1940 Royal Companion #CD-158993
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Nick Crenella (Firehawk42)
Created: 01-15-2025 at 03:42PM
Last Edit: 01-15-2025 at 04:17PM
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Got this guy from a rare, reasonably priced SGW auction. Physically, it was a mixed bag. The paint was overall pretty nice except for the bent paper table, but the brightwork was pretty rusty. Worse, though was the chunks missing from the platen. The bail rollers were actually physically stuck to the platen, and broke off a few more pieces when I tried to separate them. The kiss of death, though, came when I finally freed up the carriage, and discovered the star wheel axle screw had sheared off, and the wheel was just floating around in the machine. This is a completely new failure mode for me; usually an escapement failure comes as a result of a broken tooth on the star wheel or a broken dog, so this was quite the unusual situation. Fortunately, I only bought this machine to source the missing feed roller arm and springs for my other Companion, so all this just made me feel more comfortable putting this one on the parts shelf.
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Hunter: Nick Crenella (Firehawk42)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 46
A long-time lover of typewriters since I was a kid. I was drawn in by their rhythmic noises and the visual nature of the swinging typebars, but my inner mechanical engineer was most captivated by the intricacies of their mechanisms. It also doesn't hurt that I like all things vintage, from cars to music to electronics. My love was fostered by my grandfather, who would talk about the years he spent as an assemblyman for Royal Typewriter, which has certainly shaped the boundaries of my collection.
I bought my first typewriter in high school when I stumbled upon it by chance at a Goodwill, and while it remained my only machine for some time, I'm finally starting to add others to my collection. I collect exclusively Royal typewriters in honor of my grandfather (plus, I'm a little partial to their designs), although I've granted myself a single exception to get an IBM Correcting Selectric when I find one at a decent price.
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