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1967 Smith Corona Profile Serial # 6Y707917W 1967 Smith Corona Profile typewriter, Serial # 6Y707917W James Grooms's 1967 Smith Corona Profile typewriter. 2024-03-19 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of James Grooms: 1967 Smith Corona Profile Serial # 6Y707917W A Corsair by another name. Maybe the "W" in the serial number is a Profile code?

The manual says "precision in miniature"? This 6Y is one small step removed from being a toy. The typebars and slop in the segment is very toy typewriter like. So going in I had to question the time vs the end result. The platen had a note around it "1999 garage sale $1." It was one step removed from the landfill like most of these.

The platen was covered in goo, so that was step one and each step along the way it was headed for the parts box. It cleaned up. Two of the mechanism mounts in the bottom cover were broken. What sort of engineer thought "hey this will survive a small bump so let's make it an integral carrying case? Two part epoxy fix. The card holder was bent and you see in the images it was allowed to grind away on the paper bail. It also hung up the shift so how anyone typed on it? That sorted, time to type test before going on. Yep, the typebars are bent to heck! Done but the A/a is giving me fits.

Next up was the body. I think nail polish remover was spilled on the top cover. Wet sand with 600 and then two part polish. Looks good. It was used as an ashtray? Yep, those are what appear to be cigarette burn marks in the top. They wouldn't sand out. Then I did a 20V UV treatment in a big clear tub. I'm burning through the plastic wrap fast. Was it off white? Oh and I flipped the typebar pad to even up the keys. Then finally onto some detail time.

Time not well spent because there will be no typing on this unless I hit a masochist streak. There is nothing “robust” about these machines and there never was. I remember them from HS and JC and you wonder what the current typoshpere ‘reviews’ are smoking. See a Brother for a period ultra comparison. S-C sold a ton of these and burned up their brand image pretty fast selling $35 junk.

1967 Smith Corona Profile #6Y707917W

Status: My Collection
Hunter: James Grooms (jgrooms)
Created: 03-16-2024 at 11:42AM
Last Edit: 03-19-2024 at 05:43AM

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A Corsair by another name. Maybe the "W" in the serial number is a Profile code?

The manual says "precision in miniature"? This 6Y is one small step removed from being a toy. The typebars and slop in the segment is very toy typewriter like. So going in I had to question the time vs the end result. The platen had a note around it "1999 garage sale $1." It was one step removed from the landfill like most of these.

The platen was covered in goo, so that was step one and each step along the way it was headed for the parts box. It cleaned up. Two of the mechanism mounts in the bottom cover were broken. What sort of engineer thought "hey this will survive a small bump so let's make it an integral carrying case? Two part epoxy fix. The card holder was bent and you see in the images it was allowed to grind away on the paper bail. It also hung up the shift so how anyone typed on it? That sorted, time to type test before going on. Yep, the typebars are bent to heck! Done but the A/a is giving me fits.

Next up was the body. I think nail polish remover was spilled on the top cover. Wet sand with 600 and then two part polish. Looks good. It was used as an ashtray? Yep, those are what appear to be cigarette burn marks in the top. They wouldn't sand out. Then I did a 20V UV treatment in a big clear tub. I'm burning through the plastic wrap fast. Was it off white? Oh and I flipped the typebar pad to even up the keys. Then finally onto some detail time.

Time not well spent because there will be no typing on this unless I hit a masochist streak. There is nothing “robust” about these machines and there never was. I remember them from HS and JC and you wonder what the current typoshpere ‘reviews’ are smoking. See a Brother for a period ultra comparison. S-C sold a ton of these and burned up their brand image pretty fast selling $35 junk.

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Grind it~
Grind it~

Burn marks.
Burn marks.

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