1974 Brother Pro-Lectric 6213 #G4801809
Status: My Collection
Hunter: James Grooms (jgrooms)
Created: 09-14-2025 at 04:11AM
Last Edit: 09-07-2026 at 04:34AM
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Description:
This one is a TWDB first. A Brother JP-2 in one of the many configurations targeting the office compact market. It has a metal shell compared to the more common late Remington 700s with their plastic shells. These JP-2s are just solid machines. Who else offers a 10-year warranty on a typewriter in the late 60s to early 70s?
This one has all the signs of some heavy use. The literature has a 1994 service receipt. One of the adjustments was for the motion, so I know exactly who's to blame for the broken uppercase screw and the filed-down locknut on the lower screw. I guess a metric wrench was too hard to come by? Jeez. Whoever worked on it knew just enough to mess it up. They sprayed something down into the cams just above the top row of keys. This locked virtually everything up and was a stressful cleanout. If you get carried away and are not super careful, you can break off the little nubs, and that key is then dead. After getting it cleaned out, everything but the bell was working. Another ham-fisted affair with the striker rod all boogered up.
I could only dig up one ad for a 6211 by searching "compact electric." However, there are number of ads for the previous 1400 series machines.
This machine has an unusual M2 on the slugs. Most are either 2 elite or 3 pica.
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