1921 Oliver 9 #961271

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Mary Echevarria (Mech)
Created: 04-13-2015 at 11:31AM
Last Edit: 10-28-2015 at 07:44AM

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Description:

This is an eBay acquisition. It was damaged during shipment and probably landed on its right tower - it was shorter and a bit bent. Many of the type bars are bent - as you probably can gather from my limited typeface specimen.

The machine also had a broken mainspring that I repaired and a missing draw cord I re-attached. The escapement mechanism was completely rusted/corroded and frozen. That is now moving.

The remaining problem is a sticky ribbon vibrator. It types only with gentle persuasion.

Typeface Specimen:

Links:

• Tony Mindling's Restoration of an Oliver No. 9
• Bruce Varner's Restoration of an Oliver No. 5
• Shannon L. Johnson's Oliver Tribute Page
• Robert Messenger of ozTypewriter’s post on Printype
• My typewriter blog - Oliver entries
• Martin Rice: The Story of the Oliver - video of restoring/refurbishing his Oliver no. 9

Photos:

Printype model with excellent decals

Original spool covers - interesting wooden core found inside spool container

Platen looks bad, but still has a little spring

Carriage removed

Not much nickel plate left on the the towers

Rusty spring barrel with a fishing line draw cord

Serial number is under carriage rail on right, next to the bell

Hunter: Mary Echevarria (Mech)

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I'm a novice collector with a very small collection of mostly nonfunctional typewriters. I enjoy tinkering and repairs, so I am slowly but surely putting these typewriters back into service.