I just rescued one of these from an e-waste trash pile, mine is the very same color, but a Typestar 5, thankfully it was in its own case, I loaded it with D batteries and it seems to work just fine. It had a cartridge in it and an unopened cartridge in the case. I love the look, the design and function of it and would love to start writing books by it. But, it seems the feed has a bit of a problem. It doesn’t seem to be strong enough to feed the paper evenly, it always catches and pulls left. I find when I press on the external gearing of a tiny geared stepper motor, it seems to feed really well. If you can, can this be the problem and could it be fixed? I am a tinkerer, have various motors of various sizes and have my own machine shop. Can you help/advise on this problem and a possible fix?

I hauled one of these into class in high school after they wouldn’t let me use my laptop to take notes. They told me to just use the laptop.

Great video and typewriter, and Im happy to see you uploading again, I hate too sound critical as I love your videos, I was wondering if a fluid tripod head would be useful to you, for those panning shots (left to right & vis versa). They give a much much smoother glide, instead of your traditional tripod heads which grab every few movements. They aren't that expensive and can be just bought as a head instead of a whole new tripod.

I am comforted to see your table wobbles even more than mine 😂 I noticed letter "a" is leaning to the left on the close-in shots.

That music and the great framing and light of your filming enhance the beautiful restoration work you did on this machine.

I love it❤ great video

A video about a tech device COMPLETELY unaffected by Microsoft! Loving it!!!

Now you're just showing off. 😉

..........you know what I want. This was ❤👍

I have a wide carriage Royal 10. It's not as pretty as yours, but man is she a smooth operator. I love Royal standards. Also, typewriter's typing is my ASMR. Coupled with the BGM, I could listen to that for hours. Someone should put out an entire album like that....

One of the most beautiful typewriters ever built, very well presented.

I love those machines.

Love,y video, beautiful machine and you ain’t too bad of a typist either, well done!

Beautiful Video Lucas! I completely agree; my 1914 Royal 10 is a dream to type on, and it gets used nearly every day! Fantastic pieces of history. Keep up the great work!

Lovely video and music. Thank you.

Wonderful video! Beautiful machine 👍

Namaste. It will become a pilgrimage.

yep

Thank you so much for this video, I have a personal typewriter and I love it, there isn't much out there on them and it is always great to see video's on them. I didn't know that they could have the cartridge changed out from the 210 bicycle one to the selectric 2 one, that is something that I might look into.

Well done! Very good comparison. Thanks!

Very nice explain

Very impressive typing speed Lucas! And a joy to see these two beautiful machines working side by side. Anthony

That last shot of you typing is fantastic!! AAAAAHHH LUCAS THE SHOP looks SOOOO GOOOD

I've been looking for a Caligraphy type element. I think it would be fun to write some letters and post cards with it.

The backdrop of the shop looks so amazing :D

Is the Personal IBM both 10 and 12 cpi? Can you type a degree symbol with the Personal IBM?

Love the comparison ❤

What an interesting video,well done 👍

Class of '80 here. We trained on redbrick colored Selectric IIs, nylon ribbons, no correction. They were massive. I have a Selectric III now that doesnt work perfectly. It makes a thumping sound, the correction ribbon is hosed, and when i type the same letter too quickly (for example, in the word "letter"), the second punch doesnt "take". Having said that, I just typed out a beautiful resume on it. Your green one is a true work of art. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Also,you may want to cover your tools, I'd be a bit leery on placing work bench and tools and such exposed to the front window where people can look in... I wish a shop would open in the small one horse town I live in. Any way, I'm wishing you my absolute best Lucas! Be Safe and Be Well!

How cool but man, lol stop moving the camera around so much, it's a puke maker, so I've switched to listening mode...sorry, just a real motion sickness activator with quick rapid movements, id suggest next time go wide and slow, move a pointer or hand around without moving the camera. But overall I bit this was a work of joy, a rewarding experience and prayer your business shines and shines! Been sharing your website and channel into many outlets and likes. So, I'm a working subscriber. So, when will there be another writing contest? Future painting trick, if you add 3 tablespoons of pure vanilla to one can of paint, the paint smell will be replaced with a pleasant comforting smell of vanilla as it's a natural odor eliminator. An old Hindu expression towards prosperity, May your business have a 1000 rooms, and each room may have a murder. It sounds horrible and odd, but much like the saying Break a leg means good luck in the film and theater without jinx it with actually saying good luck, so to is the Hindu old expression. I was told by a social studies professor this expression and it comes across as a murder is news it's something that brings fame, and true it's on a darker side it stems from the jealousy of your competitors, the expression is said to have been spoken so often that when a murder finally happened in one of these business', it of course brought fame and more business. Like the saying there's no such thing as bad press. Or the only bad press is no press (press as in news or a reporter/journalist interviewing you and your business, but I have a feeling you knew what the old term Press, meant). Keep going, not only is it an art to repair these machines of power dreams and knowledge, but it's absolutely needed. Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life!

Oh man, you're killing me, lol, it's right there, right there....grrr, sorry I just really love the way the Olivetti Lettera 35i looks, I want to know more about it, you said you would if I asked and Yes PLEASE, do a video on that beautiful machine.❤ Just curious, you selling yours? This was good one too, didn't know these used an ink well/pad. Anytime I do anything with ink, = gloves. These Typewriters remind me of a spider.

Thank you, your presentation is spot on . As a life long photographer which includes many years w/500 CM . I have been a bit intimidated w/using my 907 50 & adapting it to my 500CM body . . as well a using the 907 w/its lens adapter ( quite a few steps ) & my older Hasselblad lens . I'm not as fast a user at 76 as I was "back in the day" . Again Thank You .

Thanks for the video. I would say first of all it was way to much ink on the ink pad in the first place. And you need some more pieces of paper to soften the imprint, the platen sounds rock hard even though the surface looks new (shrink tubing?)

Thermal Typewriters, are wonderful machines! I have a nerve disease that's extremely painful called CRPS, I have type 2, (and I'm a Step Dad so DadType2, lol beat you thought of Diabetes, most do) but there are days I'm not able to make it to the desk and work, as I like to write my first drafts on Typewriters, so Joe, ah yes, Joe and I were talking and I had mentioned that it's hard to use the laptop on my legs in bed, and that I was looking into a Freewrite, but two things I knew about them I didn't like, 1: the price and 2: type delay. So Joe says, how about a Thermal Typewriter? So, I bought a 1981 brother EP-20 and I name all my machines based off their name a kind of play on words or something about them, or in this case the way it looks. To me the EP-20, looks like a computer terminal on the starship Nostromo in the movie Alien, so that's what I named mine, Nostromo. Now this is the world's first battery powered portable thermal typewriter, an absolutely fun machine to write on, I have in fact a manuscript for a cosmic horror I'm working on that has 70 pages from Nostromo (EP-20). It's very print quiet but paper feed is a bit loud. At the time I paid $4 bucks, that included the shipping price, lol on eBay, now they're still not bad price wise but I do see them going up. And Battery life lasts about a week. I was using mine for 6-10 pages a day. It's quality of print is like dot matrix. No darker settings. And so of course I was interested in buying the power cable and luck would have it the power cable for the EP-20 runs the entire brother line of thermal typewriters! Back to eBay I went hunting. I found the adapter for it, but the seller wanted $50.00 for it, and it was the only one, HOWEVER, someone was selling a brother EP-43 that had the power adapter with it for $24.00 and so I thought I'll buy this and pay less AND get another machine. The EP-43 has a bunch more options and a really good dark print. It's paper feed is quit but it's printing is on the noisy side when compared to the Nostromo. This EP-43 looks still really good, classy yet Superhero like, or a vigilantly to my Words, so I named it Bruce Wayne for the Day and Dark Knight (Batman) at night, and the neat part is, when I write on any manuscript I write in the upper left corner Title Cheaper Page Machine used And if I'm reading my manuscript and read Bruce I know it was on the EP-43 AND that it was written during the day. Or Dark Knight, I know I wrote that during the night. The EP-43 is the favorite among the two just because of the extra dark print. It's extremely fun to type on, it stays on my nightstand and Nostromo is in a go bag for if I have to for example take my kid to Gym or Swim practice or Ballet, and I'm stuck in the car for an hour or 2, I bring my go bag with the Weyland-Yutani building better worlds patch on the bag. I find this machine an absolute great option if you want something like a Freewrite but don't want to spend that much pick up a brother EP-43 for pennies! You get the same distraction free machine that saves on paper memory. Which is more rewarding as I can physically see your work produced. Serial numbers with the first Alphabet letter from 'A' through 'J' will have an alarm for end of page. 'K'-'Z' will not. You can buy thermal paper in sheets on Amazon, it's very good quality. Also I know an argument against is fading. But what you have to understand is, your receipt from the store fades for many reasons, first the paper is thin and cheap to help keep costs down, the machines that burn the receipts are doing it really really really fast to keep the lines moving all of this makes for a document that will fad in a matter of days. These thermal typewriters print good strong and slow, and the quality of the paper is way better. Joe has thermal printed documents that are still just as readable maybe just starting to fade some but they're almost 40 years old. I have pages in another manuscript from a year ago and it's fine. So don't worry about fade. When done transfer to a computer. If I were to recommend between the brother EP-43 or EP-20, I would recommend the EP-43. It's that awesome. The EP-20 has that great end of 70s look, and it is an awesome machine, but it's keyboard is a calculator chick lix kind of buttons, and to me their great but the EP-43 has a darker print, it can Bold, E X P A N D print, underline, center, it has an auto return with type function so has the head is in the process of printing and returning you can keep typing you don't have to wait for it to finish. So you can go a bit quicker if you so desire. It looks really good in fact I was using mine outside at a softball practice, and this guy, probably in his early 20s comes up and asks what is that, and I explain it's a Typewriter that uses thermal power to write or print on thermal paper, so long as you have the paper and power you will never run out of ink, and he didn't see it as a Typewriter but a computer with a built in printer and he thought it was the coolest thing ever, and the asked if I bought it online or is it something from Best Buy, and I explained more and his face got red with embarrassment and I told him no need what a compliment that a machine older than him is good looking enough to make someone think it could be bought at a local Best Buy. Lol a computer with a printer built in, and I get it but I suppose that's what a Typewriter is a mechanical computer that has an attached printing press. So yeah, glad you enjoy yours, I highly recommend the brother EP-43 and if you like that older look like being in a sci-fi movie you'll love the EP-20. But I know if you had the two, you would like lol Joe and I agree, tend to favor the EP-43 over the 20. There is a cool EP-22 that looks Russian/USSR that in its day could be connected to a computer and used as a printer! There is a black and red version rare, tends to be more money than the EP-20. Last time I looked 07-14/15 - 2024 you can spend $39-$400 for an EP-20 and especially an EP-22. To give you an idea of price increase just a year ago I bought EP-20 $4.00 EP-43 $24.00 This prices are gone now and I get tempted to look for a parts machine for the EP-20 and EP-43. Well, looking forward to that Olivetti Lettera 35i, do you sell Typewriters? I'd like to buy a OL 35i but I would like to know more about it. Weight and feel How it feels typing Paper feed, does it feel like it's going to break any moment? Lol, what is metal and what is plastic, would it make a good ultra portable typewriter, is it in fact an ultra portable typewriter? Hard to tell in pictures as I never see one with something like a bottle of water next to it for a frame of reference. Anyway, so looking forward to a thorough review like I know you can do. Thanks for reading, sorry about any typos did this on my phone's keyboard and YT doesn't give more room to edit something this epic lol. 👍 Always, hope this finds you with an excellent Monday!

In many ways, I'm glad they are still making new manual typewriters but these examples are not precision machines designed with functionality in mind and that's where they fall down. If you think about the prices, if you account for inflation these should be a couple of grand. So when you think of it that way they really are cheaply made. A step above a toy. If I was going to buy new I'd be better off with electric. Really enjoy your videos, thanks for giving us a really detailed review of this type of machine.

I know this is about the Williams, but I am transfixed by that laptop computer. Any additional information about it?

wtf is that computer lol Nice videos otherwise it's rare to see williams in action :)

This is the exact model Selectric 1 that I want, with the cloth ribbon. I have a cartridge for one, I just need to find a machine now.

I'm glad you did this review - I almost bought one of these before I found a better antique typewriter locally.

Where can I get green, purple or blue ribbons in Europe? Do you ship to Europe?

Hi Lucas, I have a question for you, if you did not repair your typewriters. Yourself and you took them to another repair person What questions would you ask them? Thank you so much.

Around minute 15 or 16, you state that the typeslugs have been cast in the wrong way, resulting in uppercase not matching to lowercase. However, at 16:05 it is clearly visible that while on the second row, C and W are too high, they are quite perfectly fine on the first line right above. Which proves that the uppercase letters are out of alignment and not badly casted. So it must be the shift mechanism that is causing the uppercase letters to sometimes get places too high.

I’ve seen these machines being sold for $100 and up.. at that point I might as well splurge on a sturdy machine that just needs a good cleaning 😭

Joe Van Cleave brought me here. Very nice video, and do you know there is not more than 1 good video in English on that Olivetti Lettera 35i !!! Very well done video, you've earned my subscription! Thank you for doing this, I as a Typewriter collector and user, I'll probably not be investing in this machine. Very thorough and better than some adults struggle to manage. Very professional.❤ Liked and subscribed. Great job! 👍

Do you prefer typing on the Hermes 3000 or the Olympia SG1?

Interesting

this is the best explanation I have seen, many thanks.

Absolutely superb job. Lucas you made it SO FANTASTIC. I am so insanely happy for you, it's an honor to have been able to help. *CONGRATULATIONS.*

Awesome!!