

I'm building a word processor in Minecraft and surprisingly the action of physically shifting to access capitals over little letters is how mine works. The shift actually shifts (but mine shifts a hexadecimal number instead as it has a ROM) But I've been trying to find a way of how to add accents to letters and dead keys are the answer. I didn't know the concept has been around for decades

nice to have one dead key in all typewriters cos more 'symbols'. btw why so many fractions like 1/2...3/4 keys which i never use?

Wow I have always wondered why no typewriter does a half and half red black setting, in fact I initially thought that was what the stencil setting was. Now I know by far the most expensive typewriter I can think of has it!! Love your videos, just picked up my first "branded" typewriter - an Olympia sm9!! I have a boots model 40 which I thought was fantastic (until I tried this Olympia). I also have an Adler Tippa but it has a missing screw alongside a broken screw thread at the back right, true shame. But this Olympia I picked up is in better condition than me and I am only 25.. it is probably over double my age. Have an amazing afternoon!

I was struggling to figuring out how to put back the Platon in my Monarch Noiseless 8, which greatly upset me since I was very proud of this antique store find. I thought to myself that I had surely broken my my new treasure. Then I found this series of videos, thank you for the amazing eureka moment!

I love this. It’s so fun.

Is this process the same as doing it on a Brother Young Elite 513?

Are you the janitor from The Breakfast Club?

I fixed probably every make and model of typewriter from the past 100 years when I did this professionally for 20 years. It got boring but electronic typewriters were coming out so I moved into those. I always used my thumbnail to test platens. If I could dent it on the edge, it was probably fine. We always reconditioned the platens by putting them on a drill or lathe, used industrial screen to sand them. The screen was place on a shop rag then doused with rubber reconditioner and ran until smooth. We sent our platens to Seattle Platen for recovering. No idea if they are still around but they did a fantastic job with a quick turnaround.

Lovely machines and delicious sounds. Thank you! 00:00 - 1950 Smith-Corona Skyriter 23:11 - 1965 Hermes 3000 47:20 - 1958 Smith-Corona Silent-Super 1:09:11 - 1952 Olivetti Lettera 32 1:35:07 - 1935 Corona Four

I’ve been itching to get a typewriter as I love to write and have fond memories of my grandfather teaching me how to use his typewriter when I would go and visit him as a child. Thank you so very kindly for this video; it was such a pleasure to watch and incredibly helpful! Cheers ~ Z

This is so helpful!

I cant believe your videos dont get more views, I really enjoy them. Keep up the great work!

I'm glad i figured out what that did, for little i thought it would be used as a correction element some how but thats not it, thatnks for the video

Thank you for sharing these tips, they have helped me a lot with my precious Olivetti.

as someone who was listening to the audio, wasn't expecting to get jumpscared

Can I change a language?

Very nice video. My first typewriter was my mother's portable Royal. It lived in a yellowish hard case. I learned to hunt and peck on it. Later, in high school, my grandfather brought me an older Royal full size desktop machine. I had horrible handwriting, so it made me much more productive in school. My mom bought a Smith Corona electric which she had reworked with math symbols so she could create tests and handouts, and when I found that it's feel delighted me, I spent a hundred bucks on a used SCM with a normal character set, but a really odd and nice sans serif typeface that delighted me even more, since it was different. I took that machine to college. I went to schook in Oswego, and we would drive through Cortland NY, the home of SCM, on our way to and from. And that pretty much wrapped it up, especially when I went to work as a programmer for MicroPro (WordStar) in 1982, and never really used a typewriter again.

Thanks for the video, Came to know how to "flick the switch" . It helped a lot.

Your videos have been such a blessing. I bought my first typewriter a few weeks ago - by coincidence a Lettera 22 (It was a bit of an impulse buy off of ebay, and I think i lucked out with the condition, price, and manufacturer! Came fully serviced and only cost me like £120 ... I've had the most fun using, I'm just annoyed at myself for not getting one sooner - and your vids have been really useful as I move forward with my typewriter journey

your attempts at being funny are fails. we just need the info, theres plenty of bad comedy out there all ready.

Do you consider it as a truly noiseless machine?. I just bought one because I want to use it in a small cubicle within a library.

I just received an Olivetti Lettera 33 with a qwertz keyboard and was downright distraught when I hit that dead key thinking it was a machine malfunction so this diacritic explanation is a GAME CHANGER! Thanks for this... although I still am going to have a bit of a learning curve with that key in addition to fixing the carriage lock that seems to have gotten stuck after I released it. So it's not all champagne cocktails from here, however this little bit of knowledge is immensely helpful.

Any new typewriters added to the fleet?

I had just started to watch your videos on the Olivetti typewriters and was planning on purchasing one somewhere on line, when, looking through one of my parents' many closets, I found 2 (!) Olivetti typewriters: an apple green Lettera 32 and a Studio 44! Couldn't be happier. Thank you for your very useful tutorials!

Hi Damon, I like this comment about how you self-direct yourself as a writer. I compared it to my profession. I’m an architect. In our field, the last instance to judge your building is the people who work and live there. That’s definitive.

Do you have one for sale

Such a great review, thanks.

Loving your content and your bubbly personality

Type writers are also what you’re going to use in SHTF or end of world situation where you can not use electricity except for survival and you need the typewriter to make things easier in terms of communicating the old-fashioned way as you can still be stealthy in facing the enemy in an invasion except when it comes to movement maybe however, that is arguable because birds have been used to send messages in the past like in World War I.

I really enjoyed the presentation. Thank you!

He looked younger with the beard

Thanks!

This information is fantastic, I only wish I had found it sooner. Thanks a ton for this.

Holy crap this was a great story. Thanks so much for sharing. 🙏🏼

How to repair a broken remington portable carriage lock?

Yeah I tend to not do any work when on a break or vacation. But I still find some time to jot down ideas on google docs real quick.

Cool please help me write my story

HI sir I am from Pakistan I liked your content ,,, Sir may I ask ... where can I buy some kind of good typewriter?

i've this typewriter but 2 hammer of 6 & 9 key are not working can you guide me how to open and repair typebars?