1975 Adler Tippa S #5984614

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Jonas Lauritsen (legofanatikeren)
Created: 05-12-2024 at 05:17AM
Last Edit: 05-12-2024 at 05:23AM

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Got this machine as part of a bundle of 3, for a total price of around $35.

It's a Danish keyboard, original feet intact, with no functional defects (except maybe 1, but I'll get back to that), original case, original spools, a faded but wet ribbon, and one interesting detail is that instead of raising the basket/carriage, it instead lowers the basket when using Shift. The serial number is spottet by looking directly through the keyboard to the bottom of the typewriter.

The build of the machine itself is fine, though there was about half a dozen very small plastic bits broken off the yellow frame and the bezel of the black case-bottom rim, that was left to rattle around in the typewriter bottom. Clearly, the plastic body and case was not up the abuse it's probably seen through 40+ years, and I've heard similar stories of broken bits of plastic covers on this model from others as well.

The main issue I had with this was concerning cleaning. Usually i do a fairly superficial cleaning proces, and plays it pretty safe. No complete teardowns and dipping it in paint thinner or what have you these days... But this time I admit it might have been beneficial to go that extra mile and attempt it (not that I did),
In the entire inner workings of the machine, below the carriage, and keyboard, there was these tiny white shavings of sorts. Trying to wipe it off resulted instead in smearing it all over the surfaces they inhabited. I have no idea what it is, but maybe some correction-product accumulated through years of use?
Either way, I cleaned what I could, and decided that disassembly to get the bottom off was too much of a hassle (I'm about 65% sure it involves removing the platen and the carriage, for one) and since it's functioning just fine, it was not worth the potential risk-reward.

So it looks like a mess inside if you look closely, but other than that, it's fine. There's those same white smears embedded into the platten rollers, the platen itself, and this leads me to believe I was right about the correction-product theory.

Now, to the only thing that may not work - the machine is capable of auto-reversing the ribbon spools, but I cannot trigger this manually by actuating the ribbon shift levers... This seems like a defect to me, maybe there's a spring that has lost tension or something. But on the other side, it currently advanced the ribbon spools, so maybe there's simply different trigger that I don't know about on this particular model. I guess time will tell.

Typeface Specimen:

Photos:

the locking mechanism

it says "Case made in western Germany"

This lever is the one locking and unlocking the Carriage lock,

Serial number - hard to get a good angle.

Hunter: Jonas Lauritsen (legofanatikeren)

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Casual collector of replica flintlock pistols, and in that same vein, picked up a couple of typewriters through the years - as a mechanical engineer, I could not resist.