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1971 Sears Celebrity Power 12 Serial # S6LL109637G 1971 Sears Celebrity Power 12 typewriter, Serial # S6LL109637G James Grooms's 1971 Sears Celebrity Power 12 typewriter. 2026-05-11 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of James Grooms: 1971 Sears Celebrity Power 12 Serial # S6LL109637G This model is essentially a stripped-down SC Electra 220. Gone are the changeable type slugs, power spacer, and half space key. What you do get is an easy-to-remove body, which includes a carriage panel that can be unscrewed for service. Gone are the hard-to-deal-with springs that hold most of these panels on.

New for 1971 by the ads and the F/W catalog. Looks like a miniature IBM C to me. The 10 in version is in the catalog for 1970. This example is 9000 units into the run, so this is probably a 1971.

They sold a lot of these. They are solid machines that are often used and abused. This one fit the profile. It was loaded with oil, grease, cat hair, and whiteout. It eventually quit. The belts were oily, slipping, and two typebars were freewheeling. I thought that'd be the typical clevis, but the short links at the lower segment were off. How that could happen beats me. Maybe something fell down there and jammed it up? Anyway, some significant disassembly of the lower segment was needed to get them reattached without bending the cam trip side of things.

A bright sunny day, but not hot, so a long UV treatment was perfect.

1971 Sears Celebrity Power 12 #S6LL109637G

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Hunter: James Grooms (jgrooms)
Created: 05-10-2026 at 03:52PM
Last Edit: 05-11-2026 at 06:00AM

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This model is essentially a stripped-down SC Electra 220. Gone are the changeable type slugs, power spacer, and half space key. What you do get is an easy-to-remove body, which includes a carriage panel that can be unscrewed for service. Gone are the hard-to-deal-with springs that hold most of these panels on.

New for 1971 by the ads and the F/W catalog. Looks like a miniature IBM C to me. The 10 in version is in the catalog for 1970. This example is 9000 units into the run, so this is probably a 1971.

They sold a lot of these. They are solid machines that are often used and abused. This one fit the profile. It was loaded with oil, grease, cat hair, and whiteout. It eventually quit. The belts were oily, slipping, and two typebars were freewheeling. I thought that'd be the typical clevis, but the short links at the lower segment were off. How that could happen beats me. Maybe something fell down there and jammed it up? Anyway, some significant disassembly of the lower segment was needed to get them reattached without bending the cam trip side of things.

A bright sunny day, but not hot, so a long UV treatment was perfect.

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