1966 Remington Model 24 #M290255
Status: My Collection
Hunter: James Grooms (jgrooms)
Created: 10-19-2024 at 04:55PM
Last Edit: 12-03-2024 at 04:39PM
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While the elfs toil away in the typewriter sweatshop, I am off in the hinterlands where the $10 typewriters still exist. The line lock is stuck and there is a little bit of rust around, but otherwise it should clean up well. Do you want to know how bad it is over at Remington when you don't have a viable option to an IBM? Well buy two 25s and they throw in a 24 for free.
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Is this the last great standard? I believe if you mean domestically, it is. Underwood is gone and even if they were around the Touchmast 5 cost cutting measure machine is no match. It wasn't a match when it was the 'Golden Touch." As well Royal/Litton has butchered the FP and stuck it in the Electress body. Smith Corona and the 75? I've never had one on the bench. Was it another cost-cutter?
The Remington Model 24 is the same as the Standard model. It is not quite a 17, as those had a finer touch setting and a were softer at the low setting. These three-position machines always feel heavy. I don't know when they started with the pivoting rear section (pic), but it is sweet. *** 1950 with the first Super Riter. See pic. Fold-A-Matic.
Remington is clearly following the Royal example with the Empress/Electress. It is the only way to explain the large shell this Standard is placed in, While the Model 26 (1970) will have a different shell, I'd bet they indented this to be the shell it would go in,
This example came off a farm and was out in a shed, so full of the fine sand you'd expect. The big issue was a few areas of rust. The ribbon switch and the line lock pivot in particular. I got the line lock lever to move, but it was moving the pivot post along with it. If not for the flip back frame, I wouldn't have been able to get a pair of Vise-Grips on the pivot (pic) and hold it while moving the lever with some PBB assist.
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As with many, the bug is back there somewhere due to an Underwood No. 5. My grandfather was on a small town school board and used one for this. My parents had a yellow Royal Safari that I used to index card everything, including a beer can collection. Collection syndrome clue! The long dormant tic was activated when my neighbors left a Remington Quiet Riter on the curb when they moved in circa 2010, Yes a believe it or not story is next, when a Hermes 3000 comes home with the girlfriend from work for free. Yes, free! From there the addiction is full steam. And yes, I now have a No. 5. Typewriters are the perfect blend of using one's technical skills, history and functional purpose.
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