1955 Olympia SM3 #605468
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Mary Echevarria (Mech)
Created: 07-18-2016 at 12:29PM
Last Edit: 07-18-2016 at 12:38PM
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Description:
This wide carriage Olympia belongs to a local community arts space. I brought it home to repair an unresponsive space bar and misaligned text and then returned it.
Thanks to the ample information available online, I was able to fix both issues. See links.
Serial number stamped on the bottom, on a rail near the back.
Typeface Specimen:
Links:
- Tweaking Your Olympia SM - Richard Polt
- Olympia SM5 Adjustments
- Misaligned lowercase on an Olympia SM4
- Adjusting Vertical Typeface Alignment (Carriage-Shift Typewriters)
- Post about the Olympia SM3 on my typewriter blog
Photos:
Hunter: Mary Echevarria (Mech)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
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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.
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