1962 Olympia SM7 #1972932
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Amanda Wood (typesofthought)
Created: 02-28-2024 at 12:20PM
Last Edit: 02-28-2024 at 12:22PM
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Facebook Marketplace find, seller was clearing out a family member's home. I went for this typewriter and came home with a bonus SCM electric I wasn't looking for.
Repairs included multiple drawband fixes, tab brake repair (three cracked weights), thorough segment cleaning, polishing, new ribbon. Beauuutiful machine, worth learning the ins and outs of the repairs and snapping one of the e-clips (and finding a replacement).
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Hunter: Amanda Wood (typesofthought)
Amanda Wood's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 373
First typewriter bought in 6/2023, now at over 30 in my collection with most recorded in the galleries. There's a special place in my heart for Smith-Coronas, blue typewriters, and typewriters from 1964 (my parents' birth year). Prefer manuals to electrics, portables to ultra portables or desktops, but will head home with anything if it's cheap enough and functional/repairable. I've successfully gifted typewriters to two siblings, a best friend, and an in-law. Keeping up with my lifelong tradition of making and repairing by hand. When not typing or working on a typewriter, I'm often reading, gardening (vegetable), preserving harvests (canning, dehydrating, freezing), knitting, sewing, writing letters/short stories, or shooting film photography. I like the slow, analog life.
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