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1968 Imperial 80 Serial # 7F16976 1968 Imperial 80 typewriter, Serial # 7F16976 Darren Goossens's 1968 Imperial 80 typewriter. 2021-06-18 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Darren Goossens: 1968 Imperial 80 Serial # 7F16976 Huge thing. Came with no ribbon cover and a couple of keys missing, including the space bar (!). I re-purposed the tab bar as space bar because you use it a lot more and stuck some random bits of wood on to replace other missing bits. Hardly 'concourse' condition, but quite usable.

1968 Imperial 80 #7F16976

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Darren Goossens (djjjjg)
Created: 06-18-2021 at 04:34PM
Last Edit: 06-18-2021 at 04:42PM

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Huge thing. Came with no ribbon cover and a couple of keys missing, including the space bar (!). I re-purposed the tab bar as space bar because you use it a lot more and stuck some random bits of wood on to replace other missing bits. Hardly 'concourse' condition, but quite usable.

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The carriage is massive
The carriage is massive

My home-made spool cover has a nice fishtail motif.
My home-made spool cover has a nice fishtail motif.

The bit of MDF I'm using as a tab bar, and the bit of balsa wood for Z key are hardly 'seamless' replacements, but they both work. It was lucky that, given it was missing a key, it was Z and not E or A or something common.
The bit of MDF I'm using as a tab bar, and the bit of balsa wood for Z key are hardly 'seamless' replacements, but they both work. It was lucky that, given it was missing a key, it was Z and not E or A or something common.

Once more from the top
Once more from the top



Massive.
Massive.

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