1955 Olivetti Lexikon 80 #2456071
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Georg Sommeregger (shordzi)
Created: 05-08-2021 at 03:29AM
Last Edit: 05-08-2021 at 05:36AM
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Description:
A friend brought this beauty by my house the other day. It is the Lexikon 80 variant fitted with a decimal tabulator, plus it has a wide carriage which will allow you to insert paper up to A3 size. Cosmetically in fairly good condition - I only needed to bend two levers into shape -, there appears to be an issue with the first tabulator which I now will try to fix following Rob Bowker's 2013 instructions.
Update (three hours later): Rob's instructions are brillant, I did a bit of cleaning and managed to find the mistake. There were two, actually. I had rightly assumed the first tabulator had shifted out of position, which was easy to correct. Second, the carriage stopped mid-way, which was caused by a regular tab pin which had shifted out of position, equally easy to correct. Now for happy typing and type sample added!
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Hunter: Georg Sommeregger (shordzi)
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Based in Basel, Switzerland. Running typewriters.ch and sommeregger.blogspot.com.
Very early member of the typosphere.
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