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1924 L.C. Smith 8 Serial # 532870-8 1924 L.C. Smith 8 typewriter, Serial # 532870-8 Mighty Jabba's 1924 L.C. Smith 8 typewriter. 2023-05-10 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Mighty Jabba: 1924 L.C. Smith 8 Serial # 532870-8 This was a Shopgoodwill.com purchase that amazingly shipped for just $5 ($.01 shipping and $4.99 handling). I was a little apprehensive about it arriving safe, but they did a reasonably good job packing it.

It was pretty dirty (especially inside the amount of dust was impressive) but generally mechanically sound. They had mentioned in the listing that the 3 key stuck, but it wasn't the usual gunk in the segment that was the cause. Instead, I found that it was binding against one of the metal teeth at the bottom of the machine (not sure what it's called, but it's a sort of comb that separates the linkages). All I had to do was bend it a fraction of a millimeter and now it works fine.

The feed rollers do have flat spots that occasionally interfere with the paper feeding properly, but the platen is in nice shape (if hard). I only seem to have a single tab clip remaining in the back. The typeface does seem weirdly small for such a gigantic machine, but the typing action is quite nice (aided by ball bearings on each of the linkages, I understand).

After giving it a good clean and wax, it looks surprisingly good! There are some paint chips here and there, but they aren't really noticeable at a distance. For a 99-year-old machine, I think it looks amazing!

1924 L.C. Smith 8 #532870-8

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Created: 05-10-2023 at 07:44AM
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This was a Shopgoodwill.com purchase that amazingly shipped for just $5 ($.01 shipping and $4.99 handling). I was a little apprehensive about it arriving safe, but they did a reasonably good job packing it.

It was pretty dirty (especially inside the amount of dust was impressive) but generally mechanically sound. They had mentioned in the listing that the 3 key stuck, but it wasn't the usual gunk in the segment that was the cause. Instead, I found that it was binding against one of the metal teeth at the bottom of the machine (not sure what it's called, but it's a sort of comb that separates the linkages). All I had to do was bend it a fraction of a millimeter and now it works fine.

The feed rollers do have flat spots that occasionally interfere with the paper feeding properly, but the platen is in nice shape (if hard). I only seem to have a single tab clip remaining in the back. The typeface does seem weirdly small for such a gigantic machine, but the typing action is quite nice (aided by ball bearings on each of the linkages, I understand).

After giving it a good clean and wax, it looks surprisingly good! There are some paint chips here and there, but they aren't really noticeable at a distance. For a 99-year-old machine, I think it looks amazing!

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