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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Designing new type wheels for the Blickenserfer typewriter
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It is possible today to create new type wheel designs for the Blickensderfer typewriter! With readily available software tools and common, l...
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Saturday, March 1, 2025
Messing-about making new Blickensderfer ink rolls
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The original ink rolls of my Blickensderfer were hard and dried out. Whilst it is written on The Internet that these can be revived, decided...
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Manufacturing process for a new Blickensderfer type wheel 407
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How to make a new type wheel for the Blickensderfer; in this case a reproduction 'Small Roman' type wheel catalogue number 407, code...
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Thursday, February 6, 2025
Excavating (or destroying?) a layer of history on a machine
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This particular Underwood 5 was bought locally, originally meant as a reference machine to help with the restoration of an older 1920 Underw...
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Friday, January 31, 2025
One mystery part - mildly disconcerting
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After taking it apart and putting it back together, one spring that won't fit anywhere. This Blickensderfer 7 was also one key-lever sp...
Friday, January 24, 2025
Swapping-out cellulose acetate keys on a Comptometer
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To start, five columns of white keys for a Comptometer. These are genuine, old keys. Not new reproductions, but relatively good originals. T...
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