@chrisaldrich How wonderful! I love typewriters and envy your collection. I have a little orange Brother Deluxe 250TR with a faulty Shift mechanism - the price I was quoted for repair was eye-watering so I just type everything in lower case!
@onewildcrow Typing everything in lower case seems so e. e. cummingsāa ā40s Smith-Corona Clipper fan, btwālike the black 1949 machine in in the front left of the photo.
Iāve fixed at least two different shift issues on these machines using videos on YouTube and either a screwdriver or a pair of pliers. If you can describe what your shift issue is, maybe we can track down a quick-and-dirty solution for you? My Brother Charger 11 (blue machine on the right in the last row) is fairly similar to the 250 and I need to pull it apart to fix a few things myself, so if looking at the shift set up on a working model is useful, Iām happy to help.
I think your lower case solution is so much more romantic thoughā¦ Donāt let me talk you into anything.
@chrisaldrich Going to be honest - I was much more interested in your card catalog in the background. Great collection!
@patrickrhone Which one? The ā49 Henry Dreyfuss with tombstone keys in the front or the rounder green keyed ā55 in the second row?
Iām holding my breath to find a ā48 version with the grey center stripe in an elite typeface. Our fellow QDL typists include the likes Anne Sexton, Clifford Odets, Stephen King, Edward R. Murrow, Marlon Brando, Virginia Cowles, Theodore Sturgeon, S.J. Perelman, David Niven, and Claire Chennault.
@patrickrhone Those mid-ā50s Royals were part of what I call āpeak manual typewriterā. They will last for centuries.
@JohnBrady Thatās awesome. Is there anything left of it now? A museum perhaps? Iām planning a trip to New England to see some parts of Remingtonās old manufacturing infrastructure soon. Should I swing through Groton too?