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1962 Facit T2 Serial # 259407 1962 Facit T2 typewriter, Serial # 259407 Julian Zadorozny's 1962 Facit T2 typewriter. 2024-07-23 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Julian Zadorozny: 1962 Facit T2 Serial # 259407 This is a wide carriage 1962 Facit T2. About a year ago I purchased this typewriter from a man living about an hour from Toronto in Pickering, Ontario. I arrived on time and stood in his hallway punching a few keys to watch the carriage move forward. I was pleased.

When the typewriter got home, I decided to run the machine through its paces. Unfortunately, I decided to lift the carriage off, and small steel ball bearings spilled out. I couldn’t insert the carriage back onto the top of the typewriter’s frame. Those ball bearings are to aid the Facit’s carriage bar to push the carriage in a swift gliding motion.

With a heavy sigh I decided to leave the typewriter with Doug Sanderson of Toronto Business Machines. I waited for a few weeks and the news was bleak. No donor machine means no parts, which means no Facit. What does one do with a broken sixty-year-old Swedish typewriter? Find an unbroken sixty-year-old Swedish typewriter.

After three months of surfing Kijiji, I found another person selling his Facit T2 for a bargain, in Hamilton, Ontario. Driving in the rain I found Hamilton where the city has been situated since 1846. The gentleman and I stood on his porch, and he told me the Facit was given to him by a friend who worked in Hamilton’s local government. She was unloading her office items and gifted the typewriter to him. He decided to sell. Having pity on me for driving in the rain he shaved ten dollars off. Like I said, a bargain. I drove the donor typewriter home and hoped it could be used as parts to resurrect the original. Success.

Two months later this T2 is in fine working order. I was torn with the decision to disassemble the donor to bring new life to the ’62 or keep the Hamilton T2 as is and have it oiled and primed for use. I chose the Pickering Facit instead. I forgot to take any pictures of the Hamilton Facit, my fault. Should I have asked the tech to just switch out the carriages? A Frankenstein Facit so to speak? In the end the cleaner of the two sits out east at the cottage for me to use when I take a few days off to relax, and to write. So, here are shots of the fresh ‘new’ Facit working like a charm, so brisk and quick on the keys. A delight. Yet, I wonder if I should have just kept that donor.

1962 Facit T2 #259407

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Julian Zadorozny (Kuliano1977)
Created: 07-22-2024 at 06:16PM
Last Edit: 07-23-2024 at 09:49AM

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This is a wide carriage 1962 Facit T2. About a year ago I purchased this typewriter from a man living about an hour from Toronto in Pickering, Ontario. I arrived on time and stood in his hallway punching a few keys to watch the carriage move forward. I was pleased.

When the typewriter got home, I decided to run the machine through its paces. Unfortunately, I decided to lift the carriage off, and small steel ball bearings spilled out. I couldn’t insert the carriage back onto the top of the typewriter’s frame. Those ball bearings are to aid the Facit’s carriage bar to push the carriage in a swift gliding motion.

With a heavy sigh I decided to leave the typewriter with Doug Sanderson of Toronto Business Machines. I waited for a few weeks and the news was bleak. No donor machine means no parts, which means no Facit. What does one do with a broken sixty-year-old Swedish typewriter? Find an unbroken sixty-year-old Swedish typewriter.

After three months of surfing Kijiji, I found another person selling his Facit T2 for a bargain, in Hamilton, Ontario. Driving in the rain I found Hamilton where the city has been situated since 1846. The gentleman and I stood on his porch, and he told me the Facit was given to him by a friend who worked in Hamilton’s local government. She was unloading her office items and gifted the typewriter to him. He decided to sell. Having pity on me for driving in the rain he shaved ten dollars off. Like I said, a bargain. I drove the donor typewriter home and hoped it could be used as parts to resurrect the original. Success.

Two months later this T2 is in fine working order. I was torn with the decision to disassemble the donor to bring new life to the ’62 or keep the Hamilton T2 as is and have it oiled and primed for use. I chose the Pickering Facit instead. I forgot to take any pictures of the Hamilton Facit, my fault. Should I have asked the tech to just switch out the carriages? A Frankenstein Facit so to speak? In the end the cleaner of the two sits out east at the cottage for me to use when I take a few days off to relax, and to write. So, here are shots of the fresh ‘new’ Facit working like a charm, so brisk and quick on the keys. A delight. Yet, I wonder if I should have just kept that donor.

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Hunter: Julian Zadorozny (Kuliano1977)

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I purchased my first typewriter in 2000: Brother Pro-Line 707 built in 1969.
I wrote eight hours a day, seven days a week on that tiny machine. I wrote my first unpublished novel and hundreds of short stories on the Brother.
In 2020 I decided to purchase my second typewriter. At ten and counting, I still use and collect these amazing tools for writing.


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