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1968 Facit 1620 Serial # P644018 1968 Facit 1620 typewriter, Serial # P644018 Ed Foster's 1968 Facit 1620 typewriter. 2017-09-17 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Ed Foster: 1968 Facit 1620 Serial # P644018 First class typer. The shell is made of a light weight metal (aluminum I imagine), but it's got enough metal in the guts to be heavy. Doesn't type like any other typerwriter I have. Not buttery, but not hard either. I like it. Needed the usual dusting and cleaning. One thing, and I don't know if this is common or not: after a few words, something in the inside begins to resonate, like it's sensing a harmonic. It literally feels like a tuning fork vibrating inside. But only just barely. I can feel it in my fingertips. If I stop typing but leave my fingers on the keys, it slowly fades away in decreasing pulses. It's the coolest darn thing. Like it's alive. Sort of like a cat purring. And no... I quit drinking a couple of years ago. :-)

1968 Facit 1620 #P644018

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Hunter: Ed Foster (Gr8tfulEd)
Created: 09-17-2017 at 04:04PM
Last Edit: 09-17-2017 at 04:14PM

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First class typer. The shell is made of a light weight metal (aluminum I imagine), but it's got enough metal in the guts to be heavy. Doesn't type like any other typerwriter I have. Not buttery, but not hard either. I like it. Needed the usual dusting and cleaning. One thing, and I don't know if this is common or not: after a few words, something in the inside begins to resonate, like it's sensing a harmonic. It literally feels like a tuning fork vibrating inside. But only just barely. I can feel it in my fingertips. If I stop typing but leave my fingers on the keys, it slowly fades away in decreasing pulses. It's the coolest darn thing. Like it's alive. Sort of like a cat purring. And no... I quit drinking a couple of years ago. :-)

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